TY - BOOK AU - Guess,George M. TI - Government budgeting: a practical guidebook SN - 9781438456676 AV - HJ 2161 .G94 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Albany PB - SUNY Press, State University of New York Press KW - BUDGET KW - PUBLIC FINANCE N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter1. Budgeting and Public Financial Management -- Chapter2. Analysis of the Revenue Budget -- Chapter3. Budget Request and Expenditure Analysis -- Chapter4. Capital planning, Budgeting and financing -- Chapter5. Budget Implementation and Control N2 - The attainment of effective local government accountability and transparency is not an end itself, but rather it represents the means to support better decision-making on national and local budgeting. Community based schemes for enhancing local government accountability need to combine legal, political, and administrative mechanisms with proactive community involvement ER -