This article deals with several techniques for regulating cash inflow and outflow and investing surplus cash for short periods of time. The techniques are: (1) consolidating checking accounts, (2) determining surplus cash by examining bank balances in conjunction with the cash book, (3) selecting a minimum bank balance, (4) investing a greater…

Planning Programming and Budgeting Systems (PPBS) have been considered as either synonymous with abstract, advanced, mathematical systems analysis or as an advanced accounting and control system. If PPBS is to perform a useful function, both viewpoints must be combined such that a number of standardized procedures and reports are required and…

A 48-item bibliography of references on Planning Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) is provided as a supplement to LI 002 740, as an aid for state planners. (AB)

Outlines the two opposing views of PPBS. (MB)

This bibliography is intended to inform administrators of the availability and wide scope of programming-planning-budgeting systems (PPBS) and their applications. The basic objectives of PPBS are: (1) to define jurisdictional objectives clearly and to relate them to defined needs and goals; (2) to stimulate the indepth analysis of all existing and…

This is a proposal submitted by the Ohio State University Research Foundation for design of a planning and assessment system for the Division of Manpower and Institutions (now Division of Research and Development Resources), U.S. Office of Education. It responds to a need for an expanded planning, management, and assessment system that would…

The three-part book takes a critical look at the rise and fall of management fads in higher education since the 1960s. Part 1 introduces the fad concept and analyzes the development of seven new management systems in higher education. The chapters for Part 1 include: Chapter 1 "Seeking the Grail: The Never-Ending Quest"; chapter 2…

The problem was a study of the development of a business education model for methods and procedures in Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS). (Author)

Program budgeting is a system that focuses on outcomes rather than on inputs, relates resources to outcomes, includes more than one time interval in the budget document, and states outcomes in measurable terms. If the assumptions underlying program budgeting are accepted, the system can be an effective tool for identifying new ways to do jobs…

This document explores the planning, programming, and budgeting system concept. Emphasis is placed on the establishment of a coding structure, the impact of timing, the impact of course decisions on resource utilization, the impact of course decisions on space utilization, and the 12 College Cost Quality Study. (MJM)

In this discussion of the systems approach to educational change, the author discusses the programing, planning, budgeting, and evaluation aspects of a system for the management of educational resources. Four common misconceptions about PPBES are considered: (1) that PPBES can make decisions, (2) that costs can be completely quantitifed, (3) that…

This document illustrates one approach to the preparation of an instructional program budget and how it might be used to enhance the allocation of scarce resources in higher education. The ideas presented here are intended only as an introduction and will provide the reader with a brief overview of program budgeting as the term is currently used…

The Resource Requirements Prediction Model (RRPM) 1.6 is an instructional cost simulation model for use in all types of postsecondary institutions including community colleges, vocational schools, and large and small 4-year institutions with or without major research activities. The model provides institutions with a tool with which to analyze…

A description of Iowa's new accounting procedure that has the capability to accommodate the smallest as well as the largest schools in the state. (Author/MLF)