Questions of how public organizations control and manage resources have been relegated to an insular subfield of contemporary public management. This is both unfortunate and unnatural because insights from the study of budgeting and financial management have traditionally been a driving force of...

The government and not-for-profit environment -- Fund accounting -- Issues of budgeting and control -- Recognizing revenues in governmental funds -- Recognizing expenditures in governmental funds -- Accounting for capital projects and debt service -- Capital assets and investments in marketable...

Strong property tax growth and proactive policies – including beginning the recession with a substantial surplus of $5.3 billion (9 percent of revenues) – offset a severe contraction in income tax receipts, protecting the City’s budget such that it never contracted in absolute terms during...

`Let evil be rewarded with like evil. But he that forgives and seeks reconciliation shall be rewarded by Allah. He does not love those that do wrong...'Sura 42:40`... come to terms with your opponent in good time while you are still on the way to the court...'Matthew 5:25In the analysis of...

This study examines whether rules, particular participants, and executive politics in state tax revenue estimation exert measurable influences on forecast error. Fixed-effects estimation using data from states’ respective fiscal years 1994 to 2003 indicates that all impact state tax revenue...