Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities 1st Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0765627809
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0765627803
• Author: Douglas Morgan (Author), Kent S. Robinson (Contributor), Dennis Strachota (Contributor), James A. Hough (Contributor)

Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme.
Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and state budgeting, a lack of a theoretical governance framework, an omission of important topics, and typically a lack of exercises and datasets for student use. Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities solves all of these problems.
The book is exceptionally comprehensive and well written, and represents the efforts of veteran authors with both teaching and real-world experience.

Table contents:

Part I. General Cocepts Of Local Public BudgetingTeaching Case: A Case of Drastically Falling Nonprofit Revenues

1. Local Public Budgeting and the Challenges of Decentralized Governance

2. Local Public Budgeting and Democratic Theory

3. The Multiple Purposes of Public Budgeting

4. Budget Actors: Conflicting Perspectives

5. The Budget Cycle: Characteristics and Consequences

Part II. Revenues and BudgetingTeaching Case: Commissioners Request Recommendations on a Public Safety Services Levy

6. Obtaining Governmental Revenues

7. Forecasting Governmental Revenues: Techniques and Limitations

8. Polity Revenues and Governance Decisions

9. Budget Funds Organize the Public Budget

10. Budget Planning: Preparing the Organization and Community to Budget

Part III. Expenditure Formats For Decision and ControlTeaching Case: A New Mayor Mandates Performance Based Budgeting

Part III Introduction: Expenditure Formats for Decision and Control

11. Line-Item (Object Code) Budgeting

12. Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) Format

13. Performance Budgeting

14. Public Sector Innovation and Zero-Base Budgeting

Part IV. Executive Priorities, Budget Adoption, and ImplementationTeaching Case: Negotiations with City Unions Threaten to Disrupt the Budget ProcessTeaching Case: County Board Consideration of a Capital Project that Could Jeopardize the County Credit Rating

15. Executive Budget Preparation and Governing Body Approval

16. Capital Budgeting and Financing

17. Budget Execution

18. Audit and Performance Evaluation

19. Local Budgeting for the Common