Bøger af Edward Anthony Lehan

In this comprehensive essay on best practices for government budget officers, author Edward Anthony Lehan discusses budgeting as a craft rather than an art requiring virtuoso talent. This distinction is important because "craftsmanship" implies that the intellectual and practical aspects of budgeting can be codified and that the requisite knowledge and skill can be taught and learned. Lehan strikes a critical note in the opening paragraph by identifying the necessity to ration scarce resources as the focus of the occupation. Governments employ budget officers to help publicly accountable officials ration the resources made available to them by the society they serve. Because the rationing process is inherently competitive in nature, good budget officers are particularly concerned with equity. Their recommendations must rest on a deserved reputation for impartial analysis. Lehan explores in depth the prescriptive task of rendering judgments on the merits of public programs through the application of certain standards, concepts, and measurements that emphasize efficacy and reduce subjectivity. In examining key concepts, defining various roles, and providing models of effective thinking and practice for an array of concerns within the typical budget cycle, Budgetary Thought for Budget Officers promotes a dynamic intellectual approach to budget implementation.

With today's technological advances, public finance officers have less to process on their own and more time to dedicate to the overall picture. An essential and crucial part of the picture is management. If you're one of these public finance officers, this book is an essential read. Though you're technically already qualified for your role, there's always room to grow-especially in the realm of leadership and management. This is both a how-to and a how-to-think guide, and in it, Edward Anthony Lehan proposes and proves how models of management thinking and subsequent behavior can aid in the productivity of your supervision of finance-related service units. When you begin to view your supervisory role as a management role-which Lehan argues it certainty is-then you can use the strategic concepts inherent in managerial models to better address issues of cost, availability, and productivity. In using values like those of the efficacy triad, you can better recover public capital and develop yourself into a better leader. For anyone in the public finance industry, this book is required reading.

First published in 1981, this revised, expanded edition of Budgetary Thought for School Officials, first published in 1982, provides a commentary concerning the intellectual foundations of budgetary craftsmanship, applied to education. Given the contemporary stress on educational institutions, educators need models of appropriate thinking centered on the key task of rationing scarce resources. This book identifies habits of mind and supporting practices that help educators allocate scarce resources to the most effective educational techniques advancing student achievement and attainment.This slender volume is addressed to elected and appointed educators who have finance and budget responsibilities, especially those who lead the public schools. It goes beyond expenditures, as one might expect in a book about budgeting. It is, rather, a book about mental qualities and methodical work, done to exacting standards. Its recommended approach provides educators, institution by institution, with decision-making machinery and implementation instruments that can help them. Budgetary Thought for School Officials is refreshing, illuminating and useful. No educator should be without it! Josephine Genovese, Former Chairperson, School Board, City of Rochester, NY