Overview
Financial management is emerging as a critical force in everyday management. The continuing upward spiral of inflation, rising cost of governmental programs, and citizens' demands for better cost-effective delivery of goods and services are forcing public managers and other not-for-profit organizations to make creative use of their scarce financial resources. In this new and updated edition, chapters place new and special emphasis on ceiling and target base budget estimating, ratio analysis, TQM, and internal control cost systems. Accountability is given a fresh approach, as it deals with the complicated issues of today's nonprofit organizations. This volume is imperative reading for managers, administrators, scholars, teachers, and students of financial management of public and nonprofit organizations, including the health care industry, public affairs, political science, as well as schools of public health and social work. New measurement indicator terms that have recently entered the literature are introduced, showing how they are linked to accountability and TQM. Recent developments in revenue, purchasing and inventory, cash, risk management borrowing, and debt management are also incorporated. Particular emphasis is given to performance measurements and their linkage to budgeting and management. The PPBS system that has been developed in response to the dissatisfaction with traditional line-item and performance budgeting is given its own, in-depth chapter and analysis. An important section of the book addresses fraud, waste, and abuse. Because financial management is the only activity that touches every employee in an organization, this is an indispensable book for managers on the state and local level.
Full Product Details
Author: Jerome B. McKinney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.953kg
ISBN: 9780899309255
ISBN 10: 0899309259
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 16 January 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
?Written to be accessible to those who are not experts but who are or may become managers.?-Booknews
?Written to be accessible to those who are not experts but who are or may become managers.?-Booknews Written to be accessible to those who are not experts but who are or may become managers. -Booknews
Author Information
JEROME B. McKINNEY is Professor of Public Management and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh.
