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Crawford School of Public Policy · ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
This course is available for in-person and remote (online) learning. Public Financial Management covers a range of resource management practices that underpin policy-making in contemporary government, including fiscal rules to guide government spending and borrowing, multi-year expenditure frameworks that capture the longer-term impacts of current policy decisions, and performance-based budgeting to inform the level and relative priority of funding allocations. This unit introduces key conceptual and practical knowledge to integrate financial and non-financial performance in the public sector, and how to apply it to generate public value. This course is only available to students enrolled in the Executive Master of Public Administration.
42 hours of class contact, and an additional 80 hours of private study
Preliminary Reading Allen, R. and Tommasi, D. 2001. Managing Public Expenditures: A Reference Book for Transition Countries. Paris: OECD. Bandy, G. 2015. Financial Management and Accounting in the Public Sector. Second Edition. London: Routledge. Bouckaert, G. and Halligan, J. 2007. Managing Performance: International Comparisons. London: Routledge. Boston, J., Martin, J., Pallot, J. and Walsh, P. 1996. Public Management: The New Zealand Model. Auckland: Oxford University Press. Forster, J. and Wanna, J. 1990. Budgetary Management and Control: The Public Sector in Australasia. Melbourne: Macmillan. Heclo, H. and Wildavsky, A. 1974. The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy Inside British Politics. London: Macmillan. Hood, C. and Dixon, R. 2015. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Olson, O., Guthrie, J. and Humphrey, C. 1998. Global Warning! Debating International Developments in New Public Financial Management. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag. Pollitt, C. and Bouckaert, G. 2011. Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis. New Public Management, Governance and the Neo-Weberian State. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Savoie, D. 1990. The Politics of Public Spending in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Schick, A. 1996. The Spirit of Reform: Managing the New Zealand State Sector in a Time of Change. Wellington: State Services Commission and Treasury. Shah, A. 2007. Ed. Budgeting and Budgetary Institutions. Washington DC: World Bank. Thain, C. and Wright, M. 1995. The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure1976-1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Wanna, J., Kelly, J. and Forster, J. 2000. Managing Public Expenditure in Australia. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Wanna, J., Jensen, L. and de Vries, J. 2003. Controlling Public Expenditure: The Changing Roles Central Budget Agencies. Better Guardians? Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Wanna, J., Jensen, L. and de Vries, J. 2010. The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations: Trajectories and Consequences. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Wanna, J., Lindquist, E. and de Vries, J. 2015. The Global Financial Crisis and it Budget Impacts in OECD Nations: Fiscal Responses and Future Challenges. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Willoughby, K. 2014. Public Budgeting in Context: Structure, Law, Reform and Results. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass World Bank. 1998. Public Expenditure Management Handbook. Washington DC: World Bank.