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Every year, the Government Finance Officers Association conference brings together finance directors, treasurers, and public sector finance professionals from across the country for a few days of shared conversation about
Year end close is one of the most predictable, and often one of the most stressful, stretches on a finance team’s calendar. Predictable, because it happens on the same schedule
Budget workshops are where the real conversation about local government priorities happens, out loud, in front of elected officials, department heads, and often the public. They are also where finance
Considering a new financial platform often raises one practical question before any other: what does the actual implementation process look like, and how disruptive will it be? Here is a
Financial system modernization projects tend to get discussed in two ways: the sales pitch version, all upside and no friction, or the horror story version, the project everyone remembers going
Every local government has its own reasons for modernizing its financial systems, its own funding structure, its own staff constraints, its own history with legacy software. Looking at how different
The best time to prepare for a budget cycle is not the month it starts. It is the months before, when there is still room to fix the processes that
“Financial visibility” is one of those phrases that gets used often enough to lose some of its meaning. Every finance software vendor claims to provide it. But for elected officials
Ask a finance director how their team reviews transactions, and many will describe some version of the same process: every invoice, every purchase, every entry gets looked at, regardless of
Artificial intelligence has become one of those terms that gets attached to nearly every technology conversation, often with more marketing enthusiasm than practical substance. In local government finance, where budgets
There is a recurring debate in government technology procurement: is it better to select the single best tool for each individual function, purchasing, budgeting, billing, reporting, and stitch them together,
Metropolitan planning organizations occupy a distinct niche in public sector finance. Unlike a city or county general fund, MPO budgets are built almost entirely around federal and state transportation funding,
