Public Sector Financial Management

Name: Public Sector Financial Management
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ISBN: 9780077078881

ISBN-10: 0077078888

ISBN-13: 9780077078881

Edition: 1996

Authors: Bernard Jones

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This is a comprehensive guide to the background and the disciplines of public sector financial management. It describes governmental processes, the functions of taxation budgetary control and financial reporting.

Book details

Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.70" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Preface
Description and Analysis
The Strategic Level of Public Sector Financial Management	p. 3
Where We Are Now	p. 23
The Budgetary Cycle	p. 44
Terminology and Concepts
The Budget as it Appears to a Manager	p. 65
Budgetary Reports	p. 71
Variances and How to Deal with Them	p. 77
Audit: Key Concepts and Internal Audit	p. 81
External Audit and the Audit Commission	p. 86
Value for Money: Economy, Efficiency and Effectiveness	p. 89
The Internal Market: Costing, Pricing and Service-Level Agreements	p. 95
Business Planning	p. 102
Tenders and Tendering	p. 106
Numerical Techniques with Examples
Cash Budgets	p. 115
Project Cash Flows or Payback Periods	p. 122
Discounted Cash Flow	p. 126
Break-Evens	p. 132
Costing	p. 139
Pricing	p. 148
Variance Analysis	p. 154
Cost of Capital	p. 162
Forecasting	p. 166
Performance Indicators	p. 176
Quantitative Exercises and Case Studies
Cash Flow	p. 186
Project Cash Flows/Pay Back	p. 188
Discounted Cash Flow	p. 189
Break-Evens	p. 191
Costing	p. 192
Pricing	p. 195
Variance Analysis	p. 197
Cost of Capital	p. 199
Forecasting	p. 201
Performance Indicators	p. 203
Case study 1: Sidwell Sports Centre	p. 205
Case study 2: Tarranto Street Hospital Kitchens	p. 208
Case study 3: Upchester Car Park	p. 210
Case study 4: Vindlebridge Ambulance Station	p. 212
Case study 5: Westshire School Closure	p. 214
Case study 6: Exhampton Hospital Contracts	p. 217
Answers to numerical exercises in articles D1-D10	p. 219
Glossary	p. 222
Basic principles of accounting as applied to public authorities	p. 232
Sources of information and further reading	p. 239
Index	p. 241
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