Effective Financial Planning for Library and Information Services (Aslib Know How Guide)

✍ Scribed by Duncan Mckay

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 78
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This title is a concise guide to financial planning, with definitions of financial terms and the key processes involved, which also provides tips on how to present your budget most effectively to secure funding. As pressures of business increasingly affect all information functions, it has become ever more important to be able to justify the costs involved in running any form of information function. This second edition covers budgetary implications related to developments in information source provision.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 7
Dedication......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Budgeting......Page 15
Costing......Page 34
Reporting and accouting......Page 40
Access versus purchase......Page 48
Software packages......Page 50
Organisations......Page 54
Further reading......Page 58
Appendix A......Page 65
Appendix B......Page 68
Index......Page 73