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Financial Management Theory in the Public Sector
Book Code: Q625
ISBN: 1-56720-625-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-625-8
284 pages, figures; tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2004
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: To have a clear picture of developments in public financial management, a multidimensional perspective of the field is needed, since governments--unlike for-profit organizations-- serve multiple and often conflicting interests. This book provides this dynamic approach by integrating insights from economics, business, and political science. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, this collection presents eleven chapters that run the gamut of public financial management issues. Topics include: Transaction costs in contractual relationships; Uncertain conditions and probability assessment in the bond market; Rational choice and the institutional framework in public investment decision; E-Government financial management models; Budget balance as the building block of public financial strategy. Together the contributors present a robust framework for understanding and analyzing financial decision making in the public sector.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Managing Financial Transactions Efficiently: A Transaction Cost Model of Public Financial Management by John R. Bartle and Jun Ma
  • Information Asymmetry in Public Investment Management by Brian K. Collins and Aman Khan
  • Bridging the Gap between Contract Service Delivery and Public Financial Management: Applying Theory to Practice by Lawrence L. Martin
  • Prospect Theory and the Municipal Bond Market by Kenneth A. Kriz
  • Practice as Interpretation in Public Financial Management by Gerald J. Miller with Jonathan Justice and Iryna Illiash
  • Should Financial Reporting by Government Encompass Performance Reporting? Origins and Implications of the GFOA-GASB Conflict by William Earle Klay, Sam M. McCall, and Curtis E. Paynes
  • Assessing the Likely Acceptance of Financial Management Techniques in the Public Sector: A Characteristic Approach by William G. Albrecht and Rev. Thomas D. Lynch
  • Fiscal Decentralization: Theory as Reform by James Edwin Kee
  • Managing Structural Imbalances: Implications for Fiscal Decision Making and Policy by Merl Hackbart and Jim Ramsey
  • E-Government Financial Management Models by Craig L. Johnson
  • Integrating Theory and Practice: Financial Management Reform in the U.S. Federal Government by L.R. Jones and Jerry L. McCaffery
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Contributors
LC Card Number: 2004014655
LCC Class: HJ141
Dewey Class: 352
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