TY - JOUR AU1 - Giannatasio, Nicholas A. AB - J. OF PUBLIC BUDGETING, ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12(4), 566-646 WINTER 2000 SYMPOSIUM ON THE PRACTICE AND UTILITY OF FINANCIAL DECISION MAKING TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES, PART I Editor: Nicholas A. Giannatasio This symposium is dedicated to the memory of Marcia Lynn Whicker, Chair, Graduate Department of Public Administration at Rudgers, the State University of New Jersey. Professor Whicker was a scholar and an advocate for her students and served on the Editorial Board of Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management. She will be missed by all who came in contact with her. We are proud to include her final article in this symposium. Copyright © 2000 by PrAcademics Press J. OF PUBLIC BUDGETING, ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12(4), 567-568 WINTER 2000 Nicholas A. Giannatasio* Financial decision makers have been engaged in solving the riddle posed by V. O. Key in 1949--how do we allocate funds to one program instead of the other? Over the years we have probed Key’s riddle and transformed it into an enigma. This symposium explores this enigma further and deepens the mystery by adding the consideration of how we decide to obtain the funds as well as allocate them. Are we closer to TI - Symposium introduction JF - Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management DO - 10.1108/JPBAFM-12-04-2000-B003 DA - 2000-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/symposium-introduction-l03mnepGgz SP - 567 EP - 568 VL - 12 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -