Understanding Government Budgets: A Practical Guide by Yeung, Musell New..

Taylor & Francis

Understanding Government BudgetsA Guide to Practices in the Public Service\nAuthor(s): R. Mark Musell, Ryan Yeung\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138786301, 978-1138786301\nSynopsis\nPublic budgets follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of public finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments across the globe, between federal, state, and local levels of government in the United States, and among nonprofit organizations, many of which provide services similar to governments. Understanding Government Budgets, Second Edition offers a detailed examination of each of the different types of information found in budgets, featuring annotated examples from a variety of organizations. It expands on explanations in the previous edition by including a wealth of examples from governments abroad and from the nonprofit sector. The book stresses that the.