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Financial Management in the Public Sector: Tools, Applications, And Cases
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Public Expenditure Analysis (Public Sector, Governance, and Accountability Series) (Public Sector, Governance, and Accountability Series)
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For various reasons¡Vwhether philosophical, political, humanitarian, or by institutional mandate¡Vpeople are concerned for the well being of the most vulnerable groups in society: women, the poor, and the elderly. Some would even measure the value of a political system by how well it cares for the least of its members. Related to this is the orientation of government toward the public more generally and the extent that it listens and responds to its citizens. More specifically, it is the rules and norms¡Vthe institutional framework¡Vof government through which it takes into account the preferences of people on a day-to-day basis, not just at the ballot box. Public Expenditure Analysis explores two themes: the orientation of government towards its more vulnerable groups and the extent to which government is responsive to its citizens. The first part of the book provides tools, methodologies, and examples of how to examine the impact of government expenditures, taxes, pension systems and other policies on women, the poor, and the elderly. The second part looks at the different ways that the government listens to citizens¡¦ voices and proposes a new institutional framework for governments that wish to implement reforms that increase responsiveness: citizen-centered government and citizen¡Xcentered budgeting.
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Public Services Delivery (Public Sector, Governance, and Accountability) (Public Sector, Governance, and Accountability Series)
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The globalization of information¡Xsatellite TV, internet, phone and fax¡Xserve to enhance citizens¡¦ awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government¡¦s performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book. The abstract concept of ¡§government performance¡¨ can only be an effective tool in public debate when there are concrete statistics measuring performance and benchmarks against which current indicators can be compared. Public Services Delivery offers a comprehensive view of government performance measurement. The first part examines systems or frameworks for measuring the performance of government at the national level and at local levels of government. The second part of the book focuses on particular sectors that form the core of essential government services: health, education, welfare, waste disposal, and infrastructure. This book provides powerful tools to: a) development practitioners to evaluate projects, b) to policymakers to reform their government¡¦s policies, and c) to public interest groups that wish to pressure their government for improvements in government services.
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"The globalization of information-satellite TV, internet, phone and fax-serve to enhance citizens' awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government's performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book. The abstract concept of "government performance" can only be an effective tool in public debate when there are concrete statistics measuring performance and benchmarks against which current indicators can be compared. Public Services Delivery offers a comprehensive view of government performance measurement. The first part examines systems or frameworks for measuring the performance of government at the national level and at local levels of government. The second part of the book focuses on particular sectors that form the core of essential government services: health, education, welfare, waste disposal, and infrastructure. This book provides powerful tools to: a) development practitioners to evaluate projects, b) to policymakers to reform their government's policies, and c) to public interest groups that wish to pressure their government for improvements in government services."
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Contracts, Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Public Sector (Intl Inst of Administrative Sciences Monographs, Vol 25)
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This book addresses issues to do with public accountability, audit and performance measurement that are both highly topical and of crucial importance to the theory and practice of public administration in an era of contractualised public management. The literature on public sector contracting - covering both `hard' agreements (ones that are legally enforceable) and `soft' agreements (enforced by negotiation and mutual trust) - has been growing for some time, and the present book adds a primarily European perspective on contracting, performance-based management and accountability. One important aspect of this study is its recognition that those responsible for monitoring public services, and holding them to account, have had - to an increasing extent - to reconcile tensions between, on the one hand, the need for strong oversight and, on the other, the encouragement of innovation and risk in an increasingly competitive and entrepreneurial public service culture.
Following an introductory overview by the three editors the book is in three parts. The first part deals with the theory and practice of performance measurement and evaluation; the second part provides a series of specific case studies of audit and accountability in a variety of countries and contexts; the third part offers some wider, cross-cutting perspectives. Based on the work of the EGPA permanent study group on the history of contractualisation, Contracts, Performance Measurement and Accountability in the Public Sector draws upon the wide expertise and research interests of academics and practitioners from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden and the USA.
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Combating Fraud and Corruption in the Public Sector
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Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations (Irwin Series in Graduate Accounting)
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Anthony and Young's MANAGEMENT CONTROL IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, 7e includes an abundance of cases that apply to a variety of nonprofit organizations. MANAGEMENT CONTROL IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, 7e provides faculty with contemporary management control theory combined with classic and contemporary cases that can be used to augment the learning process. The cases vary in length so that faculty may use this text in a beginning or advanced class.
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Excelent book by excelent authors.......2006-11-08
The book is very comprehensive and uses very good learning methodology. One can find all that is important in the area of management control. I can highly recomend the book to anyone interested in this field looking for a methodological guide to management control.
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Accounting and Performance Measurement: Issues in the Private and Public Sectors
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The measurement of performance is a central focus of accounting but one which presents the accountant with a continuing challenge. Accounting performance measures are no more than surrogates for a complex and dynamic reality. Their selection and fit raises these fundamental measurement issues: the fragility of the money measurement unit; the limitation of asset values in the context of imperfect markets; the standardization of accounting syntax; the derivation of accounting ratios; and the verification and selection of measurements.
In addition to the use and impact of selected measures, the dimensions of performance to be measured, the interpretation of persona, the extent of disclosure and the social and economic context in which measures are produced and used are all concerns of the accounting information producer.
This collection comprises a broad range of chapters by a group of acknowledged accounting experts. Together they provide an investigation and analysis of these issues in both private and public sector settings. Their variety in focus, content and method reveals the scale of the challenge facing researchers in this important area of contemporary accounting.
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Accounting for change: Reconciling the demands for accountability and innovation in the public sector
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Florence looks for a consistent theme that business people... and people in general... can use to make sense out of a confusing array of sexual mores and motives.
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This book describes in detail the physics of localized surface plasmon polaritons excited near fine metallic structures and the principles of near-field optics and microscopy related to this localized field. It covers not only near-field optical microscopy but also wider fields such as local spectroscopy, nanoscale optical processing, quantum near-field optics, and atom manipulation.
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study small scale geometries.......2007-07-06
Surface plasmons or surface plasmon polaritons [as the preferred term in the text] are used to investigate small scale phenomena at the interfaces between a metal and a non-metal. The diverse topics described by the book continue work done by Kretschmann et al in the 1970s. That latter work involved using the production of surface plasmons to measure the dielectric constant as a function of the frequency of incident light. Where the light created a resonance at the interface, that produced surface plasmons.
Much of the book's ideas can be understood as related. Though the geometries studied are now more varied. Especially noteworthy is the use of metallic tips, at which SPPs are made. The tips function as probes of nearby materials. Where the length scales are small compared to the wavelengths of the exciting light.
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This revised and updated Second Edition of the best-selling reference/text is essential reading for students and scientists who seek a thorough and practical introduction to the field of polymer spectroscopy. Eleven chapters cover the fundamental aspects and experimental applications of the primary spectroscopic methods. The advantages and disadvantages of the various techniques for particular polymer systems are also discussed. The goal of the author is not to make the reader an expert in the field, but rather to provide enough information about the different spectroscopic methods that the reader can determine how the available techniques can be used to solve a particular polymer problem. This Second Edition contains new and updated information on techniques in IR and NMR, as well as an all-new chapter on Mass Spectrometry.
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Impressive Deception: Creation Or Evolution-- You Decide
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Impressive Deception offers an inside look at the deceiving portrayal of evolution by the media and in our public schools. Dee Dee Briski uncovers the media bias that forms the basis of the worldview that has become the accepted view in our mainstream educational systems. Using only this worldview option to "educate" our students forces the students to conform to the bias of evolution and in turn an atheistic worldview. Defining the evolution controversy, Ms. Briski highlights the evidence and flaws through probability, the age of the earth, and the fossil record. Impressive Deception demonstrates that "evolution" is most definitely a religionin fact a religion that requires more faith than does the belief in a creator. Creation science has led to serious doubt about evolution, yet this doubt and the flaws in evolution theory are not advanced in science texts nor reported in the mainstream press. As you will see as you follow the agenda of the evolution religion, the manipulation goes far beyond the laboratory and the classroom. It seeps into our culture and our minds, impressing our souls.
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Inpressive Deception.......2005-03-06
I thought it was an eye opener. After a while I was getting mad about how the public education system is leaving out so much science to explain evolution and how many people walk with blinders on when looking at the subject. When I would talk to people about what I read in the book they were shocked at some of the facts that they did not know. Science should not be censored.
I enjoyed the book and found it to be a quick read while it gave a large amount of imformation. I liked the way it covered the many sub topics that are part of this controversy and pointed to many references for further investigation.
Why the deception?.......2004-12-01
I enjoyed reading this book. Dee Dee did a wonderful job of bringing out some evidence that our children are not taught to think for themselves. They are given only one side, and in doing this, we are causing them to be infants in their ability to master critical thinking skills. These skills will be needed for them to be successful in their adult lives.
After reading Dee Dee's book I to question the reason behind the deception. Why are the evolutionists afraid to allow other views to be brought to the table?
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- F Scott Fitzawesome
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The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
F. Scott Fitzgerald , and
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Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now, a half-century after the author's death, the premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew J. Bruccoli, has assembled in one volume the full scope of Fitzgerald's best short fiction: forty-three sparkling masterpieces, ranging from such classic novellas as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" to his commercial work for the Saturday Evening Post and its sister "slicks."
For the reader, these stories will underscore the depth and extraordinary range of Fitzgerald's literary talents. Furthermore, Professor Bruccoli's illuminating preface and introductory headnotes establish the literary and biographical settings in which these stories now shine anew with brighter luster than ever.
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F Scott Fitzawesome.......2007-01-07
F Scott Fitzgerald is the greatest American author of the 20th Century. It's easy to see why with this collection of short stories. What I enjoy best about this book is seeing the experimentation of Fitzgerald's writing from one story to the next. It's fun to see the literary and thematic chances that he took as his career progressed. You should buy this book.
Deadline Looming...........2006-07-24
It was, after all, the Great Cham, Samuel Johnson, who said that "Nobody but a blockhead ever wrote for anything but money"-I don't believe this is true. I don't even believe Johnson that "harmless drudge" as he describes himself in the dictionary he spent several unrewarded years compiling believed it either. But it does, anent Fitzgerald and his stories, as comprised in this book, come to mind. Simply put, Fitzgerald was a much better short story writer than a novelist. Indeed, one can argue that Fitzgerald was not a novelist at all and was, as he described himself, a writer who wanted to "preach at people." In any event, the Johnsonian dictum cited above seems to apply to Fitzgerald: He wrote much better when under some pecuniary deadline than otherwise. I am not so much concerned here as to whether "Fitzgerald" was a "great" writer or not. But he was certainly no Keats or Shelley, as one reviewer eulogizes.
There is a gossamer quality to Fitzgerald's prose that, it seems to me, is mistaken for lyricism. Pick up any page of Fitzgerald's contemporary, Thomas Wolfe, (specifically Look Homeward, Angel) and you'll see the difference. -What this lightness of touch amounts to in his novels and stories, for the most part, is that the characters come off as two-dimensional, and when Scott tries to delve deeper for what he called "psychological moments" or whatever, the reader is left with a gracefully penned alternative two-dimensional figure. It's quite frustrating. ----All this is to say, though I'm not a great fan of Fitzgerald's writing, some of these stories are worth any reader's while, and I shall list them:
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" p.25
"Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar" p.237
"Love In The Night" p.302
"A Short Trip Home" p.372
"The Swimmers" p.495
"A New Leaf" p.634
"Afternoon of An Author" p.734
"The Lost Decade" p.747
These stories stand out for one of two reasons, they lack the strain put on the reader by the gossamer sketching described above, or, for a few of them, Fitzgerald actually manages to pull it off - a powerful or haunting story touching the human condition.
Sorry, F. Scott acolytes, but only three stars for these pearls amidst the Period-Writing paste.
Beautiful writing.......2003-07-14
The use of language doesn't get much better than this. Each sentence is a work of art and a pleasure to read. I smile as I read. The stories themselves are so clearly placed in a post-WWI setting that they are a glimpse into life in the 1920's - as, I believe, Fitgerald wanted to show. Also, to me, any Fitgerald work edited or or explained by Matthew Bruccoli is informative & interesting.
The above, though, is to those who like Fitzgerald. To me, his is special beyond many other authors' writing. If you've never enjoyed his work before, this book won't change that. If you've never read anything by Fitzgerald, I would suggest starting with "The Great Gatsby."
Fitzgerald's Stories--Short and Sweet.......2002-09-27
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote tons of stories during his lifetime--something around 134, total. This book, however, contains the most elite chunk of those writings. To start, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is one of Fitzgerald's most-read stories. I have read it myself, but have found better ones. "The Ice Palace", for instance, has a remarkable ability to make its readers walk away saying "I relate to this!". "May Day", my personal favorite, is about people on top sinking to the bottom, and people on the bottom sinking lower. At least, that's the abridged summary, there's alot more to it then that. "Winter Dreams" is another winner, but I liked "May Day" better. All of his stories generally pertain to Fitzgerald's masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby". In other words, they all contain that one character desperately searching for the missing piece of the puzzle. That can be either the one element that would make his/her life complete, or launch it in a different direction. Why does he do this so well? Because this theme is partially autobiographical. Fitzgerald started off at Princeton where he made hardly any friends. Then he moved on to the Southern US when he joined the army. This is where he met Zelda. But Zelda did not want to marry him due to his lack of money. So Fitzgerald began writing in persuit of the dollar to support Zelda. His plan worked and he was a big success...for a while. Then he moved, in despiration, to Europe in order to gain a better status. This didn't work either and he ended up dying in Hollywood at age 40. His wife, Zelda, went mad and was institutionalized a few years prior. This should be kept in mind as you read his short stories, there are definate parallels!
A wonderful, quick read.......2001-12-04
I've read almost all of F Scott Fitzgerald's work and I was delighted to find this compelation of short stories. I read this book alomst four years ago and I can still remember the characters and details of each story - my favorite was Diamond as Big as the Ritz. Try it out and you will not be dissapointed!
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