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Find Resources:  Finance & Budget

Upcoming Programs

Annual Fall Finance and Elections Workshops (last year's program - PDF file, 157 Kb)

Past Programs

Audiostreamed WisLines (order)

"Developing the Annual Budget" - WisLine, 9/12/05
"The State's 2005-07 Biennial Budget" - WisLine, 3/15/05

Printed Workshop Materials:

2005 Fall Finance and Elections Workshops - Materials $25 - call 608-262-9960

Downloadable Texts

Fact Sheet #10 PDF Icon State Shared Revenues - PDF file, 29 kb
Fact Sheet #17 PDF Icon Financial Management in Local Government: Frequently Used Terms - PDF file, 166 kb

Elsass, Dan, UWEX Local Government Center,.January 2002.  "Current Trends and Practices in County Budgeting" PowerPoint presentation, 180 kb.

"Local Government & Finance Basic Resources List" (June, 2005) - Microsoft Word file 134 kb

Other References

Web Sites:

Introduction to the GREAT software package which provides data about revenues, expenditures and taxes for Wisconsin counties and municipalities.

A finance bibliography is provided on the LGC Local Government Finance web page

Wisconsin Department of Revenue  – www.dor.state.wi.us/html/local.html – This page links you to government services and information you may need as a clerk, assessor, county official or property owner of the State of Wisconsin. Forms and publications available at www.dor.state.wi.us/html/pubs.html  are the most current available.

Wisconsin Department of Administration  – www.doa.state.wi.us – The Department of Administration is the source for information on administrative rules for governments within the state. The site directory of their web page provides links to all other State department for financial issues as well as most issues related to State government. 

Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau – www.legis.state.wi.us/lab/ – The Legislative Audit Bureau is a non-partisan legislative service agency created to assist the Legislature in maintaining effective oversight of state operations. The Bureau conducts objective audits and evaluations of state agency operations to ensure financial transactions have been made in a legal and proper manner and to determine whether programs are administered effectively, efficiently, and in accordance with the policies of the Legislature and the Governor.

Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau  – www.legis.state.wi.us/lfb/ – The Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau is a nonpartisan service agency that provides fiscal and program information and analyses to the Wisconsin Legislature, its committees and individual legislators.

Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds – www.etf.wi.gov – This is the site for the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds that provides information regarding the Wisconsin Retirement System in which many local governments participate.

Government Finance Officers Association – www.gfoa.org – This organization represents many of the Finance Directors and other finance professionals in the public sector. It as additional links to reference materials, training, and other good to know information.

Government Accounting Standards Board – www.gasb.org – The mission of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve standards of state and local governmental accounting and financial reporting that will result in useful information for users of financial reports and guide and educate the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of those financial reports.

Grant Sources – www.uwex.edu/li/andy/grants.html – This is a listing of grant sources and information produced by UW-Extension. Local governments can click on the links to find information on grants and funding which may be available from a number of sources.

Internal Revenue Service (Federal) – www.irs.gov/govt/fslg/index.html – This is the web site for local government issues with the Federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS).  

Government Accountability Office – www.gao.gov – The Government Accountability Office was formerly the General Accounting Office. This site allows for a search of Federal programs that may affect local government funding and procedures.


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