This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in P12 public education. It presents new and aspiring P12 educational leaders with the fundamental knowledge and skills to supervise analyze and implement budgets that make the best and most effective use of limited resources. By exploring the foundational elements of fiscal administration and outlining the process stepbystep this text carefully takes leaders through realworld examples and includes myriad opportunities for application. Indeed a major goal of this text is to provide readers with a set of technical skills that can be applied across a range of contexts. Our expectation is that current and future P12 budget managers and educational leaders will find this text invaluable in their daytoday work and that the material presented here will help them engage in fruitful decisions around the allocation of scare resources.