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Cash Management for Small Governments
The publication presents a comprehensive approach to cash management practices in municipalities
with populations of less than 50,000. The manual is designed to provide municipal officials with
information which they can use to improve the investment programs in their jurisdictions.
Government Finance Officers Association.
Chart of Accounts
Recommends a numerical system for classifying fiscal data used in a jurisdiction's accounting
system. Pennsylvania Local Government Service Center.
Debt Issuance and Management: a Guide for Smaller Governments
The discussion and examples in this publication are gauged to the concerns of municipal officials in
those small governmental units where bond issues are not everyday business and the magnitude of
borrowing can be understood by the average citizen. Government Finance Officers Association.
Debt Management Handbook
The Handbook provides an overview to what is involved in incurring debt and in issuing bonds.
Pennsylvania Local Government Service Center.
Establishing the Cost of Services
Illustrates how local governments have used cost center analysis to help recover the costs of
providing services. Explains cost center budgeting, the foundation for establishing the cost of
services, and presents case studies. International City/County Management Association.
Evaluating Financial Condition: A Handbook for Local Government
An essential tool for understanding and explaining where a government's practices and policies are
headed in the long term. Helps one assess how internal management practices and legislative
policies, as well as external demographic and economic factors, impact upon a jurisdiction's fiscal
condition. International City/County Management Association.
Fiscal Management Handbook
The handbook discusses, in the context of the Pennsylvania local government fiscal environment,
various elements in fiscal management. The book's chapters on budgeting and accounting are its
most informative parts. Pennsylvania Local Government Service Center.
Local Government Finance: Concepts and Practices
The book is a comprehensive overview of the many and diverse areas of municipal financial
management. It represents a most professional approach to a difficult and complex subject matter.
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