Budgeting and Forecasting

Financing the Future: Long-Term Financial Planning for Local Government

Financing the Future, Long-Term Financial Planning

"Transform Your Approach to Financial Management"

Faced with downward pressures on tax revenues, increasing expenditures, shifting demographics, as well as host of other complex challenges, local governments need a new approach to planning. Readers of Financing the Future will discover key features of a successful long-term financial plan; phases pivotal to plan implementation; and how to involve elected officials, staff, and citizens to create a plan that gets results that are valuable to their community. With this publication, you will learn how to achieve and maintain long-term financial sustainability.

Written By Shayne C. Kavanagh

2007. Paperbound. 256 pp.
LOC no. 2007928591
ISBN 0-89125-288-6
$40 members / $60 nonmembers

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An Elected Official’s Guide: Long-Term Financial Planning for Local Government
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  • Publication date: January 2007
  • Author: Shayne Kavanagh
  • Member price: $40.00
  • Non-member price: $60.00
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