Vol. 29 No. 1, February - February 2013
Index
- Municipal bond basics.
- New paper from NAGDCA provides DC data.
- Report suggests a mix of DB and DC plans.
- Economic trends.
- Advice on collaborative networks.
- The power of predictive analytics.
- Ideas for policymakers: industry.
- Best practices optimize debt management.
- Telling myth from reality in muniland.
- The renewed battle over tax exemption of interest on state and local government debt obligations.
- State and local government credit headwinds persist.
- Better budget forecasting using simulation.
- Back to basics: an overview of governmental accounting and financial reporting: everyone involved in overseeing or managing government operations needs to understand the basics of public-sector accounting and financial reporting.
- Recruiting and developing your performance management team.
- Reboot the mission: how popular culture, constructive indifference, intolerance, and self-interest make a better finance officer: drawing on life lessons, even those learned from television, movies, and history, can help sharpen your management skills by focusing on what really matters.
- Change management makes the difference in Chesterfield County: a well-planned change management strategy can help make a major transition successful. Finance staff can tailor the change management initiatives to the organization's culture to ensure success.
- Storm clouds gather: two fights--one to preserve the tax-exemption on municipal bonds and another to prevent federal oversight of state and local government financial and bond disclosure information--are on the radar.
- New certificate of conformance program for small government financial reports.
- Blazing a trail in publicly engaged performance measurement and management.
- Calendar.
- The next government workforce: the role of government is rapidly evolving. Building the workforce that will be needed requires new approaches.