Financial Management Theory in the Public Sector

by Aman Khan, W. Bartley Hildreth

Overview

To have a clear picture of developments in public financial management, a multidimensional perspective of the field is needed, since governments—unlike for-profit organizations— serve multiple and often conflicting interests. This book provides this dynamic approach by integrating insights from economics, business, and political science.

Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, this collection presents eleven chapters that run the gamut of public financial management issues. Topics include: Transaction costs in contractual relationships; Uncertain conditions and probability assessment in the bond market; Rational choice and the institutional framework in public investment decision; E-Government financial management models; Budget balance as the building block of public financial strategy. Together the contributors present a robust framework for understanding and analyzing financial decision making in the public sector.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781567206258
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/30/2004
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Aman Khan is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Texas Tech, Lubbock. He is author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of numerous professional publications, he serves on the editorial boards of the The Jourbanal of Public Administration and Management and the Jourbanal of Public Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management.

W. Bartley Hildreth is Regents Distinguished Professor of Public Finance at the Hugo Wall School of Urban and Public Affairs and the W. Frank Barton School of Business and Director of the Kansas Public Finance Center, Wichita State. He is a book review editor for the International Jourbanal of Public Administration and editor or coeditor of many professional publications including the Handbook on Taxation, Handbook of Public Personnel Administration, and the Handbook of Strategic Management.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Managing Financial Transactions Efficiently: A Transaction Cost Model of Public Financial Management by John R. Bartle and Jun Ma
Information Asymmetry in Public Investment Management by Brian K. Collins and Aman Khan
Bridging the Gap between Contract Service Delivery and Public Financial Management: Applying Theory to Practice by Lawrence L. Martin
Prospect Theory and the Municipal Bond Market by Kenneth A. Kriz
Practice as Interpretation in Public Financial Management by Gerald J. Miller with Jonathan Justice and Iryna Illiash
Should Financial Reporting by Government Encompass Performance Reporting? Origins and Implications of the GFOA-GASB Conflict by William Earle Klay, Sam M. McCall, and Curtis E. Paynes
Assessing the Likely Acceptance of Financial Management Techniques in the Public Sector: A Characteristic Approach by William G. Albrecht and Rev. Thomas D. Lynch
Fiscal Decentralization: Theory as Reform by James Edwin Kee
Managing Structural Imbalances: Implications for Fiscal Decision Making and Policy by Merl Hackbart and Jim Ramsey
E-Government Financial Management Models by Craig L. Johnson
Integrating Theory and Practice: Financial Management Reform in the U.S. Federal Government by L.R. Jones and Jerry L. McCaffery
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors