Vol. 26 No. 4, August 2010
Index
- President's message.
- State and local government employment up in 18 states.
- Economic trends.
- The GFOA's new president-elect and Executive Board.
- The finance officer's role in doing more with less: 2010 Annual Conference recap.
- Modified accrual: decision-useful & accountability-centered.
- Putting the pieces together: revised criteria for defining the financial reporting entity.
- Auditor independence in the public sector.
- Optimizing ERP in your organization.
- Why fund Wi-Fi?
- Provo brings employees and citizens together to identify budget cuts: recommendations from teams of employees and citizens helped the City of Provo make surgical cuts that balanced the budget during these difficult economic times.
- Rethinking the costs and benefits of performance management: many organizations assume that performance management is basically a stand-alone program. In reality, performance management is a crucial element within many best practice standard government processes.
- 'Once a budgeter, always a budgeter': five reviewers for the GFOA's Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program explain why their interest in and dedication to budgeting continues after they've retired.
- Innovative programs help governments cope with generational change: we must adapt our methods to best reach the talented upcoming generation of public servants and finance officials, and continue to get the best from more experienced public servants.
- Finance Reform Act affects state and local governments in many ways: the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act includes many provisions related to municipal securities, as well as new regulations for advisors hired by state and local governments.
- Proposed changes in employer accounting for pensions: the GASB proposes to substantially modify how state and local governments account for the costs of providing pension benefits to their employees.
- From public deliberation to public collaboration.
- Calendar.
- Crisis and innovation: let the bad times roll: innovation appears to flourish in agencies under extreme pressure.