Handbook of local government fiscal health
By: Helisse Levine, Jonathan B. Justice, and Eric Scorsone
Contributors: Justice, Jonathan B.; Scorsone, Eric A. (Eric Anthony)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780763792305
Subjects: Local finance; Local government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Fiscal health and sustainability concepts and measures; title: Assessing the financial condition of local governments : what is financial condition and how is it measured?; title: Local government fiscal stress and its measurement in theory and practice; title: Financial reporting and modeling; title: The development of external financial reporting and its relationship to the assessment of fiscal health and stress; title: Long-term financial forecasting and modeling for local governments; title: Pensions/opeb issues; title: Postemployment benefits and fiscal analysis; title: Sustainable approaches to retiree benefits : options and implementation for program design and financing; title: Revenue elasticity and adequacy; title: Public-finance and fiscal-federalism perspectives on local government revenue bases and fiscal sustainability; title: Understanding and measuring revenue elasticity, volatility, and implications for local government fiscal health; title: Business cycle, bubbles, and reserve funds : cutback management for the 21st century; title: Fiscal stress and cutback management amongst state and local governments : what have we learned and what remains to be learned?; title: A framework for deciphering and managing the fiscal environment; title: Fiscal slack, reserves, and rainy-day funds; title: Managing investments and investment risks; title: State oversight practices, including detailed case studies of exemplars; title: An intergovernmental perspective on local government fiscal health; title: Monitoring the fiscal health of America's cities; title: Measuring the impacts of TELs on municipal financial conditions; title: The defragmentation of authority : a consolidation approach to public service delivery; title: Debt capacity, management and policy; title: Measuring and monitoring debt capacity and affordability : market- and nonmarket-based models; title: State fiscal constraints on local government borrowing : effects on scale and cost; title: Good debt, gone bad : the 2008-09 crisis in municipal debt markets; title: Appendices; title: Glossary; title: Index.