Journal Editorial Calendar
2008
Summer 2008: Payment Integrity and Data Mining
Governments spend billions of dollars annually on programs, services
and other items. To help ensure accountability, governments need to
know that these payments are valid, correct and meet compliance
requirements. They also need to use data related to these
transactions to manage effectively. The Journal seeks articles that
address how governments can and do assure payment integrity and
tools and techniques to manage their data strategically. Writing
Deadline: March 1, 2008
Fall 2008: Accountability and Oversight: Who’s Minding the Store?
Voters and elected officials often ask “who’s minding the store?”
when it comes to government oversight. Explaining the layers and
levels of oversight is critical for citizen confidence and for
government to explain its work to taxpayers. Budgets, audits,
reviews, and public records and meetings laws are among the
important ingredients for accountability. Governments with approved
budgets, independent audits, public reporting, and outside
validation like bond ratings and national
certificates have a lot to tell taxpayers—and these tools can help
inform and add confidence to government processes for the lenders,
taxpayers and voters who depend on it. Writing Deadline: June 1,
2008
Winter 2008 : Has the Government Management Results Act (GMRA)
Achieved Its Goals?
When government agencies started auditing their financial statements
in the mid-1990s the goal was to improve government financial
management by consolidating financial systems and becoming uniform
across the government. More than 10 years down the road, it still
takes a massive effort to come up with an auditable financial
statement. Has GMRA achieved its goals? Do we have better federal
financial management now than we did pre-GMRA? Writing Deadline:
September 1, 2008
2009
Spring 2009—New Beginnings
Dear Forty-Fourth President of the United States: Here is what you
need to know about the government’s financial situation, as well as
challenges to accountability and transparency, as you take office.
We’re also interested in a study of states welcoming new governors
and the many challenges they will face. Writing Deadline:
December 1, 2008
Summer 2009—Intergovernmental Management and
Accountability
In 2007, AGA instituted a Partnership for Intergovernmental
Management and Accountability with the aim of helping the three
levels of government work together more cooperatively and
effectively. In this issue, we address some of the most pressing
challenges toward meeting that ambitious goal. Writing Deadline:
March 1, 2009
Fall 2009—GASB @ 25
As the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) marks its
silver anniversary, we take a look back at what the board has
accomplished in its first quarter century and discuss the challenges
that lie ahead. Writing Deadline: June 1, 2009
Winter
2009—Health Care Challenges in the 21st Century
Almost a year into the new administration, we examine the issue many
believe is the single most critical challenge of our time. We’ll
place a special emphasis on the impact on the states and the federal
government of providing health care to the young and the
elderly, innovative ways for measuring health care delivery
systems and the practical solutions for measuring and dealing with
fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid. Writing Deadline:
September 1, 2009
For more
information about the coverage planned for each issue, contact the
Journal editor at
mforce@agacgfm.org.