Budget Tools: Financial Methods in the Public Sector

This book is like new. The book is recommended for learning about budgeting because there are step-by-step explanations and so many exercises from discussion questions as well as assignments that can help grasp the budgeting concept in broaden ways.

I purchased this book for a Master's level course. My expectations, since this book is about budgeting, were low of course. Instead, what I found was a well-written book with many real-world examples of the covered concepts. The author did a great job of making the content interesting. This is a book that you will want to keep after your course, as it has great material on a this complex topic.

This is a well structured book. Simple to follow the flow and the concepts.However, the book references exercises which don't exist in the text nor are on the book's webpage at Sage. The previous edition had a CD. Does this one? There is no mention anywhere of any access to the referred to exercises. This is a huge problem. Our professor is sending us the exercises, which she has access to via her instructor's webpages.What is this about? Why is there no reference anywhere to how students are supposed to get the exercises? If our professor was not giving us the exercises, I would rate this book a ")' or a "1".

This book was required for my budgeting course. I found it to be very confusing and not worth the read. You are better off finding other resources to find your information.

This was an optional book for one of my courses, and I am so happy that I chose to get it. It will be one that I keep and refer to in the future, I am sure. It gives definitions, examples, and formulas. It, honestly, seems more helpful in the real world than our required text was. My classmate is going to purchase it too even though we've finished that class.

The modules are short - really short. But they get to the point and they're practical. I love the no-nonsense, straight to what you need to know approach to this book that no other college text I've read has.

Book is good, but took forever to be delivered. That reflects on the seller though. Not the author.

Makes a boring and tedious subject easy to understand. Great for non finance or accounting people.