MPA563 Week6: Current Budget Reform Budget Preparation and Execution MPA563 Week6: Select a significant, current budget reform issue. Discuss your topic with your instructor prior to beginning the assignment. Be sure to obtain instructor approval for the topic. Write a 1,050- to 1,250-word paper about the need for the budget reform and how it will […]
MPA563 Week5: Financial Reporting
MPA563 Week5: Financial Reporting Management Accountability and the Political Process MPA563 Week5: Select a city, county, or state and locate their latest Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper discussing the usefulness of the financial reports for internal and external viewers. Identify the components and structure of the CAFR. Describe the financial position of […]
MPA563 Week4: Influences within Public Programs
MPA563 Week4: Influences within Public Programs Budgetary Analysis Techniques MPA563 Week4: Select a public program that has recently undergone a significant budgetary change. For example, suppose a state cut funding for a domestic violence program. What possible changes in public policy and the political process could have led to this decision? What may be the result? […]
MPA563 Week3: Politics and the Budget Process
MPA563 Week3: Politics and the Budget Process Political Process and Public Policy in Budgeting MPA563 Week3: Resource: Missouri Case Study in the Week Three Electronic Reserve Readings. Review the Missouri case study. Familiarize yourself with the impact of politics on the budget process. Prepare a 1,050- to 1,250-word paper. Evaluate the relationship between the budget […]
MPA563 Week2: Budget Approaches
MPA563 Week2: Budget Approaches Political Process and Public Policy in Budgeting MPA563 Week2: Evaluate how different budget approaches impact the development, implementation, and justification of existing and new programs. Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with speaker notes that provides a brief description of these approaches and their effects on budgeting. Include the […]
MPA563 Week1: Budget Cycle
MPA563 Week1: Budget Cycle Nature of Public Budgeting MPA563 Week1: You are the Budget Director of a small city that has just elected new City Council members. Prepare a 500 to 700 word memo that describes the budget cycle. Include a description of the budget cycle such as the development, execution, and evaluation of the […]
PSY360 Week 2: Memory Flowchart
PSY360 Week 2: Memory Flowchart Memory PSY360 Week 2: There are many steps in the process of memory, and it is important to understand how each step works in order to improve your own memory. In this assignment, you outline the processes of memory formation and retrieval. Imagine your team has been asked to present […]
PSY360 Week5: A Day in Your Brain
PSY360 Week5: A Day in Your Brain Cognition in Daily Life PSY360 Week5: As people go about their day and encounter different situations and experiences, they use various cognitive processes. People often do not recognize that they are using cognitive skills, and do not understand how their brain functioning contributes to their daily life experience. […]
PSY360 Week4: Problem Solving Case Study
PSY360 Week4: Problem Solving Case Study Reasoning and Problem Solving PSY360 Week4: Reasoning, decision making, and problem solving are cognitive processes that we use every day. There are many strategies involved in these processes. In this assignment, you use these strategies to demonstrate these processes. Create a scenario in which your team utilizes the problem […]
PSY360 Week3: Language Paper
PSY360 Week3: Language Paper Language PSY360 Week3: Language comprehension is a key process in everyday life. In this assignment, you gain a better understanding for how we develop, produce, and comprehend language. Imagine you work in an elementary school setting, and you have been asked to write an article to be featured in the teacher […]