HOWARD A. FRANK is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Florida International University. He is a former planner with the Broward County Office of Planning and Management Review Specialist with the Florida Department of Health and Human Services, and has served as a consultant to local, state, and nonprofit agencies. Professor Frank has published extensively in the area of public financial management and productivity in such journal as The American Review of Public Administration, Public Budgeting and Financial Management, State and Local Government Review, and Public Productivity and Management Review.

• Preface Introduction Establishing a Framework for Forecast Improvement Nonextrapolative Approaches and Long-Range Forecasting Time Series Methods: Part I Time Series Models Part: II: The Box-Jenkins ARIMA Approach Time Series Models Part III: Forecast and Program Monitoring An Introduction to Causal Approaches Forecast Implementation: A Divide and Conquer Approach Index

HOWARD A. FRANK is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Florida International University. He is a former planner with the Broward County Office of Planning and Management Review Specialist with the Florida Department of Health and Human Services, and has served as a consultant to local, state, and nonprofit agencies. Professor Frank has published extensively in the area of public financial management and productivity in such journal as The American Review of Public Administration, Public Budgeting and Financial Management, State and Local Government Review, and Public Productivity and Management Review.

• Preface Introduction Establishing a Framework for Forecast Improvement Nonextrapolative Approaches and Long-Range Forecasting Time Series Methods: Part I Time Series Models Part: II: The Box-Jenkins ARIMA Approach Time Series Models Part III: Forecast and Program Monitoring An Introduction to Causal Approaches Forecast Implementation: A Divide and Conquer Approach Index