Government Finance Review

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Government Finance Officers Association
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Year 2008

Vol. 24 Nbr. 6, December 2008

Leadership makes a difference.

From the editor

City of Vancouver, B.C., a top 100 employer and leader in green initiatives.

News & Numbers

Local government pension plans as well funded as state plans.

News & Numbers - Brief article

The role of leadership in building high performing, sustainable organizations.

Leading the way to fiscal health.

Maricopa County's employee health-care initiative.

Public stewardship: building a long-term funding policy for infrastructure maintenance.

City fiscal conditions from Main Street to Wall Street.

The power of we: using shared actuarial services to implement GASB 45: the Actuarial Shared Services Project provides Texas local government with access to hihg-quality low-cost actuarial valuations, without the need for writing individual RFPs.

Best Practices

Effective management in troubled times: members of the Florida Benchmarking Consortium have joined forces to develop common performance measures for their highest-priority local government services..

[PM.sup.2] Connections: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT & MANAGEMENT

Plano's management preparation program: Preparing the next generation of leaders: the City of Plano embarked on a methodical journey to ensure it would always have capable, qualified employees to consistently provide the level of service to which its citizens were accustomed.

Management & Careers

Bank on San Francisco: welcoming all citizens into the financial mainstream: cities are well-positioned to play a catalytic role in working work with banks, community groups, and other stakeholders to build an inclusive financial system. Bank on San Francisco is one attempt to address a serious, yet solvable, social problem.

Solutions

Washington addresses the credit crisis: in addition to creating the Troubled Asset Relife Program, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 also contains tax and other provisions of interest to state and local governments.

Federal Focus

Final GASB guidance on derivatives: a number of arrangements that might otherwise qualify as derivatives have been excluded from the scope of GASB Statement No. 53.

The Accounting Angle - Governmental Accounting Standards Board

Risky business.

Operational Risk Management: A Case Study Approach to Effective Planning and Response - Book review

Calendar.

A push-pull strategy for change: one basic way to win followers is to articulate demand for change and put people in touch with their own discontent about the status quo.

Viewpoint essay