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| Federal employees receive a congressional apology |
The underlying theme emerging from The Partnership for Public Service’s awards breakfast for its annual “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government,” was that the work of federal employees not only mattered, it deserves more acknowledgment and fast. That led to an apology from one member of Congress. |
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The mission imperative: Securing the homeland through improved collaboration and engagement across the enterprise |
The inaugural survey of the five-year 20/20 Project on the Homeland Security Enterprise, sponsored and led by the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council and Grant Thornton LLP, presents a snapshot of the current state of the homeland security enterprise and establishes a baseline for use in assessing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations, from front-line activities to mission support functions. The survey and the analysis in the report capture progress made since DHS’s establishment and assess the Department’s ability to confront challenges in the future.
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| 2016 Presidential Transition Already Under Way, Think Tank Says |
With surveys showing trust in government at record lows, it’s not too early to begin an orderly and nonpartisan transition to the next presidential administration and begin rebuilding faith in agencies, an array of experienced federal officials told a conference on Thursday. |
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Global survey finds transformative practices in government public financial management but improvements are still needed to sustain them |
A global survey of Public Financial Management (PFM) leaders by Grant Thornton International, in association with the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM) along with MIT Center for Finance and Policy, finds innovative, transformative practices in government public financial management are being sustained, but that improvements are still needed.
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The government paid $80 million last year for feds to stay home, new analysis reveals |
The government’s largest agencies paid out more than $80 million last year for thousands of employees to sit home for a month and longer while they faced allegations of misconduct, a system a senior lawmaker denounced as “ripe for abuse.” |
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Decision Time for Chief Financial Officers: Be Tacticians or Strategists |
Twenty-five years after the CFO Act sought to modernize financial reporting, chief financial officers find it tough to recruit qualified analysts, integrate their data systems and maintain clarity on their roles within their agencies, a report released Tuesday found. |
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David Haun: A long view of federal management |
You learn a thing or two after 35 years in federal management. David Haun led efforts at the Office of Management and Budget during creation of the Homeland Security Department. More recently, he's managed OMB's oversight portfolio for departments that together spend $150 billion a year. He's received just about all the awards a career civil servant can. Now he's joined the public sector practice at Grant Thornton and Thursday joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share what big management hurdles remain for the federal government. |
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SEC Pressured to Standardize Financial Reporting |
Among the best ways to head off the next Enron or Bernie Madoff-level financial fraud, according to a pair of lawmakers, is to require federal regulators to more fully embrace consistent data formats for the information they collect on financial transactions. |
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