Budget Theory in the Public Sector

by Aman U. Khan and W. Bartley Hildreth

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"