Table of Contents

CONTENTS

List of illustrations

Foreword

Preface to the third edition

About the author

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 The context of public financial management

2 Public sector budgeting

3 Taxation and other sources of income

4 Budget execution

5 Using financial information to make decisions

6 Public procurement

7 Measuring performance and value for money

8 Accountability and financial reporting

9 Audit

Appendix A Budgeting in public enterprise: the State Social Security Fund of Sri Lanka

Suggested answers for exercises

Glossary of terms

Index

About the Author

Gary Bandy has been an independent public financial management consultant since 2005. He has advised organizations in the charity sector, education, policing, local government and the private sector. Gary has an MPA from Warwick Business School and has taught public financial management at several universities in the United Kingdom as well as sharing his expertise with civil servants in many places, including Rwanda, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.