| Preface and outline | |
| Part 1 - Government budgeting and accounting | |
| 1. Government and its role in the economy | |
| 2. Budgeting and public sector reform | |
| 3. The Commonwealth budget cycle | |
| 4. Accounting in government | |
| Part 2 - Spreadsheet use and modeling | |
| 5. Basic spreadsheet use and modeling | |
| 6. Staffing models and Markov processes | |
| 7. Constant price estimates | |
| Part 3 - Benefit-cost analysis | |
| 8. Introduction to benefit-cost analysis | |
| 9. Investment decisions - discounting | |
| 10. Project ranking and choice | |
| Part 4 - Costing and pricing | |
| 11. Costing - basic concepts | |
| 12. Costing - practical applications | |
| 13. Life cycle costing | |
| 14. Markets and pricing | |
| 15. Monopoly and pricing | |
| 16. Market failure and public goods | |
| Part 5 - Non-deterministic models | |
| 17. Strategy and public management | |
| 18. Modelling risk | |
| 19. Optimization - inventory models | |
| 20. Queuing processes | |
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Ian McAuley, University of Canberra |