Vol. 28 No. 4, August 2012
Index
- Facing the challenges ahead.
- Awards for excellence recognize innovative programs.
- Economic trends.
- Issue brief questions oft-cited pension funding ratio.
- Survey provides details on state fiscal conditions.
- Public pension plan reforms help improve finances.
- Workforce trends.
- The GFOA's new president-elect and executive board.
- 2012 Annual Conference recap: winds of change: public finance in transition.
- Internal controls: that was then, this is now: COSO updates its 1992 classic internal control-integrated framework.
- The GASB's new pension accounting and reporting standards.
- The new Blue Book.
- Auditor independence in the public sector, revisited.
- Management characteristics of highly rated U.S. public finance issuers.
- Keeping your feathers numbered: the Foghorn Leghorn approach to disaster recovery planning: having a disaster recovery plan that anticipates and systematically prepares for disasters can make all the difference.
- Measuring municipalities' use of home rule powers.
- Considering the GFOA's Certified Public Finance Officers Program.
- Diversion of waste: the business case for going green: improving its organics diversion program helped the District of Mission, British Columbia, control storm water control and extend landfill life, among other benefits.
- Long-awaited transportation bill becomes law: new transportation legislation brings increased certainty, at least for the next two years, and is expected to provide more stability to highway, bridge, and transit projects around the country.
- GASB proposes guidance on financial guarantees: the GASB's exposure draft on nonexchange financial guarantee transactions would apply only when a guarantee qualifies as a nonexchange transaction and involves a legally separate third party.
- How to operate in uncertain times.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- Investing in people in a post-scandal world: government travel is being cut, but not all travel is as wasteful as GSA's was. Training and development are essential to organizational effectiveness.