Government Finance Review
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A Deeper Understanding of Debt Management.
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The UK'S CIPFA FM model: financial management and effectiveness in public service organizations.
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Deferred compensation and other issues.
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GFOA's Evolving Strategic Framework.(Government Finance Officers Association)
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South Carolina erases deficit, restores reserve.
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Public Pensions and Employee Benefits.
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Strategy and Evaluation Leads to Trust and Better Decision-Making.
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Strengthening Risk Management Before the Next Big Crisis: A SIX-STEP GUIDE.
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"The Tangled Web of Taxing Talk: Telecommunications Taxes in the New Millenium".
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The Treasury and Investment Management Committee.(GFOA COMMITTEES)
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THE RISE OF THE S IN ESG AND THE ROLE OF POBLIC PENSION FUNDS.
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Linking resource allocation to performance measurement: a look at Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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E-Government capabilities improving, study says.
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Effective management in troubled times: members of the Florida Benchmarking Consortium have joined forces to develop common performance measures for their highest-priority local government services..
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Local government pension plans as well funded as state plans.
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Performance management and Lean: frenemies?
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The 10-point test of financial condition: toward an easy-to-use assessment tool for smaller cities.
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Women and their retirement income: will it be enough?
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Group audits & governments.
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Saying Goodbye to 2023 and Wishing You a Happy 2024.
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Managing ERP after go-live: who owns the system? Oakland County, Michigan, manages ongoing ERP system upkeep and development through a collaborative governance model.
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Simpler school financing with qualified zone academy bonds.
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Rethinking Budgeting in Action: Program Budgeting in Orange County, Virginia.
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Find Out About GFOA's Learning Pathways: Your career journey, personalized!(Government Finance Officers Association)
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Financial System Outsourcing: The ERP Application Hosting Option.
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Implementing a risk-based reserve strategy in Colorado Springs.
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Congressional year in review.
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Its Not Just the Job, it's the Job Culture: Three quick takeaways to help reduce turnover.
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Neighborhood Politics: Residential Community Associations in American Governance.
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Creating and using a revenue manual: a dynamic tool for analysis.
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Property Tax Revenues at All-time High.
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Government finance in the trenches: standing committees update.
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Cities create global solutions.
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Managing your virtual world: internal controls for enterprise technology.
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Taxpayer's Guide to the Hillsborough County Budget: turning the tide from distrust to understanding.
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Home improvement changing government business processes for good with the help of technology.
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Be Tough, Not Rough, on Your Bankers.(PERSPECTIVE)(public finance bankers)
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Cities and homeland security spending: as war unfolds, what now?
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Rethinking the Fiscal Role of the States in Public Education.
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Get the Concept?
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10 Steps: TO PROGRAM OR SERVICE COSTING.
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A Timeless Question about the Timeliness of Financial Reporting.
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Logging on to electronic means of payment.
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The art and science of costing labor contracts.
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Assessing the Viability of Web3 Applications.(SPECIAL SECTION: WEB3 AND BLOCKCHAIN)
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Survey Gives Nation's Infrastructure a D+.
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Banking bills still in limbo.
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Corporate excesses fuel regulation. (Federal Focus).
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Simplified gainsharing within a traditional line-item budget.
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Budgetary Risk Pooling: A MILE HIGH CASE STUDY.
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Local government viewed favorably.
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Economic development.
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Prioritizing Community Values in Capital Budgeting: A Case Study from the City of Oakland.(RACIAL EQUITY PRIORITIZATION)
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More good news for D.C.
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Shared services: a strategy for reinventing government.
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Early Retirement Incentives.(Point/Counterpoint)
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Public health and the leadership imperative.
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Using charts and graphs to improve management's discussion and analysis.
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Using QZABs to Improve Education.
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Winter Committee Meeting Update.
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Whose Rules Rule? When Federal Funding and GAAP Revenue Recognition Collide.(ACCOUNTING)
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Recapping the 2017 annual conference.
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HSA shift leads to sustained reduction in health-care spending.
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A national survey of municipal wastewater management financing.
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The role of the finance officer.
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Public Support for Infrastructure Financing: The Arkansas Bond Referendum Experience.
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Cashion, Oklahoma: GFOA's first certificate of conformance recipient.
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GFOA events.
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Cryptocurrency: Fairy Tale or Future? As crypto hype winds down, what can we learn?
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Applying TQM principles to the finance department: the city of Auburn experience.
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Economic trends.
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"State Guarantees for School Debt and the Texas Penalty".
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The Role of Government in the Age of Knowledge.
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Turning around finances means turning around people.
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Looking at What Is Driving Up the Cost of Highway Construction.
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State budgets still struggling despite recovering economy.
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Let's Be Partners.(IN PRACTICE: ACCOUNTING)
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The SEC municipalities continuing disclosure cooperation initiative: guidance on participation and implications.
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The Case for New Pension Accounting Standards.
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Report identifies 10 critical imperatives facing U.S. cities.
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Washington wrap-up: The 105th Congress in 1997.
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Pensions and benefits. (From the Library).
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10 Steps TO MODERNIZE AND MORE EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE YOUR BUDGET.
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Together We Thrive: Taking advantage of GFOA's new membership model.(Government Finance Officers Association)
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Getting to Know Our GFOA Members: A snapshot of GFDA's growing membership and the challenges shaping public finance today.(Government Finance Officers Association)
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ERP Resolutions for the New Year.(enterprise resource planning)
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Excellence in Public-Private Partnership Awards.
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Government Finance Officers Association.
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The Internet of Things could benefit education, public safety, water conservation.
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Demystifying Compliance in Federal Grants Management.
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Strategic planning: the Georgia GFOA looks to the year 2000.
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Delivering services via network-based partnerships.
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Electronic payments exceed check payments for the first time.
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An Award-Winner from 1995: Looking back at another award-winner, thirty years later.
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New York City Passes $500 Million Tax Cut.
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Consortium buying: best practices for local government implementations.
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Capital program considerations in challenging times.
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GFOA, now more than ever.
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Why I'm a Finance Officer.(FROM THE CEO)
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Building a Capital Asset Management Program.
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State Government and Economic Performance.
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NCSL: Washington still shifting costs to states.
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Seattle looking for money in increased fees and fines.
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Future cost versus market value: the great debate over pension valuation.
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Improving cash management.
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Are you ready to implement an ERP system? GFOA assists a mid-size county.
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Using Data Analysis for Better Decision Making.
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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.
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Financing the Milwaukee School Voucher Program.
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Embracing Complexity and Continuous Improvement.(AN INTERVIEW WITH TARA BAKER)
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Strategies to Attract and Retain IT Workers.
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A New Role for CFOs: Babysitting AI.(PERSPECTIVE)
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Ensuring a successful bond sale.
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Awards for excellence recognize innovative programs.
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But What If a Pension Fund is Overfunded? Can local governments put excess pension fund assets to good use?
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The Brave New Frontier of Public Sector Privacy.(PERSPECTIVE)
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Recommendations help make sure P3s are in the public's interest.
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Getting to know the most important benefit plan measurements.
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Value-for-Money Audit Evidence.
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Why Federal Grant Money Can Be So Elusive.(PERSPECTIVE)
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Modified accrual: decision-useful & accountability-centered.
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Understanding the buy side of P3 deals.
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Survey analyzes public retirement plans.
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Minnesota Comes to Terms with Striking Employees.
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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.
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Solutions to environmental finance challenges: the environmental finance center network approach: the environmental finance center network is a national network of university-based public service centers that focus on helping communities determine how to pay for diverse environmental programs.
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Auditor rotation policies of governmental entities.
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LINKING TRANSPARENCY TO SUSTAINABILITY: STRATEGIES AND CASE STUDIES.
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Understanding Welti and Blockchain Technology.(SPECIAL SECTION: WEB3 AND BLOCKCHAIN)
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From Confusing to Cringe-Worthy: Errors Made in Calculating Net Investment in Capital Assets.(ACCOUNTING)
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GASB proposal on intangible assets: a new GASB exposure draft may end confusion over how to treat financial reporting of intangible assets.
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Relationships Matter: Georgia GFA Moves Forward.(GFOA INTERNATIONAL)(Association of Finance Officers of Local Self-Governing Units of Georgia)
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DON'T GET DISTRACTED BY DAZZLE.
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Information technology and the finance officer.
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HIRE THE RIGHT EMPLOYEE EVERY TIME: Develop a Better Application Screening Process.
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Capital budgets: the building blocks for government infrastructure.
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Smart growth in Madison, Wisconsin.
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The remote sales conundrum: where do we stand?
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Public-Sector Working Space May Never Be the Same.(IN PRACTICE: PERSPECTIVE)
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Cash management reform in the Czech Republic.
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Economic trends.
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Public finance professionals predict good year for municipal market.
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Delaware halts development of $7.4 nillion financial system.
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The federal budget: connecting resources to results.
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Making investments where it matters most at Beaverton School District.
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Economic trends.
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Back in the Big Apple: 2003 Annual Conference recap.
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Obliging the Issuers.(PERSPECTIVE)
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Economic trends.
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Key features for designing a dashboard.
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"Achievement Awards".
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State revenue forecasting: An institutional framework.
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PROFILING GFOA.
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Purchasing power: The massachusetts environmental procurement program.
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Adopting GASB GAAP.(IN PRACTICE: ACCOUNTING)
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INTERNAL CONTROLS.(A BEGINNER'S GUIDE)
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Managing change in IT improvement initiatives.
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Tracking Investments: Treasury Management Software Solutions.
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D.C. Regains Control of Finances.
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A new model for fiscal regionalism: greater Racines plan for overcoming fiscal disparity.
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NLC: fiscal, economic conditions getting worse, not better.
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States tackle RFID legislation.
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Entrepreneurship, Management, and the Public Sector.
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A question of value.
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Local Economic Development: Analysis and Practice.
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GASB issues final standard on tax abatement disclosure.
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Implementation of the new measurement focus and basis of accounting (MFBA) for governmental funds.
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A great books list for government.
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Uniform Grants Guidance: Sweeping and Welcomed Changes in 2024.
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THE COST OF COLLECTION: Rethinking Criminal Justice Fees and Fines as a Revenue Source.
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The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.
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SEC Ponders Definition of Broker.
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Economic trends.
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Use of on-line technology: a GFOA/MBIA survey.
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PPCC 1993 survey results.
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Thinking strategically about retirement benefits.
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A capital idea: linking the operating and capital budgets in Rockville, Maryland.
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Going Digital!
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Preparing the next generation of leaders: many public organizations are facing leadership turnover of 50 percent or higher in the next few years. Unless we develop talented replacements, our organizations face the very real risk of failing to achieve our missions, and our potential.
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Funding the services citizens want Polk county's BFO process.
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The War for Talent. (Book Reviews).
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State and local governments revenue declines 22 percent in 2009, census data show.
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Debt affordability.
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Bye-bye, Boss: Why good employees leave and what to do about it.
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Q&A: Mike Mucha, GFOA's deputy executive director, spoke with Christine Brookshire, the deputy finance director for the City of Centennial, Colorado, about the value of being a mentor and a mentee, developing leadership styles, and working as part of an effective team.
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Brain Power: The why and how of neurodiversity employment in local government.
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Final GASB guidance on pensions for employers: GASB Statement No. 68, issued in June 2012, will primarily affect employers that participate in defined benefit pension plans. It will also change accounting and financial reporting for non-employer contributors in special funding situations.
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Americans Place Most Trust in Local Governments.
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Governments may pay for one-time use of tobacco bonds.
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A roadmap to better broadband.
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Keeping Our Sights on the Horizon: GFOA's Survey on Emerging Issues.
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Retirement systems' investment earnings off 77 percent in fiscal 2001.
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Single audit changes: the recently revised version of OMB Circular A-133 increased the single audit threshold to $500,000 from $300,000 and the cognizant agency threshold to $50 million from $25 million.
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Analyzing sales tax holidays.
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Tucson citizen committee recommends regional approach to fiscal challenges.
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GFOA events.
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Whole cities as Internet hotspots? The Wifi revolution spreads.
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New ways of thinking about economic development.
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Florida Phases in New Pension System.
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Munis save governments more than $700 billion in interest.