Vol. 18 No. 2, April 2002
Index
- Onward and upward: GFOA's Performance Management Initiative.
- Bond issuance to stay strong in 2002.
- Bush budget links performance to funding.
- California City files for bankruptcy protection.
- Delaware halts development of $7.4 nillion financial system.
- Milwaukee County mired in pension scandal.
- New York State strained by unemployment claims.
- SEC study shows disclosure shortcomings.
- Slumping economy freezes D.C. income tax cut.
- States to sue Enron for pension losses.
- El Paso opts for hosted financial system.
- Houston studying corporate sponsorships.
- Judge prevents Allegheny County from throwing out reassessment.
- N.Y.C. Mayor proposes bond issue to finance growing deficit.
- New Jersey downgraded by Moody's.
- New Jersey insurance pool reeling from rising health care costs.
- States to lose federal transportation dollars.
- Town of 90 receives $1.1 million for new sewer system.
- Citizen participation: Legitimizing performance measurement as a decision tool.
- A balanced scorecard approach to performance measurement: The balanced scorecard provides a useful framework for focusing performance measurement efforts on the critical drivers of success.
- Trusting the numbers: The power of data verification; This article reviews the importance of verifying the reliability of performance measurement data and outlines the steps in performance measurement verification.
- Training for performance measurement success: An effective training program can help get performance measurement off the ground and sustain the system as it matures into a catalyst for government accountability and improvement.
- Aligning performance measurement with key management processes: Integrating performance measurement with other key management processes helps to focus these efforts on government-wide priorities.
- Motivational strategies for public managers: The budgetary belt-tightening precipitated by the recession has placed renewed emphasis on the importance of employee motivation.
- GAO limits auditor consulting.
- Increases, decreases, and deficits: The President's budget proposal.
- How and why to strategically finance IT projects.
- Calculating performance measures: A primer for finance officers.
- Winter committee meeting update.
- Performance measurement not the GASB's concern.
- Building the Future: Issues in Infrastructure in Canada.
- Measuring Up: Governing's Guide to Performance Measurement for Geniuses (and Other Public Managers).
- Accounting, auditing, and financial reporting.
- Budgeting.
- Environmental finance (Policy).
- Management.
- Pensions and benefits.
- Performance measurement.
- Taxes and other revenues.
- Calendar.
- 'Perpetual fiscal crisis' for states?