This book examines some of the most crucial budgetary and financial management problems that face the United States government and makes concrete recommendations on how current processes can be improved.
Introduction: Call for Reform by Thomas D. Lynch
Presidential Power and the Budget by Joseph White
Coordination of Budgeting by Ralph Bledsoe
Delay, Deadlock, and Deficits: Evaluating Proposals for
Congressional Budget Reform by James A. Thurber and Samantha L.
Durst
Federal Budget Making: A Bipartisan Failure by Thomas D. Lynch
Forecasting and the Federal Budget by John Forrester
Recent Developments in Federal Accounting and Financial Management
by Ronald Points
Federal Financial Management by W. Bartley Hildreth
Data Processing in Federal Budgeting and Financial Management by
Stanley B. Botner
Privatization and Federal Budget Reform by Lawrence L. Martin
Conclusion: Addressing the Problem by Thomas D. Lynch
Index
THOMAS D. LYNCH is Professor of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He is Vice President of the American Society for Public Administration and will be its President in 1992-93. He has written many books and articles, but he is primarily known for Public Budgeting in America which is in its third edition and co-editor of Handbook on Public Budgeting and Financial Management. He founded and edited for ten years The Bureaucrat.
?These nine original essays plus introduction and conclusion by
noted public financial management scholar Lynch survey recent
federal financial management developments. The first group, written
by J. Shite, R. Bledsoe, J. Thuber and S. Durst, Lynch, and J.
Forrester, work through generally familiar ground, particularly in
regard to the apparently intractable federal deficit; all are
capably done. The remainder, authored by R. Points, B. Hildreth, S.
Botner, and L. Martin, more broadly consider topics of financial
management, notably questions of monitoring, internal controls,
reporting, data processing, privatization, etc. Some greater
attention to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 and its
implications would have been desirable, as would have been greater
consideration of revenue inflows and their management, but those
omissions should not be taken as criticisms of what is in the book.
These are excellent essays that both introduce the neophyte to and
enlighten the scholar about the critical practices and issues of
federal financial management. Those studying public policy and
administration, as well as managers in the federal establishment
would do themselves a service by attention to these essays.
University collections.?-Choice
"These nine original essays plus introduction and conclusion by
noted public financial management scholar Lynch survey recent
federal financial management developments. The first group, written
by J. Shite, R. Bledsoe, J. Thuber and S. Durst, Lynch, and J.
Forrester, work through generally familiar ground, particularly in
regard to the apparently intractable federal deficit; all are
capably done. The remainder, authored by R. Points, B. Hildreth, S.
Botner, and L. Martin, more broadly consider topics of financial
management, notably questions of monitoring, internal controls,
reporting, data processing, privatization, etc. Some greater
attention to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 and its
implications would have been desirable, as would have been greater
consideration of revenue inflows and their management, but those
omissions should not be taken as criticisms of what is in the book.
These are excellent essays that both introduce the neophyte to and
enlighten the scholar about the critical practices and issues of
federal financial management. Those studying public policy and
administration, as well as managers in the federal establishment
would do themselves a service by attention to these essays.
University collections."-Choice
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