Management Policies in Local Government Finance, Sixth Edition offers a thorough grounding in all the principles of financial management, as well as a review of the financial policies and practices used by local governments in the United States today.

“I think the challenges that most managers are facing have roots in the fact that most of the public really does not understand what a municipal or county manager does and, equally important, the role that he or she plays in the success of a well-run community and the residents’ daily lives,” says Bennett.