Financial Management for Public Health and Not for Profit Organizations or Economic Growth and Change

Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for Profit Organizations

Author: Steven A A Finkler

This is one of the only books available that addresses financial and managerial accounting within the framework of the three major areas of the public sector. Clear and comprehensive, Finkler's unique and accessible text provides the fundamentals of financial management for those who lack a financial background so that readers can access and apply financial information more effectively. Details the many aspects of strategic and budgetary planning. Outlines the processes involved in implementing and controlling results. Features aspects of accounting unique for Health Care, not-for-profit organizations and state and local governments. Explains balance sheets, operating and cash flow statements. Provides basic foundation for financial analysis. For managers and policy-makers in public service organizations who want to make more efficient use of their organization's financial information.

Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE.

1. Introduction to Financial Management.

II. PLANNING

2. Planning for Success: Budgeting.
3. Additional Budgeting Concepts.
4. Understanding Costs.
5. Capital Budgeting and Long-Term Financing.

III. IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTROLLING RESULTS.

6. Managing Short-Term Resources and Obligations.
7. Accountability and Control.

IV. REPORTING RESULTS.

8. Taking Stock of Where You Are: The Balance Sheet.
9. Reporting the Results of Operations: The Activity and Cash Flow Statements.
10. Unique Aspects of Accounting for Health Care and Not-for-Profit Organizations.
11. Unique Aspects of Accounting for State and Local Governments.

V. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS.

12. Financial Statement Analysis.
13. Financial Condition Analysis.
Glossary.
Index.

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Economic Growth and Change

Author: John Adams

The pursuit of economic growth is at the top of every nation's policy agenda at the end of the 20th century. This authoritative and comprehensive book goes beyond the narrowly based convergence model of economic growth by considering global, national and regional patterns of growth from a comparative perspective.

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Considers global, national, and regional (subnational) patterns of economic growth from a comparative perspective in 16 papers from a June 1997 conference in Cagliari, Italy. They include discussions of the economic rise and decline of nations; research and development, technology, and economic growth; how much convergence has taken place in the inequality in regional and state per-capita incomes in the US; whether allocation matters in human capital and growth in the European regions; growth and sectoral dynamics in the Italian regions; and regional integration and public investment in Spain. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)