Author: Ralph H. Hess

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781390259636

Excerpt from The Cost of Government in Minnesota and Analysis of Municipal Receipts and Disbursements: Being Chapters XXII and XXIII of the Second Biennial Report of the Minnesota Tax Commission It would not be difficult to formulate a plan of accounts, reports and audits for federal, state and local units Of government which would yield at any time an accurate statistical synthesis of public finances or a complete analysis of the cost of government over any given' period. The initial task, however, must deal with the situa tion as it lies, and necessitates in the beginning the application Of statistical methods to such transformation Of existing accounts as will most expediently represent or measure the costs Of current gov ernment. Unfortunately, the prevailing practice in public account ing is illy adapted to. The 'methods and objects of descriptive pub licity. In many cases archaic systems of public records are perpetu ated by statutory provisions and municipal charters and are prac tically useless in the analysis of significant factors Of revenue and expenditure; the weight of custom and. Official inertia is always Op posed-to change, and Official efficiency is Often sacrificed to a mis taken policy Of economy or political preferment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.