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State Budget Sources
An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses

Alaska

This information is an updated excerpt from State Budget Sources: An Annotated Guide to State Budgets, Financial Reports, and Fiscal Analyses, a resource published by the Volcker Alliance designed to help public officials, policy advocates, journalists, academics, and concerned citizens fully understand the critical fiscal decisions that governors and legislators must make. The guide includes links to budgets for this state as well as legislative analyses of budget bills and treasurers’ or comptrollers’ monthly state cash-flow statements; capital spending plans; reports on public-worker pension funding and returns; and reports by local and national fiscal research organizations, bond rating firms, and associations of state fiscal and finance officials.

Executive and Other Constitutional Finance Offices

Governor’s Office

https://gov.alaska.gov/

Office of Management and Budget

Current and historical budget information, as well as links to revenue forecast and performance measures, and explanatory detail on Alaska’s budget process.
https://www.omb.alaska.gov

Office of Management and Budget: Revenue Sources Book and Forecast

http://www.tax.alaska.gov/programs/sourcebook/index.aspx

Division of Finance

Accounting and financial reporting; part of the Department of Administration.
http://doa.alaska.gov/dof/index.html

Division of Finance: Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports

http://doa.alaska.gov/dof/reports/cafr.html

Transparency Reports and Information

Alaska’s checkbook, budget reserve information, and payment and revenue reports.
http://doa.alaska.gov/dof/reports/transparency.html

Treasury Division, Department of Revenue

Cash, debt, and investment management.
http://treasury.dor.alaska.gov

Treasury Division, Department of Revenue: Debt Management

Annual public debt report, debt management, and capacity policies.
http://treasury.dor.alaska.gov/Debt-Management/State-Publications.aspx

Treasury Division, Department of Revenue: Investment

Monthly and annual investment reports, investment policies, retirement investment performance reports, and annual audited financial schedules.
http://treasury.dor.alaska.gov/Investments.aspx

Treasury Division, Department of Revenue: Constitutional Budget Reserve

http://treasury.dor.alaska.gov/Investments/Constitutional-Budget-Reserve.aspx

Treasury Division, Department of Revenue: Statutory Budget Reserve Fund

http://treasury.dor.alaska.gov/Investments/Statutory-Budget-Reserve-Fund.aspx

Department of Labor and Workforce Development

http://labor.state.ak.us

Department of Labor and Workforce Development: Economic Trends

Monthly publication that tracks the Alaskan economy.
http://labor.state.ak.us/trends

Legislative Offices and Other Resources

Legislative Finance Division

Information on the budget in development.
http://www.legfin.state.ak.us

Legislative Budget and Audit Committee

Detail on oil and gas revenue issues, other fiscal issues; some performance and special audit issues and reports.
http://lba.akleg.gov

Legislative Research Services

Agency that responds to requests from individual legislators for research and covers fiscal topics with relevance to the budget process.
http://akleg.gov/laa/research.php

Legislative Research Services: Research Reports

http://akleg.gov/laa/research/public.cgi

Division of Legislative Audit

Financial, special audits, and performance reviews.
http://legaudit.akleg.gov

Nongovernmental Organizations

Alaska Policy Forum

Research and commentary on education, transparency, and fiscal policy issues with focus on limited government, individual freedom, and private property; an affiliate of the State Policy Network of free market-oriented think tanks.
http://alaskapolicyforum.org/

Alaska Common Ground

Policy studies, with some coverage of economic and fiscal issues.
http://akcommonground.org

Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage

Researches and reports on state fiscal issues.
http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu
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