PUBLIC BUDGETING LABORATORY

"Did you ever teach budgeting? Did you ever try to construct a class that had readings coverning everthing from budgeting formats to revenue sources to accounting principles? A panoply of lifelike examples of budgeing documents? Budgeting and analysis exercises that closely simulated the real world? I have devised such a course. It wasn't easy. What I needed was Public Budgeting Laboratory."

The Public Budgeting Laboratory is a four volume set of materials designed to provide the knowledge and practical experience necessary for competence in budget preparation. Budget experience is fine-tuned through a simulated environment requiring development of a balanced budget. It is a self-contained learning package with a Workbook that provides step-by-step guides on developing a budget, a Data Sourcebook with five years of extensive revenue and expenditure records, a Budgeting anthology of practical readings on budget formulation and execution, and an Instructor's Manual with suggestions on how to conduct the laboratory in a classroom or workshop setting. The Public Budgeting Laboratory was published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, but the remaining inventory is available only from this web site.

PUBLIC BUDGETING LABORATORY WORKBOOK, SECOND EDITION - ISBN 0-89854-183-2

The Workbook, Second Edition, provides step-by-step guides on developing a local government budget, from development of revenue and expenditure histories, and the projection of revenues and the formulation of department budget plans, to the preparation of a complete budget draft for adoption consideration.

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PUBLIC BUDGETING LABORATORY DATA SOURCEBOOK, SECOND EDITION, REVISED - ISBN 0-89854-182-4

The Data Sourcebook, Second Edition, Revised, provides a self-contained set of records of an actual (but masked) local government. Included are materials on the city's physical and socioeconomic characteristics and five years of detailed records on revenues and expenditures (by department). The purpose of the Data Sourcebook is to have all the necessary data for budget preparation available in one document.

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BUDGETING: FORMULATION AND EXECUTION - ISBN 0-89854-180-8

This edited book, Budgeting: Formulation and Execution, contains over 50 articles on budget preparation and execution that has become one of the most adopted set of readings in budget courses. The book has timeless topics, concise writing, practical guidance, and is comprehensive in scope.

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PUBLIC BUDGETING LABORATORY INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL, SECOND EDITION - ISBN 0-89854-184-0

The Instructor's Manual, Second Edition, provides suggestions on how to conduct the laboratory in classroom and workshop settings.

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"I strongly recommend Public Budgeting Laboratory as a teaching tool for municipal budgeting/finance courses in M.P.A. programs as well as for shorter training courses."

Universities that have adopted the Public Budgeting Laboratory publications include:

• American University
• California State University - Long Beach
• Cleveland State University
• East Carolina University
• New York University
• Rutgers University - Newark
• Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
• Syracuse University
• Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of Florida
• University of Georgia
• University of Houston
• University of Louisville
• University of New Orleans
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• University of North Carolina - Wilmington
• University of Pennsylvania
• Wichita State University