Ken Smith

Central Washington University

Associate Professor

Ellensburg, WA 98926

United States

  • Central Washington University

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Scholarly Papers (7)

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1.

Assessing Reforms of Government Accounting and Budgeting

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Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2014
Ken Smith and Rita Hartung Cheng
Central Washington University and Northern Arizona University
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Performance measure, Performance budget

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Improvements in City Government Performance Reporting

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 10 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2009
Ken Smith and Ottalee Schiffel
Central Washington University and Valparaiso University
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Performance Reporting, Accountability, GASB, Government, City, Service Efforts and Accomplishments

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Performance Reporting by State Agencies: Bridging the Gap between Current Practice and GASB Suggested Criteria

Journal of Government Financial Management, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 42-47, Summer 2008
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2009
Ken Smith, Rita Hartung Cheng, Ola M. Smith and Ottalee Schiffel
Central Washington University, Northern Arizona University, Western Michigan University and SUNY at Geneseo
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performance measures, state government, accounting, service efforts

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Government Performance Reforms and Non-Profit Human Services: 20 Years in Oregon

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2015
Janet Carlson, Alison Kelley and Ken Smith
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Central Washington University
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government; performance measurement; accounting; evaluation; Oregon; human services

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Budgets? We Don’t Need No Stinkin Budgets: Ten Things We Think We Think We Know about Budgets and Performance

Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences 2012: Pages 53–66
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2012
Ken Smith and Fred Thompson
Central Washington University and Willamette University - Atkinson Graduate School of Management
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Budgets, performance measurement, performance management, targets, annularity, transparency

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How to Face Financial Reality: An Interdisciplinary Network Model of Local Governance Actors

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 24 May 2018
Ken Smith, John Kurpierz and Ottalee Schiffel
Central Washington University, York University - Schulich School of Business and Valparaiso University
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Financial Governance, Financial Reality, Government Accounting

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How Does the Media Report on Government Performance?

Schiffel, L. and K. Smith, How does the media report on government performance?, Journal of Government Financial Management, Fall 2006, 18-23.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Jan 2017
Ottalee Schiffel and Ken Smith
SUNY at Geneseo and Central Washington University
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media, newspaper, government performance