Publications

Balancing budgets is one of the biggest challenges facing state and local governments today.

As a major publisher, GFOA maintains an extensive inventory of publications on financial management and budgeting topics.

GFOA's Best Practices in Community College Budgeting provides for a comprehensive budget process framework focused on alignment of resources and desired student outcomes.

Learn How to Improve Financial Decision-Making through Better Forecasting

The Challenges of Forecasting:

We are all familiar with the notion of optical illusions, such as a mirage in the desert or the wheels on a speeding car that appear to be turning backward.

The "GAAFR Supplement" updates the "Blue Book" for recent changes resulting from four new GASB pronouncements and the March 20133 release of a significantly revised and expanded version of COSO's "Internal Control-Integrated Framework."

Financial policies are used by a governing board and executive management to set the baseline standards for how the organization will be managed financially.

This set includes the GAAFR hardcover (2012. 1,121 pp.), GAAFR e-book (2012. 902 pp.), GAAFR Supplement e-book (2014. 76 pp.), and GAAFR Supplement softcover (2014. 94 pages)

An Elected Official’s Guide to Fiscal First Aid and Financial Recovery aims to help public officials navigate through these challenging economic times.

This book explains how the budget process can be combined with concepts of IT governance to allocate technology dollars to the most promising uses and to create the management systems needed to ach

There is probably no single number in a typical state or local government’s financial statements that attracts more attention and discussion than fund balance.