Practical Strategies for Applied Budgeting and Fiscal Administration

What Works for P-12 Administrators

By (author) Spencer C. Weiler, Gabriel R. Serna

Publication date:

26 July 2016

Length of book:

180 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475825640

This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in P-12 public education. It presents new and aspiring P-12 educational leaders with the fundamental knowledge and skills to supervise, analyze, and implement budgets that make the best and most effective use of limited resources. By exploring the foundational elements of fiscal administration and outlining the process step-by-step, this text carefully takes leaders through real-world examples and includes myriad opportunities for application. Indeed, a major goal of this text is to provide readers with a set of technical skills that can be applied across a range of contexts. Our expectation is that current and future P-12 budget managers and educational leaders will find this text invaluable in their day-to-day work and that the material presented here will help them engage in fruitful decisions around the allocation of scare resources.

Table of Contents
Dedications
Foreword: TBD
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Importance of Money In Public Education
Phase I: Foundations
Chapter 2: Getting to Know a Budget
Chapter 3: Anticipating Revenues and Expenditures
Chapter 4: Basics of Financial Ratio Analysis
Chapter 5: Forecasting, Accuracy, and Judgment
Phase II: Developing and Overseeing the Total Program
Chapter 6: The Budget Cycle
Chapter 7: Oversight and Budget Variance Analysis
Phase III: Capital Projects with and without Debt
Chapter 8: Capital Budgets without Debt
Chapter 9: Capital Budgeting and Debt
Phase IV: Linkage, Philosophy, and Conclusion
Chapter 10: Budget Alignment with Strategic Plan
Chapter 11: Conclusion
References
About the Authors

Practical Strategies for Applied Budgeting and Fiscal Administration is a state of the art resource for aspiring and developing administrators to understand fiscal budgeting in P-12 public education. Weiler and Serna provide a well-crafted applied text that is user-friendly and can directly inform the day-to-day work of school leaders.