Reading a budget memo

20Jan 2022 by

This assignment involves learning to read and use the information found in public budgets. As part of this assignment, you will be looking at budgets for an agency in a local, state or federal government. 

You must download from the Internet all the budgeting information on that agency. For the budget that you have selected, this assignment involves reading the budget documents and pulling out specific information.

Choose one agency or division budget and answer the following questions:

What is the mission of this agency or division?
What are the major programs carried out by this agency or division?
What is the percentage change in total requested expenditures over last year?
What object of expenditure is the most important?
As a budget analyst reviewing this agency for the first time, please answer the following questions:
What information does this budget give you on the productivity and performance of this agency or division?
What additional information would you like to see?

Summarize your answers in a memo, which should be at least two pages long, double-spaced. As an appendix to the memo, please include web addresses for the information that you present and specific page numbers, and include attachments as you feel appropriate.