Vol. 25 No. 5, October 2009
Index
- Improving cash management.
- Citizen survey helps provides feedback on local governments.
- Karen Utterback.
- Survey outlines governments' strategies for managing through fiscal stress.
- Economic trends.
- Ash Institute at Harvard University honors six government programs.
- Toronto launches 311 Center.
- Tactical financial management: cash flow and budgetary variance analysis.
- Local government investment pools and the financial crisis: lessons learned.
- Banking due diligence in the new financial world.
- Managing technology costs.
- Repurchase agreements: a refresher course.
- The rising cost of pollution: implementing GASB Statement 49 at the Port of Oakland.
- A performance management framework.
- Learning from history: historical examples highlight the importance of looking at a problem from a new perspective, not letting obstacles stand in the way, and taking charge when the situation demands it.
- Revisiting Kenneth Brown's "10-point test": updating Brown's famous 10-point test with ten indicators of financial condition for 2003 through 2006 provides finance officers with another way to measure financial condition.
- GFOA joins sister associations on amicus brief to Supreme Court: Graham County, North Carolina asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review an issue that will have a substantial impact on local government exposure to damages.
- GASB proposes four new standards: the GASB's recent exposure drafts are intended to lead to four new statements, including proposed guidance on OPEB, Chapter 9 bankruptcies, financial instrument, and SCAs.
- Making good use of economic development finance tools.
- GFOA events.
- State association events.
- Could the Recovery Act help reinvent government?