GFOA of the US & Canada

Awards for Recognition

Join the thousands of your peers and become a participant or reviewer in GFOA’s awards programs today! The GFOA has established several highly regarded professional recognition programs to encourage and assist state and local governments of all types and sizes to improve the quality of their financial management and to recognize their achievement, including GFOA’s new Certificate of Conformance Program for Small Government Annual Financial Reports. For more information on participant and reviewer opportunities for each program, click on the links below.

• Canadian Award for Financial Reporting (CAnFR Program)

• Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting (CAFR Program)

• Certificate of Conformance Program for Small Government Annual Financial Reports (Certificate of Conformance Program)

• Distinguished Budget Presentation Award (Budget Awards Program)

• Popular Annual Financial Reporting Award (PAFR Program)

• Awards for Excellence in Government Finance (recognizing innovations in government finance)

GFOA Project to Enhance Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for Schools

GFOA has begun a project to update and enhance its Distinguished Budget Presentation Award Program to incorporate resource allocation best practices specific for K-12 school districts and community colleges. As part of this project award criteria for K-12 and community colleges will be updated for budgets prepared for the 2016-2017 fiscal year.

More information on the project.