Public Financial Management
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Book Description
Public Financial Management covers the five major pillars of this sub-discipline of public administration: context, public finance, retirement systems, performance measurement and budgeting, and international perspectives. This text offers practitioners information valuable in their day-to-day operations, while also providing students in public administration and public management programs with a solid foundation for their own development as future professionals and researchers. Overall this volume promotes linkages between resource allocation and "value-adds" for citizens and stakeholders, driving innovations in operations and increased transparency in reporting.
Table of Contents
THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Public Expenditure Management: Selected
Themes and Issues, A. Premchand
Capital Budgeting and Planning, Wes Clarke
Financial Management of Economic Development, J. Scott McDonald
Annual Budgeting and Long-Range Planning:
Is There a Fit? - Lessons from Three Case Studies, Yilin Hou and Jun Ma
PUBLIC FINANCE
The Property Tax: Past, Present and Future, Deborah A. Carroll and Benjamin J. Sharbel
E-commerce and the Future of the State
Sales Tax System, Christopher G. Reddick and Jerrell D. Coggburn
Lessons of Tax Compliance Research for
Lawmakers and Tax Administrators:
Getting Best Returns from Limited Resources, John L. Mikesell and Liucija Birskyte
The Lottery as an Economic Stimulus Tool:
The Case of Florida, Susan A. MacManus
Promoting Economic Development with
Tax Incentives: A Primer on Property
Tax Abatements, Esteban G. Dalehite
DEBT, WORKING BALANCES, AND
FINANCIAL CONDITION ANALYSIS
Rating General Obligation Debt: Implications of
Resource Scarcity, Steven G. Koven and Stuart C. Strother
State Debt Capacity and Debt Limits:
Theory and Practice, Dwight V. Denison and Merl Hackbart
Working Capital Management in Government:
Basic Concepts and Policy Choices, Aman Khan
Fund Balance, Working Capital, and Net Assets, Justin Marlowe
A Manageable System of Economic Condition
Analysis for Governments, Dean Michael Mead
PUBLIC PENSIONS
The Management of Public Pensions, Jerrell D. Coggburn and Christopher G. Reddick
An Econometric Assessment of State and Local
Government Retirement System Governance Practices,
Investment Strategies, and Financial Performance, William G. Albrecht and Thomas D. Lynch
PERFORMANCE BUDGETING AND
MANAGEMENT
Toward Financial Freedom: Budgetary
Reform in the U.S. Courts, J. Edward Gibson
Public Participation in Local Performance
Measurement and Budgeting, Alfred Ho and Paul Coates
Enhancing the Utilization of Performance
Measures in Local Government: Lessons from Practice, Milan J. Dluhy
The Intersection of Accounting and
Local Government Performance Measurement, Ken Smith and Lee Schiffel
Reformed County Government and Service
Delivery Performance: An Integrated Study of
Florida Counties, Alejandro Rodriguez
Federal Performance Reporting Requirements:
From Financial Management to E-Government, Patrick R. Mullen
INTERNATIONAL PERPECTIVES
Public Finance Reform in Selected British
Commonwealth Countries, Jayesh D'Souza
Modernizing Public Budgeting and
Financial Management in China, Yun Ma and Meili Niu
Reviews
"Authors in this volume illustrate both the importance but also the utility of including comparative and historical quantitative analysis of financial conditions and practices in their planning and decision making… Practitioners in the field, especially at the state and local level, will find the topics in this volume relevant to their jobs and illustrative of the critical trends taking place around the country and world at large. It is a 'must' read for people trying to keep up with the public financial management field."
Milan J. Dluhy, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Wilmington, from the Foreword