GFOA Alberta and Bloom CME professional development. Performance Measures. Thank you to Jodi Brown for being a guest speaker and to the 36 Alberta municipalities and 48 registrants for this week’s performance measures webinar! Jodi, we appreciated you sharing your thoughts and knowledge with the viewers.
The first step in overcoming a crisis is understanding the importance of leadership and the critical role it plays in the successful combat of crisis. Emotional intelligence, the ability to communicate and the poise to pause – consider and not overreact. These are a few of the attributes that make a leader successful in times […]
Improving the reporting and audit tasks and processes over the entire annual accounting cycle can make all the difference for an efficient and stress free year end process. Continual improvement should be a goal for all reporting and audit processes.
GFOA Alberta and Bloom CME professional development. Thank you to the 34 Alberta municipalities that joined us for yesterday’s webinar! When developing a long term financial plan, the beginning is completing an inventory of policies. Financial policy is a key component of a long-term financial plan and positions a municipality for financial sustainability success. Keep […]
Cash flow analysis is a critical step in optimal cash management for municipalities. Being able to properly understand cash inflows (primarily taxes, utility and user fees) is necessary to meet all financial obligations and to invest for optimal returns. Check out the GFOA Alberta website and Bloom CME website.
Bloom CME professional development. Municipal Capital Budget training. City of Red Deer April 4 and 5. Last year this course rated 96% excellent from attendees! Capital budgeting is a GFOA international best practice. It is essential to have quality capital planning processes and tools for your municipality to be sustainable. Capital assets are the […]
A big thank you to the fantastic group of municipal professionals that attended GFOA Alberta and Bloom CME’s Capital Budget and Long Term Capital Plan training last week in the City of Red Deer! And a special thanks to Jeff Dyck from Parkland County for co-teaching the course with me! We look forward to seeing […]