Budgetary Forecasting in Local Government: New Tools and Techniques

Preface Introduction Establishing a Framework for Forecast Improvement Nonextrapolative Approaches and Long-Range Forecasting Time Series Methods: Part I Time Series Models Part: II: The Box-Jenkins ARIMA Approach Time Series Models Part III: Forecast and Program Monitoring An Introduction to Causal Approaches Forecast Implementation: A Divide and Conquer Approach Index