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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.

Includes: An Elected Official's Guide to Revenue Forecasting, and 

Includes: An Elected Official's Guide to Government Finance (2nd Ed

Includes: An Elected Official's Guide to The New Pension Accounting

These popular booklets provide practical and easy-to-understand explanations - in plain language - on a variety of public finance topics.

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."

The GFOA's publication "An Elected Official's Guide: The New Pension Accounting" uses a simple question-and-answer format to explain the "new pension accounting" in a way that is designed to be easily understandable even for those with little, if any, experience or background in accounting and financial reporting for pensions.

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)