Description |
179 pages ; 22 cm. |
Series |
Haworth health and social policy |
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Haworth health and social policy.
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Contents |
The Need for Financial Management in Social Service Agencies -- Utilizing Financial Management -- Chapter 1. Financial Management in Social Service Agencies -- History of Financial Management in Social Service Organizations -- Development of Financial Management Systems in Social Service Agencies -- Impact on Administrative Decisions and Operations -- Questions of Costs and Benefits -- Budgetary Modifications for Social Service Agencies -- Chapter 2. A Framework for a Financial Management System -- FMS Supports for Administrative Decisions -- FMS Supports for Administrative Subsystems -- Chapter 3. The Fiscal Subsystem -- Purposes and Functions of the Fiscal Subsystem -- Accounting Principles and Methods -- Identifying Information Providers and Prospective Users -- Direct and Indirect Costs -- Budget Development Steps -- Chapter 4. The Service Coordination Subsystem -- Management Control Through Service Coordination -- Scope of Management Control -- Performance in Service Delivery -- Costs of Service Coordination -- Costs of Benefits: Results -- Organizational Adaptation for Management Control -- Steps Toward Management Control Within the Same Organization and Among Organizations -- Chapter 5. The Program Planning Subsystem -- Purposes and Functions of Program Planning -- Goal Assessment and Formation -- Capacity of an FMS to Support Program Planning -- Implementation of Program Planning -- Operationalization of Program Goals -- Goal Setting to Performance Standards Setting -- Steps Toward Corrective Actions in Program Planning -- Chapter 6. The Program Evaluation Subsystem -- Purposes and Functions of Program Evaluation -- Measurement Issues for Program Success -- Factors Affecting Design and Measurement of Program Success and Costs -- Program Evaluation Design -- Program Development and Evaluative Criteria Issues -- Informational Needs and Types of Information Generated -- Corrective Actions by Administrators -- Chapter 7. Computerization of the Financial Management System -- Data Management -- Information Management -- Chapter 8. Applications and Exercises -- Organizational Health -- Tailoring the Financial Management System -- Administrative Support -- Computation of Unit Costs -- Computation of Program Costs -- Costs of Service Coordination -- Determination of Service Needs -- Program Planning -- Exercise in Computation of Direct Services -- Exercise in Computation of Staff Time on Each Type of Service -- Projected Budget to the End of the Year -- Evaluation of Programs -- Examination of Program Changes. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Subject |
Human services -- Finance.
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Social service -- Finance.
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Social work administration.
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Added Author |
Li, Peter.
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ISBN |
0789001314 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0789005697 paperback |
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