Description
Greg G. Chen is associate professor at Baruch College School of Public Affairs, City University of New York. He was a manager of the budgeting and financial reporting department in the Ministry of Finance, and budget manager and senior policy adviser for the Premier’s Office of British Columbia, Canada, before taking his professorship in the United States. He had previously been an associate dean in the College of WISCO in China. Professor Chen conducts research and publishes papers in the areas of budgeting and financial management for nonprofit organizations and governments, program evaluation and cost-benefit analysis of diverse public programs, and comparisons of the health care systems and finance in Canada, the United States, and China. Part 1: Introduction Module 1: The Craft of Budgeting Part 2: Budget Tools Module 2: Organizing Budget Data Module 3: Fixed and Variable Costs Module 4: Breakeven Analysis Module 5: Cost Allocation Module 6: Time Value of Money Module 7: Inflation Module 8: Sensitivity Analysis Module 9: Integrating Budgeting With Performance Part 3: The Budget Process Module 10: The Budget Process: An Overview Module 11: The Budget Document Module 12: Determining the Baseline Budget Module 13: Decision Packages: Cost Estimates Module 14: Decision Packages: Budget Justifications Module 15: Budget Cutbacks Module 16: Legislative Budget Tools Part 4: Capital Budgeting and Asset Management Module 17: Cost-Benefit Analysis Module 18: Life Cycle Costing Module 19: Capitalization and Depreciation Module 20: Long-Term Financing Module 21: Investment Strategies Part 5: Budget Implementation Module 22: Operating Plan and Variance Analysis Module 23: Cash Management and Internal Controls Module 24: Forecasting and Managing Cash Flow Module 25: Government and Nonprofit Accounting Module 26: Financial Statement Analysis Part 6: Advanced Tools Module 27: Calculating Payroll Module 28: Basic Forecasting Concepts Module 29: Forecasting Intermediate Forecasting Module 30: Forecasting Advanced Intermediate Methods
