| Description |
xvii, 370 pages ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Budgeting and Finance Administration -- 3. Public-Sector Accounting -- 4. Money and Values: Monetary Values -- 5. Public Revenues -- 6. Revenue Administration -- 7. Forecasting and Estimating -- 8. Cost Analysis -- 9. Expenditure Administration -- 10. Purchasing -- 11. Cash Management -- 12. Investment Administration -- 13. Capital Budgeting -- 14. Public Debt Administration -- 15. Risk Management -- 16. Personnel and Pension Administration -- 17. Auditing -- 18. Assessing Financial Conditions -- 19. Financing Economic Development |
| Summary |
Filling a need for courses in public finance administration, this volume provides a public administration based approach to the subject with a highly practical orientation |
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A unique, clearly written, and logically organized volume, Public Finance Administration, Second Edition provides a comprehensive focus on the management of public funds. Ideal for the nonexpert with a public administration background, this easy-to-read new edition is updated in content and examples. Authors B. J. Reed and John W. Swain begin with a broad introduction to public finance administration, including its relationship to public budgeting, the practice of public sector accounting, and the economic concepts of money and value. Next, they cover revenues and expenditures, including how they are administered and the importance of forecasting and cost analysis. Later chapters deal with such technical areas as managing cash flow, investment, debts, risk purchasing, capital budgets, and the financial components of human resource management |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1990 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Administrative agencies -- Finance.
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Finance, Public.
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Public administration.
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| Author |
Swain, John W., 1948-
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| LC no. |
96025311 |
| ISBN |
0803974051 (acid-free paper) |
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