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• AJS 522 Entire Course
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• AJS 522 Week 1 DQ 1
• AJS 522 Week 1 DQ 2
• AJS 522 Week 1 Individual Assignment Expenditures
  and Revenues Matrix and Summary
• AJS 522 Week 2 DQ 1
• AJS 522 Week 2 DQ 2

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• AJS 522 Week 1 DQ 1
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• What is the decision process that leads to making
  important financial decisions? What factors are
  taken into account before making a decision?
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• What are some of the specific analytical tools
  used in public finance and budgeting? How are
  these tools effectively used within public and
  government agencies?

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• AJS 522 Week 1 DQ 2
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• Explain how budget formats channel thought.
  Explain how formats can direct thought to and
  highlight general policy matter, budget balancing
  issues, and improvement of the quality of
  government management.
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• Government accounting systems are different from
  business accounting systems. Why? Explain.

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• AJS 522 Week 1 Individual Assignment Expenditures
  and Revenues Matrix and Summary
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• Resources Matrix Worksheet, located on the
  student webpage. Create a matrix identifying the
  roles, expenditures, and revenue for the federal,
  state, and local levels of government. Select
  three revenue sources in public budgeting.
  Summarize and describe each revenue source and
  which fund the source should fall under or be
  tracked in.

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• AJS 522 Week 2 DQ 1
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• What are cost descriptors as they are applied to
  budgeting? How are these cost descriptors
  effectively used in the budgeting process?
  Explain.
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• What is Cost-Benefit analysis? How is
  Cost-Benefit analysis used at the different
  levels of public budgeting and governmental and
  nonprofit accounting? Explain.

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• AJS 522 Week 2 DQ 2
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• Compare and contrast line-item budgeting, program
  budgeting, and performance budgeting. Which one
  would you use? Explain why you would prefer one
  over another.
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• Budgeting is a continuous process. Explain this
  statement

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• AJS 522 Week 2 Policing in Kelsey Budget Report
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• Resources Review the City of Kelsey under the
  Government tab of the Virtual Organization site.
  Access the public records of Kelsey under the
  City Government to familiarize yourself with the
  citys budget and financial report. Review the
  following scenario You work as a budget director
  for the mayor of Kelsey and recently you have
  been getting numerous complaints from citizens
  about the increase in crime in the City of Kelsey
  and public demands for more police officers.

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• AJS 522 Week 3 DQ 1
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• How do you assess inventory, personnel, and
  infrastructure costs that affect the overall
  budget? Explain.
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• What are all of the required components of
  preparing a budget? Who is involved? What other
  external influences and considerations need to be
  taken into account?

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• AJS 522 Week 3 DQ 2
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• How is a budget managed and controlled? What are
  the various techniques and tools used? Explain.
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• What are the common pitfalls one can anticipate
  in budget execution, and how can budget execution
  system design assist in minimizing these
  pitfalls? Compare and contrast budget and
  administrative controls.

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• AJS 522 Week 3 Reforms and Shortcomings
  Presentation
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• Resources Use the City of Kelsey of the Virtual
  Organization to evaluate how reform movements and
  financial shortcomings affect the citys
  operating budget. Create a PowerPoint
  presentation with speaker notes that provides a
  brief description of these changes and their
  effect on budgeting. Include the following in the
  presentation.
• Identify two major budgetary reform movements
  (e.g. zero-based budgeting versus
  performance-based budgeting) and its affect on
  the citys budget.

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• AJS 522 Week 4 Chemical Dependency Counseling in
  Prison
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• AJS 522 Week 4 Chemical Dependency Counseling in
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• AJS 522 Week 4 DQ 1
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• What are the different components of a budget
  control system? Explain their importance.
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• What are the various applications and methods of
  cost control? How does cost control affect the
  overall budget cycle? Explain.

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• AJS 522 Week 4 DQ 2
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• What is meant by the term cost when determining
  what costs should be assigned to a capital asset?
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• What approach should be used to measure capital
  asset impairment loss that results from physical
  damage to the capital asset?

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• AJS 522 Week 4 The City of San Diego Public
  Finance Proposal
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• Continue preparing for the Learning Team
  assignment, Final Project Public Finance
  Proposal and Presentation, due in Week Six.
  Submit Final Project Summary Draft

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• AJS 522 Week 5 DQ 1
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• What is financial contingency planning? What are
  the key concepts of contingency planning? Explain
  the importance of having a financial contingency
  plan and the negative effects of not having one.
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• How do sources of temporary funding help in
  contingency planning? Explain how other forms of
  assistance, funding, and assets are acquired.

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• AJS 522 Week 5 DQ 2
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• How do public agencies calculate the costs that
  are associated with catastrophic events? Explain.
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• Distinguish between governmental activities and
  business-type activities. Provide examples of
  each.

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• AJS 522 Week 5 Financial Contingency Planning
  Sources of Funding Paper
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• Resources Use project previously selected public
  program used in the Week Four assignment,
  Influences within Public Programs. Write a
  1,750-word to 2,400-word paper in which you
  evaluate these possible sources of revenue,
  temporary assistance, and funding assets as part
  of Financial Contingency Planning. Be sure to
  address the following sources in your paper
• Public-private partners
• Non-profits

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• AJS 522 Week 6 DQ 1
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• Compare and contrast revenue bonds, general
  bonds, general obligation bonds, short-term
  borrowing, and creative financing.
• What criteria can you use to judge the correct
  level of state or local debt? Justify the
  criteria set

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• AJS 522 Week 6 DQ 2
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• What type of knowledge and skill do analysts need
  for exposure identification and risk evaluation?
  What types of continuous direction and careful
  attention connote excellent risk management?
• Compare the manner in which budgetary accounting
  is accomplished in a federal agency with that of
  a municipality.

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• AJS 522 Week 6 The City of San Diego Public
  Finance Proposal Paper and Presentation
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• AJS 522 Week 6 The City of San Diego Public
  Finance Proposal

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