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April2011

A research section of

The American Society forPublic Administration

For more information on ABFM, visit our website, www.abfm.org

2011 Call for Papers, Panels, etc.ABFM returns to Nation’s Capital for 23rdAnnual Conference, October 13th-15th

The Association for Budgeting andFinancial Management (www.abfm.org)

invites proposals for panels, papers, andpresentations for the 2011 ABFMconference. We especially encourageproposals from federal, state, and localpractitioners. The focus of theconference is on budgeting andfinancial management at all levels of government in the United States, as wellas international and comparativeperspectives. Potential topics include,but are not limited to:

Federal and State Fiscal Challenges

Budgetary Theory The Politics of the Budgetary Process

International and ComparativeBudgeting

Budget Balancing Strategies

Federal Stimulus Reporting andOutcomes

Tax Policy and Administration

History of Budgeting

Budgeting in Poor Countries

Budgeting and EconomicDevelopment

Executive and Legislative Budget

Politics Citizen Participation in Budgeting

Transportation Policy and Finance

Current Trends in Public Finance

Budget Reform, Innovation, andProcess

Funding Healthcare

Forecasting

Financial Leadership

Intergovernmental Finance

Municipal Securities

Performance Budgeting

Budgeting for National Security

Debt Financing and Management

Investing Public Funds

Accounting and Financial Reporting

Revenue Diversification

Nonprofit Financial Issues

Capital Planning and Management

Managing Financial Risk

Education Finance

Please submit all proposals by

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Proposals should be submitted to:

James [email protected]

Department of PoliticsUniversity of Virginia

P.O. Box 400787, S187 Gibson HallCharlottesville, VA 22902-4787

Proposals will be reviewed andcompetitively selected. Presenters willbe required to register for theconference in advance. Proposalsshould include a brief description of the topic, name(s) of participants/authors, position/job title, institutionalaffiliation, address (including email),and phone number. Students shouldprovide their degree program, status(master’s level, Ph.D., ABD), andinstitutional affiliation.

The Washington Marriott will be home once again to ABFM’sAnnual Conference in Washington, DC, October 13th-15th

“Seats of Financial Power”Tour of Washington

Which buildings are these?Why are they important?Share your thoughts atFacebook.com/abfm1

2011 ABFM Annual Conference RegistrationWill be made available ONLINE at our website,

WWW.ABFM.ORG

To reserve a room at the conference rate, call theWashington Marriott

(888) 236-2427

This hotel does not provide direct shuttle service to any DC-area airport. On-site parking is available

(valet optional)




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The annual American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)conference was held in Baltimore this past March. We had a good

turnout at the ABFM section meeting. Our discussion centeredaround the need to strengthen the relationships betweenpractitioners and scholars.

In this trying fiscal environment, it is more important than everfor practitioners to have ready access to research findings andbest practices, yet they have limited time available to readacademic literature. At the same time, scholars are well-served intheir teaching and research by understanding the needs andconcerns of public budget and finance officials.

Do you have any suggestions for ways that we, as ABFMmembers, can work to foster these relationships and

connections? Perhaps you know of models that have beensuccessful. Please contact me or Kenneth Hunter if you haveideas to share with our members in the next Line Item , on ourwebsite, or through social media (via Facebook).

Are you interested in serving on the ABFM ExecutiveCommittee? We will be electing three new members for termsbeginning in January, as well as a Vice-Chair Elect. Thenominating committee will send out additional information soonregarding this process.

Nominations will also be solicited in the near future for our threeannual awards:

The Aaron Wildavsky Award honors lifetime achievement forwork in budgeting and financial management;

The S. Kenneth Howard Award is for lifetime achievement by a practitioner in the field; and

The Michael Curro Award is awarded for the best studentpaper nominated by a faculty member.

Please be thinking about individuals that you believe aredeserving of these prestigious awards. The list of past awardwinners is posted on our website.

I hope to see many of you at our annual conference in October inWashington, D.C. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about

current practices, theory, and the latest research findings relatedto public budgeting and financial management at all levels of government and nonprofit organizations. Remember to submityour proposals for presentations by May 1.

Dr. Ebdon is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where her research and teaching emphasis is in the area of local government budgeting and financial management.

Chair’s ColumnCarol EbdonSchool of Public Administration, University of Nebraska-Omaha

2011 ABFMOfficers & Executives

Officers

ChairCarol Ebdon, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Chair-Elect (2012)James D. Savage, University of Virginia

Vice Chair (2013)Scott Pattison, NASBO

Past Chair (2010)Dwight Denison, University of Kentucky

Secretary/ArchivistDonijo Robbins, Grand Valley State University (MI)

Newsletter EditorKenneth Hunter, City of Rocky Mount (NC)

Executive Committee

2009-2011 TermDan Williams, City University of New YorkBill Simonsen, University of ConnecticutJustin Marlowe, University of Washington

2010-2012 TermJonathan B. Justice, University of DelawareKenneth Hunter, City of Rocky Mount (NC)M. Peter van der Hoek, Erasmus University (Denmark)

2011-2013 TermCarolyn Bourdeaux, Georgia State UniversityMeagan Jordan, University of Arkansas at Little RockEric Scorsone, State of Michigan

ABFM aims to promote the professional development ofbudgeting and financial management in the public and non-profit sectors. Embracing both theoretical and operationalconcerns, ABFM addresses issues in budgeting processesand practice in financial management.





Director, Institute of Government

University of Arkansas at Little RockThe University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) invitesapplications or nominations for a twelve-month tenure track associate or full professor to serve as Director of the Institute of Government located within the College of Professional Studies.The position will be available July 1, 2011 and the start date isnegotiable. The Institute of Government (IOG) is committed toengaging students, faculty and professional staff in making adifference in central Arkansas and the state through academicprograms, practitioner training, applied research and consulting.IOG contains a NASPAA- accredited Master’s program in PublicAdministration, the Survey Research Center, and the ArkansasPublic Administration Consortium (APAC), a training unitoffering certificate programs for government and nonprofitleaders. The Institute of Government also contains the Centerfor Public Collaboration and the Center for NonprofitOrganizations that coordinate graduate certificate programs inConflict Mediation and Nonprofit Management. The Institute of Government employs 20 full time faculty and professional staff members and has a budget of over $1 million per year with a littleover half of institute funds coming from external grants andcontracts.

The MPA program is the largest and longest accredited MPAprogram in the state and currently serves 60 students. The Survey Research Center provides a full range of survey research services

and is the largest not-for-profit survey research organization in thestate. It employs six full-time researchers and twenty-five part-time telephone interviewers utilizing a CATI system for the 20-station call center. The Arkansas Public AdministrationConsortium offers a nationally accredited Certified Public Managertraining program as well as Arkansas Government Manager andCertified Volunteer Management certificate programs. It alsoprovides tailored training for local and county government groups.Over 1200 government and nonprofit leaders are alumni of APACcertificate programs. The Institute of Government enjoys closerelationships with state and local government leaders. For moreinformation about all the programs in the Institute of Government, consult the Institute webpage at www.ualr.edu/iog/.

The successful candidate should hold a terminal degree, preferably a Ph.D. in Public Administration or a related field, and have astrong record of teaching, research, and grant and contract work with public agencies and nonprofit organizations. He/she shouldhave administrative experience including budget and personneloversight. He/she should be able to demonstrate excellentcommunication skills, collaborative leadership, ability to formrelationships with government and nonprofit leaders andcommitment to diversity. Experience in resource development,accreditation, assessment, and student recruitment and retention

would be preferred. The director should be a credible advocateand representative of the Institute to campus and external

constituencies.

UALR is a research intensive public urban/metropolitan university located in the state capital. It enrolls 13,000 students per semester,including 2500 graduate students. UALR supports a full range of undergraduate programs, 38 master’s programs, a law degree, andeight doctoral programs. UALR is part of the University of Arkansas system. UALR supports neighborhood revitalizationthrough the University District working with housing, education,public safety and commercial development in the neighborhoodssurrounding the campus. The College of Professional Studiesincludes the School of Social Work, the School of MassCommunication, the Institute of Government, and departments of

Criminal Justice, Speech Communication and Audiology andSpeech Pathology. A new program that will be housed in theCollege and headed by an IOG faculty /research staff member isthe Shepherd Project, an undergraduate minor in poverty studies,part of a consortium of 11 universities. For more information onUALR or the College of Professional Studies, see websites atwww.ualr.edu or www.ualr.edu/cps/.

The larger Little Rock area has a population of 500,000 people andis the state center for government, medicine, commerce and thearts. It has a low cost of living, a high quality of life, and abundantrecreation opportunities.

To apply, please e-mail a letter of application, a current CV, and

the names and contact information for three professionalreferences in Word or PDF formats to:

Dr. Angela Laird Brenton,Dean and Search Committee [email protected]

Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continueuntil the position is filled. Inquiries about the position may bemade to Angela Brenton at 501-569-3244 or [email protected].

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is an equal opportunity,affirmative action employer and actively seeks the candidacy of minorities,women, veterans, and persons with disabilities. Under Arkansas law, all applications are subject to disclosure. Persons hired must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States.

Job Announcements & Calls for Papers ABFM members can post announcements for professional positions and events with their institutions and

agencies. To include an announcement, please forward it to Kenneth Hunter at [email protected].





Grand Valley State University

Assistant Professor; School of Public,Nonprofit & Health Administration

Applicants are required to have earned a doctoratefrom an accredited institution by August 2011 in publicadministration, philanthropy, nonprofit management or a relatedfield. Consideration will also be given to those who are ABD, but,if hired, they will start at the instructor level until the doctorate iscompleted. Evidence of prior teaching experience, activescholarship, and community-based service are also required.Preference will be given to those that can teach nonprofit financeand other areas of nonprofit management.

The selected candidate should be prepared to teach graduate and

undergraduate nonprofit management courses. The selectedcandidate should demonstrate potential for excellence inundergraduate and graduate teaching, as well as scholarship andcommunity-based service, with active research and serviceagendas. Salary commensurate with experience.

Please visit www.gvsujobs.org and click *Apply to this Posting.*Include a letter of application, updated curriculum vitae, and aone-page research agenda. The online system will allow you toattach these items electronically. Send three letters of reference,transcripts, the most recent teaching evaluations (and any otherevidence of teaching excellence) and an example of a recently published article or a dissertation chapter to the Chair of theSearch Committee:

Salvatore AlaimoSchool of Public, Nonprofit & Health Administration401 W. Fulton St, 250C DEV Grand Rapids, MI [email protected](616) 331-6582

If you have any questions about the application process, please callHuman Resources at (616) 331-2215.

The deadline date for filing applications is April 27, 2011.

For more information about Grand Valley, see our website atwww.gvsu.edu.

An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution

Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting &

Financial Management (JPBAFM)Call for Paper ProposalsState/Local Government Fiscal Sustainability

Recently, fiscal sustainability has garnered mounting attentionfrom both policy-makers and scholars. They have painfully realized that the structural imbalance between public revenue andexpenditure is embedded in public budgeting policies and isthreatening government’s long-term fiscal health. We are inviting manuscripts dedicated to the urgent issue of fiscal sustainability atthe state and local level. We encourage participants to address theissue from various perspectives and explore how to put state-localgovernments on a fiscally sustainable path. Both qualitative andquantitative research will be considered.

Send your paper proposal by May 15, 2011 to Dr. Yuhua Qiaoat [email protected]. The proposal should beabout 150 words, highlighting the research question, themethodology, and possible findings.

All papers will be peer reviewed by three reviewers. One of themis appointed by the Managing Editor. The manuscript PreparationGuidelines will be sent to you later. The manuscripts that arerecommended for publication will be published in Journal of Public Budgeting. Accounting, & Financial Management (JPBAFM). In early 2011, JPBAFM was accepted for inclusion in Elsevier’s Scopusdatabase following 18 months of a rigorous peer review.

The symposium time table is as follows.

Submission of proposals: May 15, 2011Acceptance/rejections decision: May 30, 2011Submission of full papers: Nov. 1, 2011Paper Review: Dec. 15, 2011Paper Revision: Jan. 15, 2012

Forum for Economists InternationalAmsterdam; September 24-25, 2011

Papers in all areas are eligible for presentation and economistsfrom all areas of specialization are invited to present and discusstheir papers. Papers in the fields of public administration, publicfinance and public management are particularly welcome and areeligible for submission to Public Finance and Management.

Abstracts (maximum 250 words) can be submitted by email [email protected]. Submissions must include: 1) name, 2) academicrank or title, 3) affiliation, 4) e-mail address, 5) category number of topic (see listing in the Journal of Economic Literature). For moreinformation, visit www.f4ei.org.

Job Announcements & Calls for Papers ABFM members can post announcements for professional positions and events with their institutions and

agencies. To include an announcement, please forward it to Kenneth Hunter at [email protected].





I am pleased to report that we are ready tomove forward on our quest to develop

recognized competencies in public budgeting,financial management, and public finance forNASPAA programs that identify suchspecializations. The purpose of this message isto sound the call for volunteers to serve onworking groups of this important project!

And, as an early advertisement, we are proposing two back-to-back panels at the October 20-22 NASPAA conference in Kansas City,one on Budgeting and Financial Management Competencies with aFederal Government Focus and a roundtable on Budgeting andFinancial Management Competencies with a Focus on States,Local Governments, and NGOs.

The Section on Public Budgeting andFinancial Management held its inauguralmeeting at the 2010 NASPAA meeting.What emerged from the discussions atthat meeting was a recognition that weneeded a process that recognized a key tension. We want to haverecognizable competencies for prospective students andprospective employees. Yet we have a wide array of positions andcompetencies required of people in our sector, and it varies by level of government (and with NGOs), and by general subjectarea, such as budgeting, capital finance, public finance, andfinancial management.

Within each subject area, we ought to be able to identify generaland specific competencies. For example, local governmentbudgeting might require the ability to develop and present abudget document that can win the GFOA Budget PresentationAward, whereas local government financial management mightrequire the ability to develop and present a CAFR that can win theGFOA’s CAFR Award.

There is a wide range of opinions about how general and specificcompetencies should be. We will have many discussions to reachagreement on a set of competencies that provide us (1) withrecognizable competencies that may hold across many (if not all)of the subfields in our specialization, and (2) a framework thatrequires programs to demonstrate that their curriculum helps theirstudents achieve specific competencies, depending on whichsubfields the program delivers.

We are explicitly recognizing that it is unlikely that any programwill deliver competencies in all 16 cells of the matrix. Rather, wecan provide programs with the opportunity to identify whichsubfields in the specialization are delivered by a specificcurriculum, and which recognized competencies will they be ableto demonstrate that they deliver for their students. It also followsthat students graduating from a program that delivers a specific set

of competencies in a subfield can present specific credentials toprospective employers when they graduate (e.g., they have

developed a model CIP for a local government). We expect thatthey will also be able to boast of some broad competencies as well,such as an in-depth understanding of the principles for a forensicfinancial audit.

The first step in the process has been to organize working groupsaround each of the rows in the matrix. I am pleased to report thatI have secured the services of four highly talented and thoughtfulcolleagues who have agreed to chair the working groups for ourproject.

The next step of the process is for YOU to volunteer to serveon one of the working groups. Please contact the working groupchair of your choice to register your willingness to work on the

project. The chairs have agreed to be conveners and coordinators.They have not signed up to do all the work!

The primary task of each working group is to engage with relevantpractitioners to identify the competencies that students graduating with a NASPAA degree (MPA/MPP) should have when they finish a specialization in public budgeting and financialmanagement. (We may also decide as a section to change the titleof the specialization based on our work, but first things first….)Your contributions to the working group can include reaching outin a coordinated fashion to relevant practitioners to help developthe competencies in your stratum of the matrix. We will schedulepanels and meetings at NASPAA, ABFM, and other relevantconferences to facilitate discussions among ourselves and withpractitioners. The chairs will be helping me facilitate the process.

Colleagues who indicate a willingness to serve on a group will beable to help decide the first meetings of the working group. Weexpect most work to be done with conference calls.

Thank you for considering to volunteer on a work group. Oursuccess will depend on all of us working together toward ourcommon end. I look forward to the rewards of our hard work ahead.

Special ReportNASPAA Developing Multi-Level Budgeting & Finance CompetenciesBy Dr. Kurt Thurmaier, Professor & Director, Division of Public Administration, Northern Illinois University, [email protected]

Local GovernmentCarol Ebdon (University of Nebraska-Omaha)[email protected], 402-444-5417

State GovernmentBart Hildreth (Georgia State University)[email protected], 404-413-0271

Federal GovernmentPhil Joyce (University of Maryland-College Park)[email protected], 301-405-4766

NGODwight Denison (University of Kentucky)[email protected], 859-257-5742





ABFM SecretariatGrand Valley State UniversitySchool of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration

401 W. Fulton St.2nd Floor, Bldg. C · DeVos CenterGrand Rapids, MI 49504

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We are pleased to announce the launch of our first Social Media site.Show your support by following and share with your colleagues.

Visit the site facebook.com/abfm1 today!

Upcoming EventsTo submit dates and “Call for Papers” announcements,contact Kenneth Hunter, [email protected].

September 21st-24th2011 Southeastern Conference for

Public Administration (SECoPA)Hotel Monteleone, New OrleansCall for Papers announcement soon!Learn more online, www.aspaonline.org/secopa

September 23rd-24thForum for Economists InternationalAmsterdam, NetherlandsVisit www.f4ei.org for more information

October 13th-15th23rd ABFM Annual ConferenceWashington Marriott, WashingtonSee cover page to review Call for Papers!Deadline for proposals is May 1st!Registration info coming soon online, www.abfm.org

Additional public administration conference datesand information available at the website for PA Times , the official newsletter of ASPA. Visitonline, patimes.eznuz.com

FEDERAL FINANCIAL REPORTSAVAILABLE ONLINE

Each year, the Treasury Department’s FinancialManagement Service compiles the Financial Report

of the U.S. Government, which consolidates theaudited, accrual-based financial statements offederal cabinet departments, other specificallydesignated executive branch agencies, and manyindependent agencies.

You may be interested in seeing the updatedwebsite for the 2010 Financial Report of the U.S.Government and the Citizen’s Guide to the report,both which can be found at http://fms.treas.gov/fr.There is a link on the website for your commentsand suggestions and another link for questions you might have.

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