Budget Tools
Financial Methods in the Public Sector

Second Edition

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Public Budgeting

January 2015 | 384 pages | CQ Press

The thoroughly updated and expanded Second Edition of Greg G. Chen, Lynne A. Weikart, and Daniel W. Williams’ Budget Tools: Financial Methods in the Public Sector brings together scores of exercises that will take students through the process of public budgeting, from organizing data through analysis and presentation. This thoroughly revised text has been restructured – it now has 30 compact modules to focus on individual skills and enhance flexibility, and is reorganized to cover more straightforward skills early in the book and more complex tools later on. Using budgets from all levels of government as well as from nonprofit organizations, the authors give students the opportunity to work with real budgeting data to cover a range of topics and skills. Budget Tools provides instruction in the techniques and implementation of budgeting skills at a granular level to support a wide range of approaches to teaching the subject.

Part 1: Introduction

Module 1: The Craft of Budgeting

Part 2: Budget Tools

Module 2: Organizing Budget Data

Module 3: Fixed and Variable Costs

Module 4: Breakeven Analysis

Module 5: Cost Allocation

Module 6: Time Value of Money

Module 7: Inflation

Module 8: Sensitivity Analysis

Module 9: Integrating Budgeting With Performance

Part 3: The Budget Process

Module 10: The Budget Process: An Overview

Module 11: The Budget Document

Module 12: Determining the Baseline Budget

Module 13: Decision Packages: Cost Estimates

Module 14: Decision Packages: Budget Justifications

Module 15: Budget Cutbacks

Module 16: Legislative Budget Tools

Part 4: Capital Budgeting and Asset Management

Module 17: Cost-Benefit Analysis

Module 18: Life Cycle Costing

Module 19: Capitalization and Depreciation

Module 20: Long-Term Financing

Module 21: Investment Strategies

Part 5: Budget Implementation

Module 22: Operating Plan and Variance Analysis

Module 23: Cash Management and Internal Controls

Module 24: Forecasting and Managing Cash Flow

Module 25: Government and Nonprofit Accounting

Module 26: Financial Statement Analysis

Part 6: Advanced Tools

Module 27: Calculating Payroll

Module 28: Basic Forecasting Concepts

Module 29: Forecasting Intermediate Forecasting

Module 30: Forecasting Advanced Intermediate Methods

Supplements

Instructor Resource Site
Available for instructors is a password-protected resource site featuring graphics from the book (including a wealth of appendix tables and figures), self-checking spreadsheet and solutions for the book.

Student Study Site
Available for students is a open-access site featuring graphics from the book (including a wealth of appendix tables and figures), datasets and additional online-only modules.

Looks good and work with our Work Based Learning assignments for year two students and year one Financial unit.

Mr Mike Kershaw

Management , Knowsley Community College

April 29, 2015

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