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Budgeting Is a Collaborative Effort

GovLoop

“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments.

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Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Procurement

The Procurement School

Author: Larry Berglund As part of the assessment on the ability of a supply chain department to deliver value effectively , is its ability to do so efficiently. To have an objective assessment on efficiency, there should be a set of KPIs or measurement tools to compare. Efficiency metrics examples 1.The

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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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Implementing Standard Cost Systems in Accordance with CAS 407: A Comprehensive Guide

Public Contracting Institute

This standard ensures consistency and fairness in cost accounting practices across government contractors. The Benefits of Implementing Standard Cost Systems Standard cost systems offer numerous advantages for government contractors, including improved cost control, enhanced performance measurement, and streamlined budgeting processes.

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Why the government should use more shared services to reduce costs

Federal News Network

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reiterated something it has been pointing out for years: The government wastes billions and billions of dollars on duplicative and overlapping activities. Tom Temin And I would think in some ways, shared services would be more efficient now than in the past.

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Tech issues are part of the problem — and solution — for FOIA backlog, GAO finds

FedScoop

The ever-increasing backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests for federal agencies is due in part to technological issues facing the workers charged with fulfilling them, a new Government Accountability Office report found. When we search large volumes of data, we receive tons of records back that are potentially relevant.

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Best practices for project management in the AWS Cloud

AWS Public Sector

Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. Standardizing the tools can also help improve project efficiency. Managing costs – Select tools that help track and manage project resources to keep the budget on track. Example AWS Services: AWS Budgets and Amazon SageMaker.