This volume contains papers presented at The National Conference on Program Accounting for Public Schools held at The University of California at Los Angeles, in July 1968. The papers describe six public school expenditure classification systems designed to facilitate program budgeting and cost analysis. The account classification systems are those developed by (1) The Midwestern States Educational Information Project, (2) Philadelphia Public Schools, (3) St. Louis Public Schools, (4) Los Angeles City Schools, (5) The California Association of Public School Business Officers, and (6) Erick L. Lindman. In a summary of the conference discussion, 11 issues in the area of program accounting that were identified and discussed at the conference are reviewed. (HW)