The New Administration's Shared Services Opportunity

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John Marshall

The shared services revolution began in the late 1980s with the adoption of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software packages by leading commercial enterprises. These highly standardized and sc... More »

Quattro Punti: Four Steps to Budgeting and Performance Management - Part 1

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Thad Juszczak

Government agencies often provide essential services that no one else provides. Therefore, the managers who run those agencies need a tool to manage for results, and citizen consumers of those services need one to gauge their ... More »

Preventing and Detecting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

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John Moore

The passage and implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and distribution of more than $700 billion in funds to federal, state, county, and city governments and agencies by the Obama Administration ha... More »

Revisiting User Fees in Challenging Fiscal Times

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David Baker

The findings of the International City/County Management Associations 2009 State of the Profession Survey (covering 2,214 cities and counties) demonstrate widespread user fee interest. Among various fiscal strategies, 46 percent... More »

Primer for Budgeting Federal Labor Costs

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Thad Juszczak

Labor costs (salary and benefit costs) for federal civilian employees often constitute a substantial portion of an agencys budget, typically exceeding 50 percent of its total budget. Even for those agencies that have considerabl... More »