TY - BOOK AU - Guess, George M. TI - Government budgeting: a practical guidebook SN - 9781438456669 AV - HJ 2161 .G84 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - [Place of publication not identifed] PB - [publisher not identified] KW - BUDGET 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 -