planning budgeting and financial management in local government

... budgeting under financial stress Part II focuses on financial management with an emphasis on accounting, auditing, and financial reporting; financial management practices; and financial management ... involving accounting, auditing, and financial reporting With the introduction of the double-entry accounting system and formal reporting procedures some years ago, government accounting and financial ... Budgeting in Lincoln County"), to strategic budgeting ("Strategic Planning and Budgeting in the "New Texas:" Putting Service Efforts and Accomplishments to Work"), to outcome-based budgeting ("Transition...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... Inc Budgeting and Financial Operation Important Terminology and Standards TO PREPARE A BUDGET THAT IS REASONABLE, accurate, and understandable, a working knowledge of terminology and accounting ... Disclaimer xv Chapter Budgeting and Financial Operation Chapter Cash vs Accrual Accounting 13 Chapter Basic Accounting and Financial Operations 45 Chapter Effective Use of Footnotes and Financial Ratio ... called continuous budgeting You should review this handbook in its entirety before you implement your financial management system The processes and forms herein are interdependent and must be...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 00:32

... extensive local government experience gained from working for 20 years in town planning, corporate planning, and IT roles On leaving local government in 1988, he joined Bull Information Systems as a local ... Government Management Board Local Government Special Interest Group Local Government Training Board Light Detection and Ranging Local Land Charges Local Land and Property Gazetteer Land and Property ... Background to Geographic Information Management in Local Government Why a Book on Geographic Information Management (GIM) in Local Government? What Is Geographic Information (GI) and How Does It Relate...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... production, planning activities (particularly constraint mapping), and maintaining land and property records Other uses included: • Zoning, calculating road lengths and parking areas for consultation and ... grounds maintenance, raising histories for planning applications, land charges searching, logging potentially contaminated land, recording listed buildings and ancient monuments, handling TPOs, and ... logging litter and street cleansing complaints (for monitoring contractors’ performance, identifying and recording residual housing land, recording conservation area boundaries, maintaining sewer...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... applications and local land charges • Planning constraint and policy areas; land use and terrain analysis • Asset management, including grounds and roadside maintenance • Identifying unused, underused, ... drivers for changing GIM in local government These arise from both internal and external sources ©2004 by CRC Press LLC The internal drivers include: • The increasingly commercial and business-like ... users in local government historically have been concentrated in the planning, engineering, and estates services, it is hardly surprising that GIS have been used to greatest effect in the following...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... applied in local government: • • • • • • • Measuring lengths, perimeters, and areas Performing queries on a database Buffering and neighborhood functions Integrating data using overlays Interpolating ... buildings and vegetation This detail is provided by laser scanning and is invaluable when used in applications such as line-of-sight modeling, flood risk analysis, and woodland management Finally, ... monitor progress, see the planning constraints affecting the application, examine the listings of all the statutory consultees and neighbors consulted, and link into the drawings on the register The...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... the cost of buying, installing, and maintaining the software locally as well as having ready access to up-to-date data and programs dramatic growth of the networked PC between 1995 and 2000 — a ... Sedgemoor City of Nottingham Hackney and Redbridge Babergh and Wealden Wigan, Bromley, Cumbria, Sunderland, Birmingham Richmond Edinburgh Purpose Contaminated land Planning, land charges, electoral ... Continued improvements in computing processing speeds and storage capacity • Growing number of handheld devices, personal systems controlled by individuals, and increasing miniaturization (e.g.,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... Services and Policy Areas for GIS Application Local land charges Planning Council-owned property Planning Building control Environmental health Local land charges Shoreline management Deprivation Land ... education as the initial “killer” application for use as a showcase to others Land terrier Local land charges Planning Highways Customer relations management Local land charges Planning Grounds Highways ... background of GIM, the principles that underpin its application, and the key areas of use within local government Part of this book contains nine detailed case studies of how individual local authorities...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... development planning, landscaping, and property management) • MapInfo (36+ licenses) within neighborhood and housing services and environment, transport, and leisure (for map production and general business ... principles for the management and sharing of spatial data within the council and introduced mandatory requirements that all new computer systems holding land and property information should interface ... geographic information group (GIG), again at second tier It was responsible for setting the overall strategy for, and coordinating the management of, land and property information within the council and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... workstations, training, and development, including the installation of further seats within the highways and transportation division Rich in CAD, 3-D, and solid modeling functionality, the Intergraph ... and ensure proper control and coordination Disappointingly, this group never met again after its inaugural meeting, with senior management representatives becoming preoccupied with reorganizing ... three main phases: Stage (1980s to early 1990s) — Piloting and rejection of IBM’s mainframe GFIS in the 1980s, followed by initial interest, then waning commitment to Intergraph’s Microstation in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... a UPRN and an associated grid reference, and which was intended initially to support the business systems for rating, planning, local land charges, and housing rents The UPRN was held in the ... planning and building regulations applications processing and some specialized housing functions such as painting and maintenance scheduling Over this period, the LAMIS hub file continued to be maintained ... the links to the business systems (rating, planning, local land charges, and housing rents) became protracted and fraught with difficulties The wide-reaching nature of the project made ongoing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... areas, in particular contracts management (grass cutting, street cleaning, and litter picking), insurance records, and the introduction of a business processing system linked to GIS for building ... implemented (using ESRI’s LPG Tools) and dynamically interfaced to the planning, property management, and LLC systems (with half hourly updates of change data to the planning and property systems; and overnight ... planning, property management, and LLC New processing systems for LLC and property management, linked to GIS, were implemented from CAPS (the local government application software house within...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... within environmental health, planning, and building control services for corporate map management and data capture, one ArcView license in environment and street scene for shoreline management, and ... and processing systems currently linked to GIS are planning applications, building regulation applications, and the planning system property database using ADDRESS-POINT This is currently being ... server intranet database Using GIS, it is possible to find both the planning and building control applications within any selected area Figure 14.1 illustrates this by showing planning and building...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... GIS (and directly in line with Sysdeco’s product strategy), MapInfo was introduced to coexist with Sysdeco Records as a user-friendly tool for viewing and analyzing data captured and maintained ... processing of planning applications, which is a highly spatial activity • Political interest in improving the processing of local land charges searches and enquiries, with the target (achieved in ... captured for current planning applications and enabled the rapid identification of relevant planning constraints Over this period, the information services team took the lead in beginning the migration...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... (1998) — Links from GGP to planning and land charges systems created Chief executive’s department starts to use GIS for community safety, emergency planning, and insurance and risk management ... developing and maintaining a local substance misuse database, as required by the white paper Tackling Drugs Together, with the objective of assessing the nature and scale of local drug problems in ... property database has enabled standardization of the definition of “land and property units” within the planning and land charges systems The database is not BS7666-compliant, and the council does not...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... (ADDRESS-POINT, Landline, and Boundary Line products) Inadequate understanding and support from GIS suppliers Practical Benefits from GIS • • • • • • • Estimated £100,000 per annum saving on map ... within Powys County Council has continued to consolidate and expand Use of the analysis facilities within GIS have been extended by MapInfo software add-ons that have included 3-D modeling and line-of-sight ... teachers, training at least one teacher in each school and providing ongoing advice Moving GIS into the school environment was not without its problems The cost of implementation was always going to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... exclusion, and issues involving other organizations and often focusing on particular client groups Handling these issues, again, involves changes in both business processes and the sharing of data ... for wiring cities (or rather not wiring them because these technologies are wireless) and the opportunities for using this infrastructure for urban planning and management are mind-boggling One ... using e-mail and the Internet Many still want to retain the personal touch by sending letters and making visits or phone calls Nevertheless, the potential to increase public involvement in local...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... needs, and values are incorporated into government and corporate decision making.‘24; and ‗the processes in which individuals, groups, and organizations have the opportunity to participate in making ... process of local law-making and introduces the experiences of Canada and South Africa in implementing public participation in the law-making process Chapter outlines research methods approach and the ... by questionnaires and interviews with residents5 and officials6 to understand the reality of people‘s involvement in the process of making provincial laws in Dong Nai Province in addition to learn...

Ngày tải lên: 21/05/2016, 22:13

... three sections: financial planning, financial implementation, and financial reporting and analysis In the financial planning section, the focus is on how to project and develop financial resources ... Concepts and the Tool What Is Financial Condition Analysis? Determining Measures in FCA Identifying Any Warning Trend of Deteriorating Financial Condition Specifying the Relationship Explaining the ... During my decadelong teaching experience on financial management and budgeting, I have learned that two things really stimulate student learning One is an instructor’s interest in student learning...

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