Thursday, June 22, 2017

Key Financial Management Positions Lack Nominees

  The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service , a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, are tracking more than 500 key executive...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Financial Management Conference Scheduled

The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program–a joint program of the Treasury, GAO, OMB and OPM–will hold its annual Federal Financial...

How CXOs can close the value-proposition gap

Federal financial managers received some shrewd advice last week. Stop talking like financial managers. Stop talking about clean opinions...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

GAO: Many federal financial books are so sloppy they can’t be audited

The Government Accountability Office says many federal agencies’ financial books are in such bad shape that they cannot be audited. In a ...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Despite billions invested in DoD ERP systems, few financial managers see reduction in workload

The Defense Department has spent well over a decade and tens of billions of dollars to buy  enterprise resource planning  (ERP) systems wit...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

US Treasury Publishes the Financial Report of the United States Government - 2016

The annual Financial Report of the U.S. Government provides to the public a comprehensive overview of the Government's current financial...
Monday, January 02, 2017

IG: Justice Department shows leadership for DATA Act rollout, but gaps remain

The Justice Department is on schedule to meet the DATA Act implementation deadline — sort of. DOJ’s Office of Inspector General recently ...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Sheila Conley: Enterprise risk management properly implemented could strengthen decision making

Sheila Conley, deputy assistant secretary and deputy chief financial officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, is one of 50 n...
Monday, November 14, 2016

OMB’s latest DATA Act guidance highlights PII, financial assistance

Personally identifiable information and data “validity” are the focus of the Office of Management and Budget’s latest DATA Act guidance. ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

DATA Act Resources

Information regarding the requirements for implementation of the DATA Act can be found at the following websites: – OMB Memo 15-12: https...