"Aimed at non-finance specialists, this book starts from the premise of what public sector managers need to know in order to use the financial information in front of them effectively. The key focus is on identifying the core information needed to make decisions from the sea of financial...

Drawing on a framework of deinstitutionalization, this study explores the abandonment of budgeting through a multiple-case study of four companies. The findings illustrate how a number of antecedents to deinstitutionalization acted in each setting and show that abandonment was only achieved...