Budgeting Practices Handbook

Author: Charles Mecimore, W. Bartley Hildreth
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Sound Budgets, Strategic Planning, and Performance Measurement Made Easy with Step-by-Step Guidance from the Experts.
A sound budget is critical to the operations of every government entity – and your best bet for a sound budget is a sound process. Now the Sheshunoff State & Local Government Budgeting Practices Handbook gives you everything you need in one comprehensive resource.

The Handbook starts with the nuts and bolts of good budgeting, and takes you through all the steps that are the hallmark of sound budgeting practices:

Using the latest tools and techniques
Identifying budget goals and objectives
Understanding accounting structures
Forecasting revenues and expenditures
Working with different types of budgets
Doing strategic planning
Measuring performance
Developing a capital budget

Plus, sample budget guidelines, specific instructions, worksheets, budget calendars, budget requests, and other exhibits give you proven formats and approaches to follow.

Learn the Nuts and Bolts of Preparing Budgets from the Experts.
The authors of the Sheshunoff State & Local Government Budgeting Practices Handbook are hands-on experts who show you how to prepare sound budgets, do strategic planning, measure your performance, and more. And it's all presented in a clear, step-by-step format that makes it easy to follow and implement. W. Bartley Hildreth is currently the Regents Distinguished professor of Public Finance at Wichita State University and the Director of the Kansas Public Finance Center. Mr. Hildreth was a reviewer for the GFOA Budget Award Program; a member of the National Advisory Council for State & Local Budgeting, and a Board member for the GFOA Certification Program. He is the former Director of Finance for Akron, OH, and a winner of the GFOA budget award. He is currently editor-in-chief of The Municipal Finance Journal.

Charles D. Mecimore is currently a professor of accounting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and consults to the industry on using accounting data in budgeting and strategic planning, and cost and managerial accounting. He has developed continuing education courses on budgeting, cost management systems, and cost analysis for the Institute of Management Accountants, the AICPA, and for various accounting firms. He is the author of several books and articles on results-oriented budgeting and performance measurements.

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