Vol. 21 No. 5, October 2005
Index
- Best practices in collections and disbursements.
- GFOA invites you to contribute to special issue of Government Finance Review.
- Fitch Ratings weighs in on credit implications of GASB 45.
- Technology spending to accelerate over next 5 years.
- State budgets in best shape in last five years.
- NLC: city officials disappointed with counterparts at federal, state levels.
- Recent releases.
- Cash management technology in state and local government: results of a GFOA/JPMorgan Chase survey.
- Hold the paper! Strategies for automating vendor payments.
- Billing and payment options for local governments.
- Beyond total return: using a fiduciary standard to evaluate investment performance.
- It's not selling out! Why and how cities should pursue corporate sponsorships.
- New guidelines for writing or revising your pension plan's investment policy: the recent GFOA recommended practice on investment policies for deferred compensation plans and the associated policy checklist offer useful guidance and tools for either developing policies from scratch or reevaluating existing policies.
- Moving up or moving on: advice on how to get that next job: technical skills alone are not enough to propel you to the upper echelons of local government management and finance. Learn what today's employers are looking for and how you can best position yourself for a promotion or new job.
- Editorial calendar.
- GFOA and the evolution of performance measurement in government: through the years, performance measurement has defied the fate of both generals and other management reforms--it has neither died nor faded away, and, in fact, remains an effective management tool and the source of much innovation in government.
- State, federal lawmakers moving to curb eminent domain powers: the Supreme Court's June ruling that local governments can use their power of eminent domain for the purpose of economic development has unleashed a legislative backlash from state and federal lawmakers, both Republican and Democrat.
- New GASB standard on termination benefits: despite certain similarities, there is at least one crucial difference between postemployment benefits and termination benefits: the cost of postemployment benefits is properly recognized over an employee's active service, whereas the cost of termination benefits is not.
- Transformation takes more than technology.
- Calendar.
- Addictive, expensive, dangerous--'The Great American Jobs Scam'.