The Vocabulary of Government Finance Management is a complete revision of the Budgetary, Accounting and Financial Vocabulary published in 1987. This new reference work contains 2 900 entries, including some 2 400 concepts and 920 definitions. It reflects new ways of doing business and new realities in the federal Public Service relating to financial administration.

History of International Institute of Public Finance by Karl W. Roskamp (p. 1-17) and Fifty years of public finance by Richard A. Musgrave (p. 19-50). Deals among other things with the fiscal role in distribution, problems in tax structure, international tax coordination, incidence and effects of taxation, efficiency cost of taxation, expenditure analysis, and fiscal federalism.