Budgeting, Financial Management, and Acquisition Reform in the U.S. Department of Defense (Research in Public Management) - Softcover

Jones, Lawrence R.; McCaffery, Jerry L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593118708 ISBN 13: 9781593118709

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

In this book we introduce the basics of the federal budget process, provide an historical background on the foundation and development of the budget process, indicate how defense spending may be measured and how it impacts the economy, describe and analyze how Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) operates and should function to produce the annual defense budget proposal to Congress, analyze the role of Congress in debating and deciding on defense appropriations and the politics of the budgetary process including the use of supplemental appropriations to fund national defense, analyze budget execution dynamics, identify the principal participants in the defense budget process in the Pentagon and military commands, assess federal and Department of Defense (DoD) financial management and business process challenges and issues, and describe the processes used to resource acquisition of defense war fighting assets, including reforms in acquisition and linkages between PPBES and the defense acquisition process.

About this title

About the Author

JERRY L. McCAFFERY is Professor of Financial Management and Budgeting, Department of Administrative Sciences, the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593118708
• ISBN 13: 9781593118709
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736