Reliable School Budget Forecasts: Seven Tools that Work.

Miller, Linda DeMarco; McClure, Maureen W.

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ERIC Number: EJ382028

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Publication Date: 1988

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Reliable School Budget Forecasts: Seven Tools that Work.

Miller, Linda DeMarco; McClure, Maureen W.

School Business Affairs, v54 n11 p16-19 Nov 1988

To increase the reliability of forecasting school district income and expenditures, school business managers should clarify the purpose and time frame of the forecast; be sure the basic data are accurate; specify the assumptions; be consistent in calculation; examine data critically; and recognize that forecasting requires insight and intuition. (MLF)

Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Politics of Education, Prediction, Public Schools, School Accounting, School Business Officials, School District Spending, School Funds, School Taxes

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