Insights
Practical guides on PFIA compliance, board governance, and financial operations for Texas Municipal Utility Districts.
The Public Funds Investment Act imposes specific reporting and oversight obligations that every board director must understand — and that cannot be delegated away.
Read article →When your day-to-day bookkeeper and your CPA reviewer are separated by a vendor relationship, errors compound quietly. Here is what integrated oversight actually looks like.
Read article →New MUD board directors are handed a thick financial packet and expected to vote on it within the hour. This guide explains each section and what to look for.
Read article →Most audit surprises are preventable. Here is what to have ready before your auditor arrives — and what a well-run district looks like from the other side of the table.
Read article →The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regulates your district's operations — and several of its reporting requirements flow directly through the financial records your bookkeeper maintains.
Read article →Wire fraud targeting local governments has increased sharply. The controls that prevent it are not expensive — but they must be in writing and enforced every time.
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