Welcome to FinanceNet

Your Opportunity to Reinvent Financial Management

In only one year FinanceNet has become the largest government Internet administrative network in the world with a presence on all service platforms.

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Today's Tour of FinanceNet

Mission, Goals and Services

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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT

I wish you luck as you build a new and exciting way of working on complex issues. I hope you will help us set new goals in the area of financial management and create a collaborative approach to reach them.

- Vice President Al Gore

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Organization

Established at National Performance Review 3/94

Operations by National Science Foundation

Funding by Chief Financial Officers' Council by IA MOAs

Policy Oversignt by CFOC Steering Committee

Electronic Clearing House of the JFMIP

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Mission & Goals

Improve accountability and stewardship of public financial assets by

Providing rapid access to pertinent electronic information

Establishing electronic communication links between FM staff and taxpayers across all geopolitical government boundaries for sharing information, ideas, lessons learned, successes, etc.

Providing an electronic clearing house for information on the sale of government assets to the general public

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Why the Internet?

Common media platform and interface

Can improve delivery of government services

Reduce distribution and sales costs (GovSales)

Facilitate access to government information

Build partnerships between governments

Improve intra/intergovernmental coordination

Can build consensus

Can provide for monitoring of public opinion on issues

Entire agency can connect staff on LAN for $15,000/yr (plus support costs)

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From the New "Canadian Internet Advantage"

"FinanceNet is a true indication of the future of this type of electronic collaboration between governments and the private sector."

"[Canadians] should pressure their government to adopt the Internet as a tool for open collaboration as has FinanceNet [for the United States]."

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FinanceNet Services

Private Internet mail exploders (Executive Networks) for CFOs, DCFOs, CFO Council, FFMC, PMC, etc.

Public Internet distribution lists

Internet Gopher & World Wide Web libraries

Internet Usenet Newsgroup Discussion Forums

Online, real-time electronic virtual meetings

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Government Asset Sales

FinanceNet is the one and only clearing house for the electronic sale to the general public of all government assets and surpluses, federal, state and local.

FinanceNet's GovSales mailing list is now one of the largest government mailing list in the world.

"GovSales" is FinanceNet's fastest growing segment which will increase customer bases and will reduce offering costs for all governments.

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Public Use of FinanceNet Services

FinanceNet's electronic libraries are visited an average of nearly 35,000 times every day.

3,500 visits every hour.

60 visits every minute of every day totalling 10 million visits each year.

at a cost to the Government of less than 3 cents a visit.

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Information Traffic

FinanceNet posts an average of more than 75 new electronic documents, notices and announcements every month.

FinanceNet operations staff process an average of 350 email messages every day...more than 125,000 a year.

Network usage is growing at 15% per month--significantly faster than that of the Internet in general.

Home of the only universal electronic events and training calendar

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FinanceNet is Also the Internet Home for:

• Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB)
• Government Accounting Standards Advisory Board (GASB)
• Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP)
• Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA)
• Association of Goverment Accountants (AGA)
• New York City Comptrollers Office (NYCComptNet)
• National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT)
• International Institute of Municipal Clerks (IIMC)
• Association of Government Leasing and Finance (AGLF)
• Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)
• National Council for Public/Private Partnerships (NCPPP)
• International Consortium for Government Financial Management (ICGFM)
• Auditor General of Rhode Island
• The Latin American and Caribbean Regional Financial Managament Improvement Project

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General Summary of Content

• Universal calendar, newsletters, testimony, guidance memos, position papers, etc.
• All OMB FM circulars and bulletins, GAO Reports and Testimony, Treasury guidance.
• JFMIP, FASAB, GASB, etc. courses, directories, publications, exposure drafts and standards.
• GMRA, GPRA, CFOA and all other FM legislation.
• Meeting Minutes for CFO Council, FFMC, JFMIP, GASB and others.
• Complete FAR, GSA schedule, TFM, FTR, etc.
• GPO searchable access to Cong. Record, bills, Fed Register, CFR, USC, Comp. Gen. Decisions.
• Hundreds of related FM Internet sites and resources a touch of a key away.
• WAIS index for easy searches of all docs and news.

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FinanceNet Public Distribution Lists

FinanceNet now has the largest subscribership of any world government on the Internet.

Over 15,000 subscriptions have been recently been booked to 30 public lists each targeting a different financial management topic.

Each mailing list topic is matched by a corresponding newsgroup to encourage intergovernmental discussion and dialog on each topic.

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FinanceNet "On the Map"

A feature article in the May '95 edition of "PC Computing "Magazine lists the FinanceNet Web site as the 38th among the 101 best of the 2 million sites on the entire Internet as ranked by the magazine's board of editors. A follow-up article in the December '95 edition ranked FinanceNet again for the second consecutive time.

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Independent Review of FinanceNet's Web Site

NOT JUST FOR BEAN COUNTERS!

FinanceNet is truly one of the best and most comprehensive sites on the net

• FinanceNet's real attraction is its vast array of Web sites"

• This server should be high on anyone's hotlist. In fact it could substitute for many hotlists;

• Quite a collection!

--- Jim Crawley, Editor
The WEBster 11/94

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All four major online providers, Microsoft Network, CompuServe, AOL and Prodigy, include the FinanceNet WWW page in their special list of "Hot-Links"for easy access by their millions of subscribers.

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OMB DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR MANAGEMENT

I strongly encourage all CFO organizations to provide their staffs with access to the complete package of FinanceNet services and to support these important efforts financially and publicly...

- John A. Koskinen

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The Most Important Ingredient

Remember that YOU are the key to success of FinanceNet. This is YOUR medium. Without your active participation and feedback this reinvention tool can not succeed.

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For Complete Information on FinanceNet Services

Send a blank Internet e-mail message to:

info@financenet.gov

and for information on all FinancNet distribution lists send a blank Internet e-mail message to:

email-info@financenet.gov

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