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Forsythe, Dall W.; Boyd, Donald J.; Forsythe, David P. - Memos to the Governor - 9781589019249 - V9781589019249
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Memos to the Governor

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Description for Memos to the Governor Paperback. Outlines the budgeting process through a series of memos from a budget director to a freshly elected governor. This title covers the steps of budget preparation, from strategy to execution, explaining technical vocabulary, and discussing key topics including baseline budgeting, revenue forecasting, and gap-closing options. Num Pages: 136 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPP; KFFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 174.
This revised and updated edition of "Memos to the Governor" is a concise and highly readable guidebook that explains in clear, understandable prose the technical, economic, and political dynamics of budget making. Updated with many new examples of budget quandaries from recent years, this book helps current and future public administrators untangle the knotty processes of budget preparation and implementation. Authors Dall W. Forsythe and Donald J. Boyd outline the budgeting process through a series of memos from a budget director to a newly elected governor - a format that helps readers with little or no background understand complicated financial issues. They cover all of the steps of budget preparation, from strategy to execution, explaining technical vocabulary, and discussing key topics including baseline budgeting, revenue forecasting, and gap-closing options. Forsythe and Boyd bring fresh insights into such issues as the importance of a multiyear strategic budget plan, the impact of the business cycle on state budgets, the tactical problems of getting budgets adopted by legislatures, and, of course, the relationship between governor and budget officer. "Memos to the Governor" is a painless, practical introduction to budget preparation for students of and practitioners in public administration and public-sector financial management.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781589019249
SKU
V9781589019249
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Forsythe, Dall W.; Boyd, Donald J.; Forsythe, David P.
Dall W. Forsythe is a senior fellow at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and is a member of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. He has served as budget director for the State of New York and chief financial officer of the Atlantic Philanthropies. Donald J. Boyd is a senior fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. He recently served as executive director of the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, co-chaired by Richard Ravitch and Paul Volcker.

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