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Budget Tools
Financial Methods in the Public Sector

Second Edition


November 2014 | 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
Key features

NEW AND KEY FEATURES:

  • Expanded to cover a range of topics and skills, such as budget tools, budget process, capital budgeting and asset management, implementation, forecasting, cost analysis, breakeven analysis, investment analysis, cost allocation, net present value analysis, performance-based budgeting, estimating and requesting decision packages, long term financing and debt, cash flow estimates and variance analysis, classifying and categorizing data, capital budgeting, financial analysis, and memo writing and multi-year planning 
  • Increased coverage of the legislative process
  • Added material on sensitivity analysis
  • Includes more case examples and exercises to help readers understand concepts in a hands-on way
  • Support for the exercises, including preformatted spreadsheets available online for instructors
  • All Excel techniques used explained in separate Appendix to provide easy reference for readers and instructors

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 1

Chapter 7


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