Government Finance Review

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note: The City of Rock Hill, South Carolina, received an honorable mention in the GFOA's 2010...

The GFOA held its 104th Annual Conference, "The Finance Officer's Role In Doing More With Less," in Atlanta,...

The Government Finance Officers Association is governed by an 18-member executive board, which consists of 15 members-at-large serving...

State and local government employment is down for April through June in 31 states, relative to year-earlier levels,...

For its first several years, the Harvard Kennedy School program to celebrate public-sector breakthroughs was called Innovations in...

[gfoa events] September Desktop Training 8 What Every Finance Professional Needs to Know about Internal Controls 15 Developing...

WikiGovernment: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful By Beth Simone Noveck Brookings...

In mid-June, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) issued its Preliminary Views (PV) on Pension Accounting and financial...

Adapted from the GFOA's Generational Change Task Force Report, available as a downloadable PDF at www.gfoa.org. While state,...

TPe GFOA's Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards Program--which encourages and assists state and local governments in preparing budget documents...

In organizations that aren't using performance management, finance officers are often asked to demonstrate the benefits of such...

The City of Provo, Utah, has ken a unique approach to its budget process this year--a team approach...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This article is the second in a series on what a jurisdiction needs to do in...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] State and local governments serve a variety of stakeholders. Some of these (such as creditors and...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) recently issued an exposure draft (ED), The Financial Reporting Entity,...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Concepts Statement No. 1, Objectives of Financial-Reporting, states that the purposes...

Many people are paying more attention to economic trends than they did before the credit meltdown. The GFOA's...

Let me start by saying how proud and humbled I am to lead such an impressive organization as...

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (PL 111-203, known...