We are honored to announce the recipient of ABFM's 2026 S. Kenneth Howard Award: Dean Michael Mead. Established in 1986 in memory of S. Kenneth Howard, the award honors lifetime achievement by a practitioner in the field of budgeting and financial management. The...

We are pleased to announce the recipient of ABFM's 2026 Michael Curro Student Paper Award: Sewon Kim, Indiana University. Sewon is being honored for her paper, “Managing Performance or Building Capacity? State Interventions in Local Financial Management.” The Curro...

Click Here to Submit Your Work Developed and published by Justin Ross, the ABFM Paper Series is a membership service that allows the community to circulate their latest work. An important role for ABFM is to serve as a community of scholarship and shared findings....