Please join us for the 2023 Annual Statewide Conference, April 2-5, 2023. The conference committee is planning for a knowledgeable list of presenters with progressive programming to meet your current challenges, and to prepare for the future in government finance. Speakers will challenge us to think differently as we share the advances from this past year, and provide education based on our mission to “enhance the education and developme...

GFOA’s 116th Annual Conference is the premier networking and educational event in public finance. Join us this year in Austin, Texas, June 5-8, to connect with thousands of finance officers and other finance professionals from around the United States and Canada. After two years of virtual conferences, we’re excited to be returning to an in-person event for GFOA’s 116th Annual Conference, June 5–8, 2022, at the Austin C...

Details: The scope of public sector external financial reporting often extends beyond the reporting government to encompass one or more additional legally-separate organizations. This seminar examines the scope of the public sector financial reporting entity. Who Will Benefit: Accounting and auditing professionals Learning Objectives: Understand the criteria used in establishing a primary government’s financial accountability for a poten...

While the focus of this webinar will be on understandability and usability criterion within the GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Awards program, an emphasis will be placed on improving on improving all areas of communication, presentation, and process within the budget. This sixty minute course combines lecture, panel discussion, examples, and polling questions. Who Will Benefit: CFO/Finance Director, Budget Manager, Budget Analy...

There are few projects that local governments will take on that reach the size, scope, and complexity of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. Not only do ERP projects touch just about everything and everyone in the organization, they also can represent significant change for an organization. ERP projects are expensive requiring investments not only in dollars, but in time, creating the expectation that governments will see sig...

The public sector environment is fundamentally different from that in which private-sector organizations operate, thus different accounting and financial reporting practices have developed for governments. This two-hour internet training will provide a basic introduction to the conceptual and practical ways in which generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for governments differs from that used for private companies. It will familiarize...

Join MD GFOA at their 2019 Annual Summer Conference in Ocean City, Maryland June 19-21, 2019 See our website for details and how to register

The VGFOA 2019 Spring Conference will be held at the Hilton Norfolk The Main Hotel in Norfolk, VA on May 8-10, 2019. Click Here for additional conference information. Registration is now open for the VGFOA 2019 Spring Conference. Registration for the conference must be completed prior to making hotel reservations. Once you register for the conference, you will receive an email confirmation of your registration that will include further instruc...

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Register today for GFOA’s 108th annual conference, The Future of Government Finance, on May 18-21, 2014, at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cy Wakeman to deliver Tuesday keynote address to GFOA conference delegates Top reasons to attend: Technical sessions (including in-depth preconference seminars) that offer comprehensive coverage of all the latest developments, trends, and best practices in each major face...