Suchergebnisse

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments / Marshall, A. H. -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter I. Internal Organization of Local Authorities -- Chapter II. The Principles of Financial Administration -- Chapter III. The Finance Committee -- Chapter IV. The Chief Financial Officer -- Chapter V. The Chief Financial Officer's Department: General Considerations -- Chapter VI. The Chief Financial Officer's Department: Pattern of Organization -- Chapter VII. The Chief Financial Officer's Department: Recruitment and Training of Staff -- Chapter VIII. The Chief Financial Officer as Financial Adviser -- Chapter IX. The Chief Financial Officer as Accountant -- Chapter X. The Chief Financial Officer as Machine Accountant -- Chapter XI. The Chief Financial Officer as Internal Auditor -- Chapter XII. The Chief Financial Officer: Costing and Miscellaneous Duties -- Chapter XIII. The Role of the Clerk in Financial Administration -- Chapter XIV. The Financial Organization of Operating Departments -- Chapter XV. The Payment of Accounts -- Chapter XVI. The Collection of Income -- Chapter XVII. Purchasing and Contracting: I-General -- Chapter XVIII. Purchasing and Contracting: II-Engineering and Building Works -- Chapter XIX. The Principles and Form of the Budget -- Chapter XX. Budgetary Procedure -- Chapter XXI. Administering the Budget -- Chapter XXII. Internal Rules -- Appendices -- Table of Statutes, Orders and Regulations -- Index

AbstractWe all covet success, and most of us aspire to efficiency and economy in our practical undertaking, but few of us can agree on the criteria which measure success or efficiency. In the supplement to our February number, Messrs. Upson and Rightor, although aware that few would agree with them, undertook the courageious task of sponsoring certain standards of measurement of a city's financial administration. In the following letter to the editor they make reply to Francis Oakey's critical review which appeared in the "American city" for May.