Vol. 27 No. 1, February 2011
Index
- Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Understanding the role of liabilities in fiscal stress.
- Economic trends.
- Recognizing the work of cities.
- Fact sheet clears up pension fallacies.
- Setting the record straight about public pensions.
- Addressing media misconceptions about public-sector pensions and bankruptcy.
- Strategies to consider as OPEB costs escalate.
- Adjusting public pension benefits in Colorado: a fiduciary process.
- Adopting automatic enrollment in the public sector: a case study.
- Measuring the health of your defined contribution plan.
- Effective implementation of performance management: where to start and what to do: integrating performance management into existing business processes allows organizations to realize the full benefit of performance management--but doing so is not a simple task.
- Unleash your creativity and make more public value: government needs to be able to respond flexibly to the many changes it faces within a new culture that supports creativity.
- Three strategies for controlling pharmacy benefit costs: effective auditing, innovative plan design, and increased focus on controlling aspects of member behavior can set the stage for reducing future cost trends in pharmacy plans.
- Washington in 2011: efforts to trim the federal budget will likely demand the attention of the GFOA and all other state and local government associations.
- Changes for component units: GASB Statement No. 61 amends the rules that govern how component units are identified and presented.
- Making change happen.
- GFOA 105th Annual Conference: San Antonio, Texas: May 22-25, 2011.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- Maintaining the public trust while making tough choices: ICMA's executive director discusses his organization's guidelines to ensuring fair compensation.