Helping public sector managers get value for money from their budgets
A blog about public financial management: the fine art of managing public money to deliver vital services to the public. It involves budgeting, accounting, controlling, auditing, reporting, policy-making and decision-taking.
As part of the promotion of the upcoming third edition of Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector, I wrote a list of five books about how governments collect and spend your taxes. Check it out at https://shepherd.com/best-books/how-governments-collect-and-spend-your-taxes
Read MoreMy new book, _International Public Financial Management: Essentials of Public Sector Accounting_ to give it its full title, was published at the very end of December. If you want a copy of the book this is the official page on the publisher’s website. You can also buy if from Amazon, of course.
Read MoreOver the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a small e-book about procurement in the public sector as a learning exercise. This is not learning how to write a book, but how to get a manuscript formatted as an e-book, with a cover, etc and uploaded to a platform for sale. It turns out that it is fairly easy to do but, like many things, the first time you do it takes a lot longer.
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