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Taken together, the chapters provide an unusually coherent conceptual foundation for budgeting as a legitimate field of study, and demonstrate yet again that in its current state the field is truly eclectic but compartmentalized.

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A hands-on treatment of two of the elements in the operation of any organization: cost and optimization.

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To have a clear picture of developments in public financial management, a multidimensional perspective of the field is needed, since governmentsunlike for-profit organizations serve multiple and often conflicting interests.