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    Our Fleet Services is set up as an internal service fund. We use Excel for a lot of our tracking. Expenditures are passed along based on the type of expense: Lease payments for leased vehicles are directly allocated to the using department. If they ...

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    RE: Availability Period

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    We use 60 days. Even with reimbursement-type grants, vendors typically still need to be paid promptly. Some agencies put into their contracts with subrecipients that the subrecipient only gets paid after the primary grant recipient gets paid (usually ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Several years ago, I became certified as an RPA developer from one of the RPA companies out there, though I have mostly used it in my personal life. I have seen several real examples where RPA technology could be cost effective in local government to ...

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    Tax Collections -

    Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    Can someone give me their procedure on cashing out the registers and batches in the tax office. T We are open from 8:30 until 4:30. I require the clerks to keep the drawers and batches open until 4:30. Do any of you close a batch earlier ...

  • Posted in: General GFOA Forum

    We have not utilized RPA at my agency. However, I worked in Fintech prior and we did utilize RPA for tasks. To identify candidates for RPA, there was a browser extension that was installed on all bookkeepers computers that analyzed their workflows and ...

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