Financial Resource Management

Budgeting and Financial Planning

Budgeting Overview and Massachusetts Requirements

• Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services
  • School Budgets, Special Funds and Financial Procedures Department of Revenue, Division of Local Services,
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Proposition 2 ½ and were afraid to ask
  • Costing Municipal Services (2005)
  • DLS Cities & Towns Index Page . Online newsletter from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
  • DLS Municipal Data Bank/Technical Assistance Bureau . Massachusetts Municipal Data Bank.
  • DLS Publication Index . Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
  • Massachusetts Department of Revenue Informational Guideline releases
    
• Department of Education
  • Advisory Memorandum on School District Reporting Requirements; July 26, 2000 (DOE)
  • New Function Codes For Implementation July 1, 2001 (DOE)
  • Guidelines for Student and Financial Reporting (DOE)
    
• Executive Office of Administration and Finance
• EOAF Administrative Bulletins

• Massachusetts State Auditor's Office
  • Massachusetts State Auditor Home Page
    

• Association of Town Finance Committees Handbook available for order
  

• Town Finance Committee/Appropriations Committee Schedule - (Town Manager/Mayor's Office)
  

• Town Meeting Schedule (Town Clerk)
  

• Massachusetts Municipal Association Finance Links
  

• School Fee Survey
  

• Making Cost-Effective Decisions: A Guide for Board Members, Administrators, and Teachers, by Brian O. Brent, School Business Affairs, April 2003 pp 12-14

Best Practices (MASBO Members Only Section)