Understanding Finance for Emergency Service Organizations
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©2026, 264 pages
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Understanding Finance for Emergency Service Organizations provides readers with a framework for grasping and applying the principles of finance within their organizations. Centering around management theory and financial best practices, the book assesses both leadership and management roles, emphasizing their different functions within an organization. The text offers pragmatic knowledge applicable to the day-to-day fiscal operations of emergency service organizations and contingency planning for diverse emergency scenarios.
The book explores a variety of finance-related topics, exploring economic concepts, fiscal program creation, budgeting, purchasing, activity analysis, and risk financing. The book also explores the specifics of auditing and the financial responsibilities inherent to disaster scenarios within emergency services, equipping future emergency service managers with the insight to navigate financial challenges during high-pressure situations.
Understanding Finance for Emergency Service Organizations is ideal for courses in emergency services management, public administration, and organizational leadership. It is especially pertinent for individuals who are stepping into supervisory roles or those responsible for the financial oversight of emergency service entities.
The book explores a variety of finance-related topics, exploring economic concepts, fiscal program creation, budgeting, purchasing, activity analysis, and risk financing. The book also explores the specifics of auditing and the financial responsibilities inherent to disaster scenarios within emergency services, equipping future emergency service managers with the insight to navigate financial challenges during high-pressure situations.
Understanding Finance for Emergency Service Organizations is ideal for courses in emergency services management, public administration, and organizational leadership. It is especially pertinent for individuals who are stepping into supervisory roles or those responsible for the financial oversight of emergency service entities.
Dennis Mitterer is a fire and emergency services instructional professor and advisor in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management at the University of Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in leadership and organizational change from Walden University focusing on the effects of a leader’s behavior on employee job satisfaction, productivity, engagement, and turnover.
Heather Mitterer is an adjunct faculty instructor of human resources and law at Franklin University, an adjunct faculty instructor industrial/organizational psychology at Purdue Global, the assistant director of human resources for the City of Gainesville, and the CEO of Mitterer Enterprises. She holds a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Walden University and a Juris Master in employment law and human resources risk management from the Florida State University College of Law.
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