Local Government Budgets And Financial Reports For Iowa

The database provides current and official budgets for Iowa's counties, townships, and special districts, alongside annual financial reports. It includes multiple budget forms and both GAAP and Cash Financial Reports for multiple fiscal years. The State of Iowa maintains this collection, last updated in September 2023.

Use Cases

• Analyze budget allocation trends across Counties, Townships, and Benefited Districts over multiple fiscal years.
• Compare financial performance using GAAP and Cash Financial Reports for County-level entities.
• Examine budget composition for specific entity types like County Hospitals, Ag Extensions, or Assessors.

Strengths

• Covers a wide range of local government entities including Counties, Townships, and over ten types of Benefited Districts.
• Provides both budget documents and annual financial reports, offering complementary fiscal data.
• Includes financial data prepared under both GAAP and Cash accounting standards for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• The specific number of records, rows, and columns is unknown, limiting assessment of dataset scale.
• Financial report access appears primarily limited to Counties, not all listed entity types.
• Sample data and file formats are unspecified, complicating evaluation of data structure and usability.

Provenance

Source

State of Iowa

Collection Method

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Time Range

Multiple fiscal years, exact range unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated on 2023-09-01.

Geography

State of Iowa, United States.