Vol. 30 No. 6, December - December 2014
Index
- Don't throw munis under the bus.
- Pension talking points support public-sector DB plans.
- Governments reveal health and OPEB funding strategies.
- Health benefit plan costs trends to decrease slightly, but not for drugs.
- U.K. devolution of interest to U.S.
- Volatility in state tax revenue led to recession forecasting errors.
- Making the best use of judgmental forecasting.
- Roanoke, Virginia, Ensures a Financially Sustainable Retirement Plan.
- Once a troubled Rust-Belt City, Duluth turns its finances around.
- Changing the game: a new playbook for government financial management.
- Report casts unfair clouds on public-sector procurement: a recent report on improving public-sector procurement practices had one problem--failing to consider how the technology sector could improve, as well.
- City of Dallas creative improvement on EMS and revenue development.
- Audit reports: then, now, and always.
- Forecasting technology: the state of the market: governments can choose from a number of software packages to use in forecasting, and choosing the right one for any given jurisdiction involves a number of factors.
- Supreme court decision could provide small victory for internet sales tax enforcement: enacting the Marketplace Fairness Act would enable states to recover an estimated $23 billion owed in taxes on remote sales each year that could be dedicated to providing and improving essential public services such as infrastructure, education, health care, and public safety.
- GASB proposes disclosures for tax abatements: the GASB has requested responses to its exposure draft on Tax Abatement Disclosures by January 30, 2015.
- Getting at the real benefits of PerformanceStat.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- Turning governments into innovation machines: the key is 'intrapreneurship' establishing a publicsector culture that rewards disruption from within.
- 2014 Index by author.
- 2014 Index by subject and jurisdiction.