Budgeting

Describe your company’s annual budget process. If you don’t know how the budget process works, how can you find out? Discuss this with your manager or, if possible, someone in the finance department who oversees budgeting for your department/division. What is your involvement in the process? What works well? What doesn’t work? If you were … Read more

Budgeting & Control

     This is Master Budget Case:  · You must answer all the questions. · When solving problems, you must clearly explain all the steps you are doing, and why are you making those steps. · Show all your workings, a numeric answer is not enough. You should provide a document in Excel format showing all … Read more

Deterioration of infrastructure

Hide Folder InformationInstructions Discuss the concerns many have over the consequences of deterioration in the condition of the U.S.’s physical infrastructure base, including highways, bridges, and water and sewer systems. Include in the discussion the relative roles of the federal government versus state and local governments in financing infrastructure over the last 30 or more … Read more

Subsystems of Budget Control

Hide Folder InformationInstructions What are the four subsystems of budget execution?  Describe the purpose of each one briefly, and then choose one of these and identify its principal objectives, benefits, and challenges.

Subsystems and Budget Control

Hide Folder InformationInstructions What are the four subsystems of budget execution?  Describe the purpose of each one briefly, and then choose one of these and identify its principal objectives, benefits, and challenges.

Budget Cuts

Hide Folder InformationInstructions Local, state, and federal governments sometimes consider across-the-board budget cuts during difficult economic times. For this assignment, please complete the following: PART ONE Answer the following questions: Describe what is meant by across-the-board budget cuts. The author of the course text suggests that across-the-board budget cuts are poor fiscal policy? Why does … Read more

Gambling with Revenues

Instructions In chapter 6 of the course text, the author writes:  “Many states rely on revenue from gambling to finance a portion of state government services. While most states do not raise much money from gambling, games of chance have been a growth industry for states.” What’s more… “As the result of a 2018 Supreme … Read more