Budgets City of Austin's 2007-2008 Essay

Total Length: 1726 words ( 6 double-spaced pages)

Total Sources: 3

Page 1 of 6

The departmental and program breakdown of the information in the city of Detroit's budget does not provide quite the same level of detail or of annual change that the city of Austin's budget does, but this more than made up for by the ease of accessing what details are available, and by the different formats of the two cities' budgets almost necessitate these differences in clarity, but they do not entirely account for the lack of clarity in the city of Austin's budget. That budget is already organized by department and broken down into the individual programs; tabulating the department totals and providing a clear overview of the major expenditure and revenue items on the budget would not have entailed any undue extra effort.
The city of Detroit's budget clearly shows that both detail and overall clarity are entirely achievable in a municipal budget, making it both more effective and more efficient than the city of Austin's budget. There was, admittedly, a lot of redundancy to the city of Detroit's budget, but this largely what allows for the budget's ease of use (Stenberg 2007)......

Show More ⇣


     Open the full completed essay and source list


OR

     Order a one-of-a-kind custom essay on this topic


sample essay writing service

Cite This Resource:

Latest APA Format (6th edition)

Copy Reference
"Budgets City Of Austin's 2007-2008" (2009, November 08) Retrieved May 16, 2024, from
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/budgets-city-austin-2007-2008-17733

Latest MLA Format (8th edition)

Copy Reference
"Budgets City Of Austin's 2007-2008" 08 November 2009. Web.16 May. 2024. <
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/budgets-city-austin-2007-2008-17733>

Latest Chicago Format (16th edition)

Copy Reference
"Budgets City Of Austin's 2007-2008", 08 November 2009, Accessed.16 May. 2024,
https://www.aceyourpaper.com/essays/budgets-city-austin-2007-2008-17733