Vol. 23 No. 4, August 2007
Index
- We can make a difference.
- GAO predicts budget challenges ahead for state and local governments.
- Meet your new president-elect and executive board.
- Spotlight on financial performance: 2007 Annual Conference recap.
- Government finance in the trenches: standing committees update.
- Innovations in managing public funds: benchmarking and total return.
- From cash to card acceptance: transforming routine transactions into extraordinary opportunities.
- Creating and using a revenue manual: a dynamic tool for analysis.
- Municipal Way-Fi.
- Liquidity assessments: an alternative financing option for variable-rate debt.
- Auditing from a citizen's point of view: the citizen's perspective is often overlooked in traditional audit of government programs. Incorporating the citizen's perspective, where relevant, can make audits a more effective tool for change.
- City Management Institute: a blueprint for leadership succession: the City of Sacramento's City Management Institute helps it identify and groom future city leaders.
- Capital project cash flow management: using these tools to manage capital project cash flows can increase investment earnings, reduce borrowing costs, and prevent potentially embarrassing and frustrating cash flow problems.
- Supreme court watch: judiciary decisions often impact state and local government finances.
- Selling or pledging future cash flows: guidance from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board on selling or pledging future cash flows must be implemented starting with fiscal years that end December 31, 2007.
- Time-Driven activity-based costing.
- gfoa events.
- State association events.
- What transformational leaders do: leading a public organization through change requires the executive to find a way to invest significant time, energy, and political capital in the change process.