Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Explain the purpose of public sector budgeting.
- Describe how public sector budgeting reflects the policies of elected officials.
- Contrast Contrast micro-budgeting and macro-budgeting.
- Explain the value of local government professional management.
- Describe how ethical failures at the local government level can negatively affect a city.
- Explain the importance of public sector audits.
- Describe the importance of finding public sector waste, fraud, and abuse.
- Describe how local government budgeting can be highly political.
- Explain how the budget document is designed to plan expenditures and to maintain financial control.
- Explain why balancing a budget is a technical activity that modifies expenditures and revenues.
- Describe the tools for changing a budget once it is approved.
- Explain how changes in policy can change a budget.
- Describe how a legislative budget process is open to special interest groups.
- Explain variations in the budget process between states and cities.
- Identify reasons for obtaining citizen input in the local government budgeting process.
- Prepare an executive summary for a city’s budget document.
- Explain why public sector budgets change over time.
- Explain unfunded mandates.
- Explain the importance of communicating budget information to the public through an executive budget summary.
