Overview

As government borrowing and debt reaches record levels, public services, for the first time in over 30 years of unprecedented growth in spending, face the prospect of real cuts in their funding In these challenging times, Managing and Reforming Modern Public Services; The Financial Management Dimension shows you how to manage the financial resources of public services most effectively drawing on best practice from both public and private sectors Managing and Reforming Modern Public Services;The Financial Management Dimension considers all public service organisations from central government and local government to trusts and charities with a particular focus on health and education

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Author:   Malcolm Prowle
Publisher:   Pearson Education Limited
Imprint:   Financial Times Prentice Hall
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.746kg
ISBN:  

9780273722816

ISBN 10:   0273722816
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   19 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Contents List of figures List of tables List of case studies Glossary of terms and acronyms Part 1: The organisation and development of public services 1 Introduction: public services and the public sector * Introduction * Public sector and public services: provisioning and financing * Growth and development of the UK public sector * Configuration of the public sector and public services * The importance of financial management in public service organisations * Structure of the book 2 Financing public services * Introduction * Patterns of public expenditure * International perspectives * Sources of public services finance * Taxation * User charges * Government borrowings * Other sources * Framework of public expenditure * Planning and financing of public services * Allocating resources to public services 3 Public service trends and the impacts on financial management practices * Introduction * Brief history of public service reform * Aims and nature of public service reform * Causal factors of public service reform * General themes of public service reform * The impact of public service reform on financial management practices Part 2: Financial Management of Public Services: Key Aspects 4 Costing and costing systems in public service organisations * Introduction * Using cost information in PSOs * Basic principles of costing * Obtaining cost information in PSOs * Future public service trends and their impact on costing systems * Developing costing systems: the way forward 5 Managing strategic change in public services: The financial management contribution * Introduction * Major strategic changes in public services * The management of strategic change in public services * Strategic pl

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Macolm Prowleis Professor of Business Performance at Nottingham Business School and Visiting Professor at the Open University. With over thirty years experience of public sector financial management he has been a visiting consultant to the World health organisation and an advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee.

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