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Financial management for the public services / edited by John Wilson.
Lippincott Library HJ1023 .F537 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Managing the public services
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finance, Public--Great Britain.
- Finance, Public.
- Government spending policy.
- History.
- Public welfare.
- Finance.
- Great Britain.
- Public welfare--Great Britain--Finance.
- National health services--Great Britain--Finance.
- National health services.
- Government spending policy--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Local finance--Great Britain.
- Local finance.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, 1998.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Public service environment 1
- 1 Economics of public service provision / John Wilson 3
- 2 The new management of public services / John Wilson 32
- Part 2 Understanding finance 57
- 3 Budgeting and budgetary control / John Williams, Anita Carroll 59
- 4 Costing and pricing in the public sector / Christopher J. Pyke 77
- 5 Capital investment appraisal / John Williams, Anita Carroll 99
- Part 3 Applied accountability 123
- 6 Audit quality / Bob Hopkins 125
- 7 The mismanagement of financial resources / Alan Doig 143
- 8 Performance measurement / David Gardner 169
- Part 4 Key sectors 197
- 9 Local government financial management / Christopher J. Pyke 199
- 10 National Health Service financial management / George Foster, John Wilson 227
- Part 5 Towards the future 255
- 11 Financial management: an overview / John Wilson 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0335198465
- 0335198457
- OCLC:
- 38199326
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