This book takes an applied approach to budgeting and fiscal administration in higher education. It presents new and aspiring leaders in higher education and student affairs 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 higher education and student affairs 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.