CSMFO Webinar

Budget Gameplay by Card Sharks – Counterplays by Budget Officers

a CSMFO webinar

10:00-11:30 a.m., Thursday, November 20, 2025

At the 2024 CSMFO Annual Conference, we introduced the concept of budget gameplay by department representatives who early in the budget cycle rely on certain gameplaying strategies in the competition for scarce resources.  That session led to an opportunity for collaboration between practitioners and GFOA to publish a paper examining this topic from new perspectives:  associating gameplay strategies using a deck of cards and capitalizing on GFOA’s Financial Foundations for Budgeting as the defensive playbook for budget officers.  This session, originally presented at the 2025 CSMFO Annual Conference, discusses the content of that publication, which includes associating gameplay strategies with card shark gamesmanship, diving into why these games detract from the budget process’s reputation for being fair, and prescribing some tactics budget officers can add to their own playbook to counter the negative consequences.

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Presenters:

• Janet Dutcher, Retired Finance Director, Mono County
• Shayne Kavanagh, Senior Manager, Research, Government Finance Officers Association
• Drew Corbett, Principal, DKG Consultants

Color Commentator:

• Alberto Preciado, Finance Manager, City of Citrus Heights

Audience:

• Local government finance professionals

Continuing Professional Education:    1.5 CPE (Technical)

Cost:  Free for CSMFO members

            $35 for non-CSMFO members

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