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Kevin E. O'Brien is the Executive Director of the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. He has taught Public Finance and Municipal Budgeting courses at CSU. He is a former public finance aide in the Mayor's Office in New York City, and a financial analyst with Moody's Investors Service on Wall Street. He holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning and Development Finance from Columbia University.

Philip M. Brett is a public finance professional serving as Finance Director for four greater Cleveland cities and a Budget Analyst with the City of Cleveland. He teaches Accounting and Municipal Budgeting at CSU. He holds a Master's degree in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Kyle Julien, Ph.D. is a Research Associate with the Great Lakes Environmental Finance Center. Dr. Julien is coordinating the GLEFC Financial Condition of Ohio's Local Jurisdictions project. He holds a Doctorate in U.S. History from the University of California, Irvine.

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Public Financial Analysis is both a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and a guidebook for practitioners, on the methods, tools, and metrics utilized in public sector financial analysis. The book instructs readers on how to use local government financial records to produce financial and economic benchmarks to track the financial condition of cities, to follow the economic base, revenue, expenditure, operating position, and debt trends to help define the financial condition of local governments. The book will provide readers with the framework, methods, and tools to analyze the finances of a city and define its financial condition.