Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-For-Profit Organizations - Finkler PhD, Steven A; Purtell, Robert M; Calabrese, Thad D; Smith, Daniel L

One of the few texts that addresses financial and managerial accounting within the three major areas of the public sector. Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit provides the fundamentals of financial management for those pursuing careers within the public, health and not-for-profit fields. With a unique presentation that explains the rules specific to the public sector, this book outlines the framework for students to access and apply financial information more effectively. This edition has added the expertise of new coauthors Bob Purtell (financial markets and health care financial management), Thad Calabrese (not-for-profit and government financial management) and Dan Smith (government area), and includes a new chapter devoted to case studies.

"Dr. Steven A. Finkler" is Professor of Public and Health Administration, Accounting, and Financial Management at New York University's (NYU) Robert F Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (NYU/Wagner). At NYU/Wagner he heads the specialization in health services financial management. An award-winning teacher and author, Dr. Finkler is engaged in a variety of research topics in the areas of economics and accounting.

Among his publications are sixteen books, several of which are "Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers," third Edition, (2003), "Budgeting Concepts for Nurse Managers," third Edition, (2001), and "Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations," second Edition, (with David Ward, 1999.). He has also published more than 200 articles in many journals, including "Health Services Research," the "Journal of Public Policy and Management," and "Healthcare Financial Management."

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics (dual major in Accounting and Finance) and Master of Science degree in Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His Master's degree in Economics and Doctorate in Business Administration were awarded by Stanford University.

Dr. Finkler, who is also a Certified Public Accountant, worked for several years as an auditor with Ernst and Young and was on the faculty of the Wharton School before joining NYU. He is a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management, the Editorial Board of "Health Care Management Review," and the Board of Governors of Daughters of Israel Geriatric Center. He served as Editor of "Hospital Cost Management &Accounting" for 12 years, and is a past member of the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He consults extensively, both around the country and abroad.

Daniel L. Smith is a father, poet, writer, teacher, counselor, and bee keeper, living in the midwestern foothill forests of the Ozarks. He has been writing poetry for over fifty years. Born and raised in the mountains of Appalachia, Smith's poetry dates back to his youth. In his twenties, he was a founding editor of Allegany Mountain Press, and a contributor in poetry to the Bread Loaf Writers' conference for three consecutive years in the 70's. A writer who teaches writing, he has taught at St. Bonaventure University, Miami University, and Lindenwood University, among others. He worked in commerce as a writer with diverse projects from technical writing and illustration, in his own woodworking and boat building and antique restoration business, and for the past twenty five years, as a counselor, program director, clinical consultant and mentor in the field of addictions. Although he is described as a contemplative psychotherapist, he maintains an active practice in St. Louis Missouri US. Smith is also a teacher of meditation and gains insight through teaching others how to be a counselor, use meditation as a therapeutic modality, and use drumming as cross cultural healing. His interest in complementary and alternative medicine led him to treatment free, natural, organic beekeeping, from which this current slim volume proceeds. Smith's other poetry collections include "The Prophetic Tempest," "Something Like The Cost of Darkness," and "Coming Home Late," and forthcoming "Without Thought of Return." His works in non fiction include "God, Gambling and Grace" (guidelines for counseling gamblers and their families); "The Fifteenth Night" (essays on shamanism); and "I Remember It Differently" (a memoire addressed to his children). Fiction includes "House Stories."