The Hard Truth on Soft Assets
By Justin Marlowe
GFR: October 2024
A Game Plan for Better Budgeting
How finance officers can better understand power dynamics in the budget process to facilitate better decision making.
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The full issue of the October 2024 Government Finance Review is available to read electronically. Individual articles are available for download below.
A Game Plan for Better Budgeting
How finance officers can strategically navigate common political power plays and use their own power constructively to promote ideas for better financial management by Shayne Kavanagh and Andrew Kleine.
Accounting and Financial Reporting
A Vision for Next Generation Financial Reporting
How technology offers a chance to rethink the status quo and deliver greater value to the audiences of local government financial reporting
Budgeting and Forecasting
The End of Esser
School districts navigate the ESSER fiscal cliff by Isabel Mu
Uniform Grants Guidance
Sweeping and welcomed changes in 2024 by Emily Brock and Todd Buikema.
ERP Systems and Technology
Building an AI-Ready Government
How cities and counties can think proactively and prepare for generative AI
By Micah Gaudet
The Drive to Improve Public Sector Lease Management
By Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene
Getting a Makeover
GASB Spruces Up a Quarter-Century Old Financial Reporting Model Without Disruptive Change by Michele Mark Levine
Leadership, Ethics, and Trust
Q&A with David Weiser
Mike Mucha, spoke with David Weiser, the assistant director of finance for the City of Henderson, Nevada,
Leadership, Ethics, and Trust
Defining DEI
How five governments define the meaning of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), and the unique ways they are pursuing equity goals in their decision-making by Kevin Bain, Johnny R. Taylor, Jr., Lola Oyeyemi, and Erica Gilmore
Managing Capital Assets
The importance of lifecycle assessments by Collin Boothe, Brian Kennedy, Ashay Prabhu, and Kyle Wedberg
Bridging Infrastructure Deficits
A Playbook for Sustainable Financial Strategy by Charles Francis
Publisher: Chris Morrill
Editor in Chief: Michael J. Mucha
Managing Editor: Marcy Boggs
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