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Municipal Finance - General
- General Accounting Standards Board – GASB - GASB is the independent organization that establishes and improves standards of accounting and financial reporting for U.S. state and local governments. GASB is recognized as the official source of generally acceptable accounting standards (GAAP) for state and local governments. It is a part of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF).
- Government Finance Officers Association – GFOA - Government Finance Officers Association—professional organization for municipal finance managers. (GFOA)
- Handbook of Municipal Bonds - Amazon link to Handbook of Municipal Bonds (edited by Sylvan Feldstein)
- The Bond Buyer - Financial newspaper focused primarily on the municipal bond market and municipal finance.
- Council of State Governments - Council of State Governments. Provides timely news on wide variety of state issues in the States News section.
- Fiscal Survey of States - National Governors Association and National Association of State Budget Officers publishes its annual Fiscal Survey of the States analysis of state financial condition. Publications listing recent annual reports.
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- Government Finance Statistics (Census) - U.S. Census site on Government Finances
- Municipal Bankruptcy — Chapter 9 - From U.S. Courts — Bankruptcy Basics. The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for reorganization of municipalities (which includes cities and towns, as well as villages, counties, taxing districts, municipal utilities, and school districts).
- National Conference of State Legislatures - National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) provides comprehensive content on wide variety of public policy and fiscal issues affecting state governments, including ballot initiatives.
- National Public Finance Guarantee Credit Sector Reports - Useful municipal finance credit sector studies published by municipal bond insurer, National Public Finance Guarantee. Visitors must register to see reports but access is free.
- Rockefeller Institute of Government - The public policy arm of the State University of New York at Albany. Special focus on state government finance.
- State Government Finances - State Government Finances gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Municipal Finance - Public Pension Funds
- Public Fund Survey - Public Fund Survey - an online compendium of key characteristics of over 100 public retirement systems
- National Council on Teacher Retirement - National Council on Teacher Retirement - an independent association dedicated to safeguarding the integrity of public retirement systems for teachers
- State & Local Government Pension Forum - Forum, co-sponsored by the Civic Federation of Chicago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the National Tax Association, addressed major issues in public pension funding, including a comparison to the rising crisis in private pension plans, evaluation of the long term costs of pension underfunding and their impact on municipal government credit ratings, as well as calls for pension reform. A number of the presentations are featured on the website.
- State & Local Government Retirement Systems - The State and Local Government Employee-Retirement System survey provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for public employee retirement systems.
- State & Local Government Retirement Systems - The State and Local Government Employee-Retirement System Census survey provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets, and membership information for public employee retirement systems.
- Wilshire Report on State Pensions - Comparative report on funding issues for state pension plans (PDF report).
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- Arizona State Retirement System - Impressive state pension fund web site
- Austin (TX) Employees’ Retirement Sys - City of Austin, Texas Employees’ Retirement System
- Employee Benefit Research Institute - Organization that conducts research pertaining to Employee Benefits
- Florida Public Pension Trustees Association - FPPTA website provides information about upcoming events, news and information regarding to Florida Pensions plans.
- Florida Retirement System
- GASB Statement on Other Post Employment Benefits - Governmental Accounting Standards Board Summary and Status Report on Statement 45 concerning Other Post-Employment Benefits Accounting (e.g. health care).
- Illinois Public Pension Fund Association - The IPPFA (Illinois Public Pension Fund Association) was founded in 1985 as a not-for-profit umbrella organization representing police and fire defined benefit retirement funds in the State of Illinois.
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