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Financial management of libraries and information centers / Robert H. Burger with Margaret B. Edwards, Nell B. Kirst, and Sarah B. Wilds.

By: Burger, Robert H. (Robert Harold), 1947- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Libraries Unlimited, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017Description: xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781440850134 (acidfree paper)Subject(s): Library finance -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Libraries -- United States -- Accounting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Information services -- United States -- Finance -- Handbooks, manuals, etcAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Financial management of libraries and information centersDDC classification: 025.1/10973 LOC classification: Z683.2.U6 | B91 2017
Contents:
Section I. Financial statements -- 1. Financial management as information management -- 2. Novice financial management : your first budget and questions you should ask about it -- 3. Basic financial statements -- 4. The accounting process: how financial statements are produced -- 5. How governmental financial statements differ from nonprofit and for-profit financial statements -- 6. Other elements of financial statements and financial statement analysis -- 7. Internal control and auditing of financial statements: ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial statements and preventing fraud -- Section II. Budgeting -- 8. Estimation, forecasting and financial risk management -- 9. Budgets : general aspects -- 10. Budgets : budgets, behavioral economics, and decision traps: choice architectures, heuristics, and biases -- 11. Capital budgeting -- Section III. Revenue -- 12. Time value of money: simple interest, compound interest, and annuities -- 13. Revenue sources : tax revenue -- 14. Revenue sources: Bonds and their role in capital projects and operating expenses -- 15. Revenue sources : tuition, grants, gifts, fees, fines and entrepreneurial activities-- Section IV. Expenditures -- 16. Contract basics -- 17. Expenditures : personnel -- 18. Expenditures : collections -- 19. Expenditures : IT, facilities, and other operating expenses -- Section V. Cost accounting in libraries -- 20. Cost accounting : general aspects, types of costs, and calculations -- 21. Cost accounting : role in measurement and evaluation of services -- 22. Cost accounting : activity based costing -- 23. Cost accounting : cost estimation, break-even analysis, life-cycle costing, differential costing, leasing, and outsourcing -- Section VI. Marketing and community trust -- 24. Marketing, public affairs, and development: communicating the library's value -- 25. Ethics and financial management.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Financial statements -- 1. Financial management as information management -- 2. Novice financial management : your first budget and questions you should ask about it -- 3. Basic financial statements -- 4. The accounting process: how financial statements are produced -- 5. How governmental financial statements differ from nonprofit and for-profit financial statements -- 6. Other elements of financial statements and financial statement analysis -- 7. Internal control and auditing of financial statements: ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial statements and preventing fraud -- Section II. Budgeting -- 8. Estimation, forecasting and financial risk management -- 9. Budgets : general aspects -- 10. Budgets : budgets, behavioral economics, and decision traps: choice architectures, heuristics, and biases -- 11. Capital budgeting -- Section III. Revenue -- 12. Time value of money: simple interest, compound interest, and annuities -- 13. Revenue sources : tax revenue -- 14. Revenue sources: Bonds and their role in capital projects and operating expenses -- 15. Revenue sources : tuition, grants, gifts, fees, fines and entrepreneurial activities-- Section IV. Expenditures -- 16. Contract basics -- 17. Expenditures : personnel -- 18. Expenditures : collections -- 19. Expenditures : IT, facilities, and other operating expenses -- Section V. Cost accounting in libraries -- 20. Cost accounting : general aspects, types of costs, and calculations -- 21. Cost accounting : role in measurement and evaluation of services -- 22. Cost accounting : activity based costing -- 23. Cost accounting : cost estimation, break-even analysis, life-cycle costing, differential costing, leasing, and outsourcing -- Section VI. Marketing and community trust -- 24. Marketing, public affairs, and development: communicating the library's value -- 25. Ethics and financial management.

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