Vol. 26 No. 6, December 2010
Index
- The role of the finance officer.
- Cities and counties continue cutting jobs.
- New procedures for DTC payments effective in early 2011.
- Economic trends.
- Local governments slow to adopt green policies, survey says.
- Municipal debt remains strong, credit agencies say.
- 10 cities win 2010 All-America City Awards.
- GFOA releases new resource for recovering from financial distress.
- Getting started with process improvement.
- Labor & management: teaming up to solve budget challenges.
- Leadership in the government finance profession: a Texas perspective.
- The role of the finance officer in strategic planning.
- Eat for education: Roanoke, Virginia, provides Fiscal First Aid for K-12 education.
- Getting started on long-term financial planning: making financial decisions using reliable long-term financial trends and information is simply good policy.
- Auditor roles in government performance management: auditors can play many valuable roles in advancing performance management in state and local governments.
- Managing perceptions: how and what you communicate will form the basis for how others perceive situations, so have a strategic, proactive communication plan for elected officials, staff, and the public.
- An unlikely place to find cost savings ERP software maintenance and support annual fees: some finance and IT departments have found long-term savings by using third-party maintenance and support providers for their ERP software.
- Regulations gearing up: many federal government agencies, including the SEC, the MSRB, and the IRS, have proposed or finalized regulations that also affect state and local governments.
- New rules for special revenue funds: GASB statement No. 54 will require many governments to reevaluate how they use special revenue funds.
- Bringing probabilities into planning and decision making.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- Poking holes in Silos: tearing down bureaucracies altogether might be overly ambitious, but poking a few holes might get at the very resources agencies need to succeed.