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Hidden Subsidies And The Public Ownership Of Sports Facilities: The Case Of Levi’S Stadium In Santa Clara, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Debra O'Connor
Hidden Subsidies And The Public Ownership Of Sports Facilities: The Case Of Levi’S Stadium In Santa Clara, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson, Debra O'Connor
Economics Department Working Papers
Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California is an example of a private financing / public ownership arrangement. While the stadium’s construction resulted in no direct tax increases, this ownership arrangement allows the San Francisco 49ers to avoid many types of taxes on the income generated from Levi’s Stadium. We estimate the total tax savings to the 49ers at between $106 and $213 million over the first 20 years of Levi’s Stadium compared with a privately financed and owned option. We argue that tax savings inherent in private financing / public ownership arrangements represent indirect and hidden subsidies.
Options For An Indigenous Economic Water Fund (Iewf), First Peoples' Water Engagement Council
Options For An Indigenous Economic Water Fund (Iewf), First Peoples' Water Engagement Council
Indigenous Water Justice Symposium (June 6)
Presenter: Phil Duncan, Gomeroi Nation, New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council
15 pages
Contains footnotes
"OPTIONS PAPER for the First Peoples' Water Engagement Council (FPWEC)"
"DATED 20 APRIL 2012"
Abstract: This paper highlights the options for a path forward to establish an Indigenous Economic Water Fund (IEWF) through acquisition of water entitlements1 by indigenous people in systems where the consumptive pool is fully allocated. The water allocation that comes from indigenous holdings in the consumptive pool is an important mechanism for enabling Indigenous communities to achieve economic development and as such is a legitimate strategy for ‘Closing the Gap’. …
Slides: “Human Sustainability” In Natural Resources Industries: The New Frontier In Compliance, Social Responsibility, Disclosure, And Transparency, T. Markus Funk
Natural Resource Industries and the Sustainability Challenge (Martz Winter Symposium, February 27-28)
Presenter: T. Markus Funk, Partner, Perkins Coie
21 slides
Hot Topic: The New Fund Balance (2012 Rev.), Kay Stegall
Hot Topic: The New Fund Balance (2012 Rev.), Kay Stegall
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
GASB 54: Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Fund Type Definitions raises several issues related to the way cities now define governmental funds. The implementation date is for periods beginning after June 15, 2010, which means FYE 6/30/11. Includes a fund balance policy and a sample minimum fund balance policy.
Hot Topic: The New Fund Balance (2011), Kay Stegall
Hot Topic: The New Fund Balance (2011), Kay Stegall
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
GASB 54: Fund Balance Reporting and Governmental Fund Type Definitions raises several issues related to the way cities now define governmental funds. The implementation date is for periods beginning after June 15, 2010, which means FYE 6/30/11. Includes a fund balance policy and a sample minimum fund balance policy.
Capital Asset Accounting System (2010), Al Major
Capital Asset Accounting System (2010), Al Major
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This publication provides direction in accounting for and properly reporting assets in governmental funds.
Heedless Globalism: The Sec's Roadmap To Accounting Convergence, William W. Bratton
Heedless Globalism: The Sec's Roadmap To Accounting Convergence, William W. Bratton
All Faculty Scholarship
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has introduced a "Roadmap" that describes a process leading to mandatory use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by domestic issuers by 2014. The SEC justifies this initiative on the grounds that global standardization yields cost savings and an ultimate gain in comparability, facilitating the search for global opportunities by u.s. investors and making u.s. capital markets more attractive to foreign issuers. This Article shows that the offered justification is inadequate. The SEC frames the matter as a choice between two institutional frameworks for standard setting, holding out high quality sets of standards, asking which …
Slides: Energy By Design: Possible Bmp For Mitigation Planning, Dave Gann
Slides: Energy By Design: Possible Bmp For Mitigation Planning, Dave Gann
Best Practices for Community and Environmental Protection (October 14)
Presenter: Dave Gann, The Nature Conservancy
15 slides
Technical Bulletins: Gasb Statement 34, Al Major
Technical Bulletins: Gasb Statement 34, Al Major
MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins
The results of GASB 34 affect the audit report primarily by requiring new disclosures, a new required supplementary data section, a narrative analysis of the audited financial statements and additional financial reports.
Capital Asset Accounting System (2007), Al Major
Capital Asset Accounting System (2007), Al Major
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This publication provides direction in accounting for and properly reporting assets in governmental funds.
Gasb Statement No. 45, Ralph Cross
Gasb Statement No. 45, Ralph Cross
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
An overview of the new financial reporting standard issued by the Government Accounting Standards Board concerning postemployment benefits other than pensions.
Private Standards, Public Governance: A New Look At The Financial Accounting Standards Board, William W. Bratton
Private Standards, Public Governance: A New Look At The Financial Accounting Standards Board, William W. Bratton
All Faculty Scholarship
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) presents a puzzle: How has this private standard setter managed simultaneously (1) to remain independent, (2) to achieve institutional stability and legitimacy, and (3) to operate in a politicized context in the teeth of op-position from its own constituents? This Article looks to governance design to account for this institutional success. The FASB’s founders made a strategic choice to create a regulatory agency that sought independence rather than political responsiveness. The FASB also set out a coherent theory of accounting, the “Conceptual Framework,” to contain and direct its decisions. The Conceptual Framework contributed …
The Marking Of Stuart Chase As A "Red Accountant" - An Epic (1917-1921), Richard Vangermeersch
The Marking Of Stuart Chase As A "Red Accountant" - An Epic (1917-1921), Richard Vangermeersch
Special Collections (Miscellaneous)
There has been recent scholarship by Bradley and Merino (1994) and Vangermeersch (2005) on this event and the subsequent eventual firing of Stuart Chase by the FTC. Bradley and Merino’s scholarship was limited to 1918 and 1919. Vangermeersch’s scholarship was limited to two narrow time periods (Oct. 20, 1919 and then from June 1920 to mid January 1921). This piece is written to extend the time frame from early 1917 through August of 1921. This piece, not only takes a broader time period, also broadens the scope of the prior scholarship. This piece examines many documents, articles, and testimony not …
Capital Asset Accounting System, Al Major
Capital Asset Accounting System, Al Major
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This publication provides direction in accounting for and properly reporting assets in governmental funds.
Rules, Principles, And The Accounting Crisis In The United States, William W. Bratton
Rules, Principles, And The Accounting Crisis In The United States, William W. Bratton
All Faculty Scholarship
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Securities Exchange Commission move too quickly ·when they prod the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the standard setter for US GAAP, to move immediately to a principles-based system. Priorities respecting reform of corporate reporting in the US need to be ordered more carefully. Incentive problems impairing audit performance should be solved first through institutional reform insulating the audit from the negative impact of rent-seeking and solving adverse selection problems otherwise affecting audit practice. So long as auditor independence and management incentives respecting accounting treatments remain suspect. the US reporting system holds out no actor plausibly positioned …
Capital Asset Accounting System, Al Major
Capital Asset Accounting System, Al Major
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This publication provides direction in accounting for and properly reporting assets in governmental funds.
Technical Bulletins: Work Order Systems Mean Better Financial Management, Al Major
Technical Bulletins: Work Order Systems Mean Better Financial Management, Al Major
MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins
A complete work order system can enhance the financial manager’s control and accountability of any public works project.
The Case For Repealing The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, Terrence R. Chorvat, Michael S. Knoll
The Case For Repealing The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, Terrence R. Chorvat, Michael S. Knoll
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Technical Bulletins: Gasb Statements Number 33 And 36, Al Major
Technical Bulletins: Gasb Statements Number 33 And 36, Al Major
MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins
The focus of these statements is when and how to record revenue.
Put-Call Parity And The Law, Michael S. Knoll
Put-Call Parity And The Law, Michael S. Knoll
All Faculty Scholarship
A common literary theme is the conflict between appearance and reality. That conflict also frequently arises in the law, where it is usually cast as one between substance and form. Another discipline in which the conflict arises is finance, where it appears in the put-call parity theorem. That theorem states that given any three of the four following financial instruments--a riskless zero-coupon bond, a share of stock, a call option on the stock, and a put option on the stock--the fourth instrument can be replicated. Thus, the theorem implies that any financial position containing these assets can be constructed in …
Designing A Hybrid Income-Consumption Tax, Michael S. Knoll
Designing A Hybrid Income-Consumption Tax, Michael S. Knoll
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Technical Bulletins: Work Order Systems Mean Better Financial Management, Al Major
Technical Bulletins: Work Order Systems Mean Better Financial Management, Al Major
MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins
This Technical Bulletin discusses the components of both financial management systems and work order systems, and the benefits of each.
General Fixed Asset Accounting, Dick Phebus
General Fixed Asset Accounting, Dick Phebus
MTAS History
A MUNICIPALITY'S FIXED ASSETS are tangible assets bought or obtained through past transactions or events. They include buildings, equipment, improvements other than buildings, and land. In the private sector, these assets are generally referred to as property, plant, and equipment.
Municipal Budget Workshop, Mtas, The University Of Tennesse Center For Government Training
Municipal Budget Workshop, Mtas, The University Of Tennesse Center For Government Training
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
This manual provides an up-to-date look at the art of local government budgeting. In spite of the variety of local governments in Tennessee, general descriptions can be offered and analytical patterns discussed. The following topics are covered: why do we budget; the budget cycle; the budget process, including the interaction of the many role players in the process; the many purposes of budgeting; and resource constraints.
Operating Under New Laws Pertaining To Mineral Development On Indian Lands, B. Reid Haltom
Operating Under New Laws Pertaining To Mineral Development On Indian Lands, B. Reid Haltom
Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues and Directions (Summer Conference, June 10-11)
89 pages.
Contains 8 attachments:
1) Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982, Public Law 97-382 - Dec. 22, 1982.
2) Proposed BIA Regulations, 25 C.F.R. 225 and 211, Federal Register, Vol. 48, No. 134, Tuesday, July 12, 1983.
3) Billings Area Office Procedures.
4) Flow Chart.
5) Oil and Gas Exploration Joint Venture Agreement.
6) Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, Public Law 97-451 [H.R. 5121], January 12, 1983.
7) 30 C.F.R., Part 210, 212, 217, 218, 219, 228, 229, 241, 243, Federal Register, Vol. 49, No. 185, Friday, September 21, 1984.
8) 43 C.F.R., Part 3160, …
Agenda: Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues And Directions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues And Directions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues and Directions (Summer Conference, June 10-11)
University of Colorado School of Law professor Lawrence J. MacDonnell served as the conference organizer and as a member of the faculty.
Federal leasing programs, especially for oil and gas and coal, have been undergoing important changes in recent years. This conference will provide an overview and an update for those involved in public lands mineral development. Significant new issues also will be addressed.
Technical Bulletins: Internal Control And Fiscal Compliance Questionnaire For Municipalities In Tennessee, Jim Leuty, Mike Pentecost
Technical Bulletins: Internal Control And Fiscal Compliance Questionnaire For Municipalities In Tennessee, Jim Leuty, Mike Pentecost
MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins
The following questionnaire was designed by the State Comptroller's Office and is used by your independent auditor in evaluating the city's system each year. It is recommended that city personnel use the questionnaire to conduct a self-evaluation at various times during the year to help improve internal control and reduce audit exceptions.
Report No. 27
Accounting Procedures For State Street Aid Funds, William T. Chaffin
Accounting Procedures For State Street Aid Funds, William T. Chaffin
MTAS History
Public Chapter No. 1 of the 1953 General Assembly, effective July 1, 1953, grants to municipalities the proceeds of one cent of the state gasoline tax. The enabling act, however, restricts expenditures to street aid purposes and puts forth various requirements that municipalities must meet related to financial and accounting procedures.
Manual Of Accounts For Tennessee Municipalities, W. Harold Read, William R. Snodgrass
Manual Of Accounts For Tennessee Municipalities, W. Harold Read, William R. Snodgrass
MTAS Publications: Full Publications
Proper municipal accounting is basic to efficient city administration. Hence, if good municipal government is to prevail, the accounting system must be so designed and operated as to produce the required fiscal information. For this reason the Municipal Technical Advisory Service is grateful for the opportunity to make available to municipal finance officers and other officials in Tennessee this publication, a "Manual of Accounts." The manual is the first of a series of important technical publications in this field; two others now in preparation are scheduled for publication within the coming year.