Vol. 28 No. 3, June 2012
Index
- Managing the issues.
- Paper looks at how localities are reinventing themselves.
- Survey asks about the state of infrastructure.
- Economic trends.
- Barbara Weiss.
- Tax Foundation examines location.
- Assessing your financial management acumen: the City of Roanoke's experience with the new GFOA-CIPFA FM model.
- The effect of fiscal health on innovation in cities.
- Risk: the University of California ERM program reduces the costs of risk and borrowing.
- The GASB's preliminary views on economic condition reporting: financial projections: securities law concerns with bond disclosure documents.
- The City of Atlanta shares insights for increasing revenue.
- Considering local business preference policies in bids and purchases: finance officers need to consider the approximate economic benefit the community receives from local preference policies.
- The performance management toolkit: organizations can build up expertise internally and develop effective performance management systems without significant external expense; they just need a simple set of tools to help with a do-it-yourself approach to performance management.
- Compensation analysis and fiscal restraint: the key to enhancing employees' perception of their total compensation is increasing positive reinforcement and interaction with the organization.
- Using data-driven management to generate change and enhance performance: the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority's TransitStat links technology and data systems to performance and accountability.
- Implications of the DATA Act: massive reporting and oversight are obstacles to effective compliance with the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act.
- Government combinations: the GASB's proposed guidance would prescribe the proper accounting and financial reporting for government combinations and addresses how governments that have transferred or sold operations should account for the transfer or sale.
- We are of two minds.
- GFOA events.
- State and provincial association events.
- Avoiding the tyranny of the immediate: managing an enterprise requires keeping the focus on "the main thing" and not being distracted by the daily tasks and deadlines that always seem urgent.