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Financial Strategy for Public Managers

CC BY (Attribution)   English (United States)

Author(s): Sharon Kioko and Justin Marlowe

Subject(s): Public finance accounting

Institution(s): University of Washington

Last updated: 21/08/2024

Financial Strategy for Public Managers is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector. It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today’s effective public servants need to know. It starts “at the beginning” and assumes no prior knowledge or experience in financial management. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives. They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Unlike other public financial management texts, the authors also integrate foundational principles across the government, non-profit, and “hybrid/for-benefit” sectors. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation. The text also includes several large case studies appropriate for class discussion and/or graded assignments.

Critical Filipinx American Histories and their Artifacts

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Rick Bonus and UW AAS 360 2019 Students

Publisher: University of Washington Libraries

Last updated: 18/08/2024

The contents of this online book were created by Prof. Rick Bonus and his students as a final project for a course on “Critical Filipinx American Histories” in the Fall quarter of 2019 at the University of Washington, Seattle campus. In collaboration with the UW Libraries, the UW Burke Museum, and the UW Department of American Ethnic Studies, this book explores and reflects on the relationships between Filipinx American histories and selected artifacts at the Burke Museum. It is a class project that was made possible by the Allen Open Textbook Grant.

I'm All Ears

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)  69 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Jorge González Casanova

Subject(s): Language and Linguistics, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

Last updated: 16/08/2024

La France Sauvée ou le Tyran Détrôné: A Dramaturgical Casebook

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  17 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Olympe de Gouges

Editor(s): Angela Weaver

Subject(s): Theatre studies, Plays, playscripts, drama

Last updated: 15/08/2024

This digital humanities project is a digital dramaturgical casebook for the play, La France Sauvée, ou le Tyran détrôné (France Preserved, or the Tyrant Dethroned, 1792).  The dramaturgical casebook includes a master copy of the script as well as historical research pertaining to the playwright, cast members, timeline, places, costume and set design, and bibliography.

The Creative Process

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  38 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): ART480 Art Honors Fall 2020

Subject(s): The arts: general topics, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks, Paintings and painting, Photography and photographs, Interdisciplinary studies

Publisher: University of Washington

Last updated: 14/08/2024

This book was created by seniors in the 2020-2021 Art BA Departmental Honors program in the School of Art + Art History + Design, University of Washington, Seattle.
The students in the Honors in Art track come from the four concentrations of the
Division of Art:
3D4M: Ceramics + Glass + Sculpture,
Interdisciplinary Visual Arts,
Painting + Drawing,
and Photo/Media.

The book presents first-person accounts of the creative process by a diverse group of makers as they develop artwork, consistently question habits, meanings, and inspirations while interfacing the world during uncertain times.

Virtual REACH Program 2020

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  12 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman, Dr. Eric H. Chudler

Editor(s): Dr. Kristen Clapper Bergsman

Subject(s): Neurosciences, Biomedical engineering / Medical engineering, Medical ethics and professional conduct

Publisher: Center for Neurotechnology, University of Washington

Last updated: 14/08/2024