Vol. 26 No. 1, February 2010
Index
- Looking at debt management.
- Slowdown in tax collections less severe for local governments than for states.
- In memoriam Donald W. Beatty.
- Study cites risks in issuing pension obligation bonds.
- Economic trends.
- Economic crisis leading local governments to new way of doing business, survey indicates.
- Depository Trust Company to change the way it processes principal and income payments.
- The new world of selling bonds.
- Ensuring a successful bond sale.
- The 2010 municipal market: looking for the calm after the storm.
- Back to basics: what every government should check each time it issues debt.
- Calculating debt service when payment frequencies differ.
- Issuers' continuing disclosure responsibilities and using EMMA: issuers of municipal bonds need to know how to use EMMA, now the official repository for all municipal securities continuing disclosure filings.
- The state comparative performance measurement project: benchmarking organizations provide a forum for information exchanges on business practices, strategies, solutions to common problems, and innovative ideas.
- Driving performance by building employee satisfaction and engagement: good government requires good people, which is why the key to meeting our current challenges is talent--committed and engaged talent.
- Editorial calendar.
- The City of Salina, Kansas, switches to an interactive voice response system: Salina officials find that interactive voice response systems provide enhanced customer service and increased security and internal control while improving the working environment and reducing costs.
- Municipal bond issues remain popular in Washington: throughout the year, we can expect Congress and the SEC to propose and finalize significant legislative and regulatory initiatives that will have a direct impact on municipal bond issuers.
- The use of private-sector standards by state and local governments: private-sector accounting standards have played an important role in the public sector, even though state and local governments have always used different generally accepted accounting principles.
- Turning around finances means turning around people.
- GFOA events.
- State association events.
- On why producing better results can be achieved only by ratcheting up performance: when trying to improve performance, you can't jump from the nadir of the results valley to the apex of the results mountain. You can only make it up one step at a time.