Understanding Government Budgets (A Guide to Practices in the Public Service)

This concise guide, written in accessible language and covering a full range of topics through examples from real budgets is an essential primer for preparing students to engage with larger issues of budgeting in their careers. Musell’s attention to the choices made over how to formally structure a budget are unparalleled and his hands-on, applied approach to the nuts and bolts of agency budgets prepares future administrators and public managers for a career in government budgeting.