POSC 523 - Public Finance and Budgeting (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Describe processes by which national, state, local and public organization budgets are prepared, administered and managed
• Ability to apply proper budgeting practices rules and regulations
• Categorization of the correct forms of public expenditures
• Identification of the various forms of public budgeting approaches used by various governmental organizations and across time (incrementalism, PBB, ZBB, etc.)
• Classification of the different components of a public budget
• Devise and formulate, then produce, hypothetical budget for public organization
• Compare and contrast budget processes in the private and public sectors
• Evaluate US budget and budget process from normative and analytical perspectives