Financial Management Theory in the Public Sector

Book flyer
MS Word
International
MS Word

Aman Khan, W. Bartley Hildreth

Book Code: Q625

ISBN: 1-56720-625-5

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-625-8

DOI:

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

Subjects:

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


All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2008 Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881, (203) 226-3571