Robert H. Burger

Financial Management of Libraries and Information Centers (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Covering everything from auditing and budgeting to contracts, revenue and expenditures, forecasting, and ethics in financial management, this book addresses the full spectrum of topics and skills needed by today's library managers. Many library managers learn financial management on the job, within the framework of a specific organization. The "sink or swim" method of skill acquisition can be effective, but it is inefficient, stressful, and typically leaves one lacking in foundational concepts and principles. This book provides a logical, organized way for library school students, librarians, and others such as library board members to gain the specific knowledge critical to the financial management of libraries and information centers. This book covers the full spectrum of topics and skills needed by today's managers-from the basics of budgeting, accounting, and financial statements to audits, forecasting, risk management, and revenue sources. There are even chapters on ethical considerations and advocacy. The skills readers will learn from this guide are of critical importance in this era of financial constraints and accountability at every level of the organization. Students in management and financial management courses and practicing library managers seeking to improve their financial management skills will find this book an essential tool for success.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440850141
• Artikelnr.: 68184597

Autorenporträt

Robert H. Burger, PhD, is professor emeritus, university library and adjunct professor, School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Introduction SECTION I: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Chapter 1: Financial
Management as Information Management Chapter 2: Novice Financial
Management: Your First Budget Chapter 3: Basic Financial Statements Chapter
4: The Accounting Process, or How Financial Statements are Produced Chapter
5: How Governmental Financial Statements Differ from Not-for-Profit and
For-Profit Financial Statements Chapter 6: Other Elements of Financial
Statements and Financial Statement Analysis Chapter 7: Internal Control and
Auditing of Financial Statements SECTION II: BUDGETING Chapter 8:
Estimation, Forecasting and Financial Risk Management Chapter 9: Budgets:
General Aspects Chapter 10: Budgets: Heuristics, Choice Architectures, and
Decision Traps Chapter 11: Capital Budgeting SECTION III: REVENUES Chapter
12: Time Value of Money Chapter 13: Revenue Sources: Tax Revenue Chapter
14: Bonds and Their Role in Revenue for Capital Projects and Other Areas
Chapter 15: Revenue Sources: Tuition, Grants, Gifts and Fundraising, Fees
and Fines SECTION IV: EXPENDITURES Chapter 16: Contract Basics Chapter 17:
Expenditures: Personnel Chapter 18: Expenditures: Collections Chapter 19:
Expenditures: IT, Facilities, and Other Operating Expenses SECTION V: COST
ACCOUNTING IN LIBRARIES Chapter 20: Cost Accounting: General Aspects, Types
of Costs, Cost Calculations Chapter 21: Cost Accounting: Role in
Measurement and Evaluation of Services Chapter 22: Cost Accounting:
Activity Based Costing Chapter 23: Cost Accounting: Differential Costing
and Break Even Analysis SECTION VI: MARKETING AND COMMUNITY TRUST Chapter
24: Marketing, Public Affairs, and Development Chapter 25: Ethics and
Financial Management SECTION VII: CONCLUSION Chapter 26: Conclusion
Glossary Index