ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Accounting and the Crimean War -- ch. 3. Accounting on the frontline in the South African War -- ch. 4. Military accounting and the business of war -- ch. 5. Taming the untamable : the normalization of nuclear war -- ch. 6. The Vietnam War, performance measures and...

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- The institutional and legal framework -- Introduction -- The macroeconomic framework for managing public finances / Richard Hemming -- Public financial management...