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Recovery Board update at AGA conference
Tags: management , Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board , Max Cacas
OMB's Werfel lays out new plan to follow agency money
Federal controller Danny Werfel to issue new guidance on measuring and fixing improper payments this week. OMB also is planning two pilot programs to improve how agencies receive and process vendor invoices, and to enhance intragovernmental transactions. Werfel also says the approach to financial management shared services is changing.
Tags: management , technology , Danny Werfel , OMB , Treasury , GSA , Association of Government Accountants , financial management , improper payments , Financial Systems Integration Office , shared service providers , CFO , Intragovernmental transactions ,
Legislation could spur XBRL use in government
Officials in the federal financial management community are continuing to watch for progress in the adoption of XBRL -- Extensible Business Reporting Language -- in financial management systems in the government. XBRL allows for the management and presentation of large "datasets" of financial and economic data on the World Wide Web.
Tags: management , technology , XBRL , Joe Kull , Price Waterhouse Coopers , Danny Werfel , OMB , Max Cacas
Accountability? There's a dashboard for that!
One of the hottest trends in the government is the rise of the "dashboard". White House officials tout the success of the "IT Dashboard", for example, in helping identify ineffective IT programs at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Several members of the federal accounting community recently offered their thoughts about the new dashboards.
Tags: management , technology , dashboards , Zack Gaddy , DFAS , KPMG , Ira Goldstein , GAO , Deloitte , Clifton Williams , Grant Thonrton , IRS , Max Cacas.
Mass. Comptroller gives Feds thumbs up on stimulus reporting
One of the biggest complaints about the federal economic stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama a year ago was that it burdened states with onerous financial reporting requirements to account for spending on local stimulus projects. But now, in an exclusive interview with Federal News Radio, the Comptroller for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has kudos for federal officials who are working with states to track stimulus spending.
Tags: management , stimulus , ARRA , Massachusetts , Martin Benison , OMB Danny Wurfel , GAO , Max Cacas
Agency accountants fight fraud in government
AGA President Relmond Van Daniker joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss the conference, the intersection of fraud and technology and how federal managers can also benefit from better fraud-detection efforts.
Tags: Relmond Van Daniker , waste, fraud and abuse , internal control and fraud conference , Federal Drive , Tom Temin , Amy Morris
Principles of transparency
Tags: transparency , tech , mngt , Grant Thorton , CFO , Clifton Williams
'Aloha' also means financial management development to AGA
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , Governmental Accounting Standards , Travel Reengineering , Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management , Financial and Performance Reporting , Citizen Centric Reporting , Patrick Oki , 2009 Governmental Professional Development Confere
Understanding new standards
Tags: mngt , ARRA , stimulus , tracking spending , accountability , transparency , Wendy Payne ,
Big Easy lessons on government and money
Tags: AGAe Norris , Association of Government Accountants , mngt




