Budget Tools

Financial Methods in the Public Sector
Second Edition
Daniel W. Williams - CUNY-Baruch College
Budget Tools
November 2014 | 384 pages | CQ Press
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Description

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.

Contents

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

Additional materials

Description

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.

Contents

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

Additional materials

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Budget Tools

Financial Methods in the Public Sector


November 2014 | 384 pages | CQ Press

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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.


Table Of Contents:

  • 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

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