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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Basics of Budgets: Cycles, Coverage, Status, Numbers; 3 The Basics of Budget Structure; 4 Public Employment in Budgets; 5 Performance Measures in Budgets; 6 Capital Spending in Budgets; 7 Tax Expenditures and Tax Expenditure Budgets; 8 The Federal Budget: An Example Covering the National Archives; 9 Small Town U.S.A.: An Example from Avon, Connecticut; 10 Performance in Budgeting: An Example from the State of Texas

11 Budgeting in Nonprofits: Examples from Labor, Research, Arts, and EducationNotes; Index

Public 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 choices made about content, format, and organization influence the story a budget tells. Designed to help citizens, students, and policy makers become more informed users of public budgets, this book makes the format of budgets and the information they contain accessible and understandable, providing users with the tools they need to make better sense of public organizations and their performance. Perfect for undergraduate or graduate-level courses in budgeting and public administration, Understanding Government Budgets, Second Edition also offers a useful guide to budgets for the average citizen with an interest in how government operates.

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