Crashing through with Accrual-Output Price Budgeting in Australia: Technical Adjustment or a New Way of Doing Business?

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-111

  Kelly, Joanne ^a,c   Wanna, John ^b,d  

^a Griffith University ^*

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Government of Canada   (Canada)

^d Research Centre for Governance   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accrual output budgeting; Budgetary reform; Comparative public sector management

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342447996     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074003253315     Document Type: Review

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