Budget Theory in the Public Sector

by Aman U. Khan and W. Bartley Hildreth

Book Overview

Dominated by multiple, competing, and occasionally overlapping theories, the act of budgeting is by no means a staid, dispiriting task. Kahn, Hildreth, and their group of scholars and practitioners show that budgeting is an institutional process, an incremental decision-making tool, and when correctly applied becomes a tribute to managerial and administrative efficiency. Taken together, the chapters provide an unusually coherent conceptual foundation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567202810
• ISBN13: 9781567202816
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"