Governmental category: 327 books
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
DHS and DOJ Are Working to Enhance Responses to Incidents Involving Individuals with Mental Illness
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Law enforcement encounters with individuals with mental illness may require special training and skills and can sometimes involve volatile situations, risking tragic injuries or even death...
TAX FRAUD AND NONCOMPLIANCE
IRS Can Strengthen Pre-refund Verification and Explore More Uses
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2018
IRS continues to confront the ongoing problems of identity theft (IDT) refund fraud. The agency estimates that at least $1.68 billion was paid in IDT refund fraud in 2016. To help address this issue, consistent with GAO’s prior reporting, the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 advanced...
FOREST SERVICE
Improvements Needed in Internal Controls over Budget Execution Processes
Language: French
Release Date: February 3, 2018
The Forest Service, an agency within USDA, performs a variety of tasks as steward of 193 million acres of public forests and grasslands. Its budget execution process for carrying out its mission includes (1) allotments, which are authorizations by an agency to incur obligations within a specified...
Local Authority Accounting Methods Volume 2 (RLE Accounting)
Problems and Solutions, 1909-1934
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The book contains a collection of papers dealing with a range of controversial accounting issues which exercised the minds of local authority officials during the period 1909-1934 and the "solutions" embodied in the Accounts (Boroughs and Metropolitan Boroughs) Regulations 1930. The contributors...
Altreconomia 174, settembre 2015
Da padre a figlio
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Altreconomia dedica la copertina del numero 174 (settembre 2015) ai cambiamenti che hanno trasformato il Pianeta nell'arco di una sola generazione, tra il 1980 e il 2015. Alcuni indicatori -dalla popolazione alla temperatura media globale, dal numero di auto nel mondo al consumo di acqua, tra gli...
Concorso DSGA - La gestione contabile e l’attività contrattuale delle istituzioni scolastiche
Aggiornato al Decreto 129 del 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Manuale per la preparazione al concorso per 2004 DSGA (Direttore dei Servizi Generali e Amministrativi). Tutta la normativa sulla gestione contabile e l’attività contrattuale delle istituzioni scolastiche. Nuova edizione aggiornata al nuovo Regolamento sulla gestione amministrativo-contabile...
COAL MINE RECLAMATION
Federal and State Agencies Face Challenges in Managing Billions in Financial Assurances
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Coal accounts for 17 percent of domestic energy production. SMCRA requires coal mine operators to reclaim lands that were disturbed during mining and to submit a financial assurance in an amount sufficient to ensure that adequate funds will be available to complete reclamation if the operator does...
Downsizing Federal Government Spending
A Cato Institute Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Downsizing Federal Government Spending is a clear and essential guide for policymakers and voters alike on reducing federal spending and on preventing a massive budget crisis that could crush the generations ahead. It provides a detailed series of comprehensive and concise policy strategies to reduce...
BUREAU OF PRISONS
Better Planning and Evaluation Could Help Ensure Effective Use of Retention Incentives
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
BOP is the largest employer within DOJ and is responsible for the care and custody of an inmate population of about 186,000. BOP has faced challenges retaining staff at correctional facilities, although it has used retention incentives, along with other human capital flexibilities. GAO was asked to review BOP’s use of retention incentives...
Governing through Regulation
Public Policy, Regulation and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Over the past forty years, numerous theoretical advances have been made. From Ayres’ and Braithwaite’s ground breaking work on ‘responsive regulation’, we have seen models of ‘smart regulation’, ‘regulatory governance’ and ‘regulatory capitalism’ emerge to capture the growing prevalence...
PREVENTING DRUG ABUSE
Low Participation by Pharmacies and Other Entities as Voluntary Collectors of Unused Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
In 2015, 3.8 million Americans reported misusing prescription drugs within the last month, and deaths from prescription opioids have more than quadrupled since 1999. About half of the people who reported misusing prescription drugs in 2015 received them from a friend or relative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
These books make available material relating to the statutory regulations covering the degree of accountability required from local authorities during the period 1834-1936. The bulk of historical accounting research has focused on the development of financial accounting although in recent years the...
by Josephine Barraket, Robyn Keast, Craig Furneaux
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In recent years, the search for innovative, locally relevant and engaging public service has become the new philosophers’ stone. Social procurement represents one approach to maximising public spending and social value through the purchase of goods and services. It has gained increasing attention...
by Domenico de Simone
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Nell’accezione corrente in economia, si fa riferimento per definire la ricchezza al concetto di scarsità. Un bene è tanto più prezioso in quanto è scarso, ed è questa la ragione per cui l’oro vale molto di più dell’aria, nonostante questa sia indubbiamente essenziale per vivere mentre...