APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENSES TREND ANALYSIS

O
VERVIEW
Agency budgets consists of appropriations spent and expenditures for services delivered. The
approved budget becomes an important device to monitor and evaluate spending and service
delivery. Budget and finance officers must constantly monitor the relationship between
appropriations and expenses. Evaluating agencies assists in understanding budgetary impact and
internal infrastructure of efficiency and/or waste.
I
NSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment you will write an 8-10-pages (not including title page, reference page, and
any appendices). More specifically,
you will need to:
1) Compute and create tables and charts to analyze a three-year trend (2015, 2016, 2017) of
selected appropriations and expenses for agencies within the Department of Homeland
Security
2) Using the tables and charts, write an 8–10 paged, double-spaced, research paper that
discusses and analyzes the relationship between appropriations and expenses.
The paper must be in current APA format with 1-inch margins and 12-pt Times New Roman
font. You must also include a title page and reference page. You must include citations to a
sufficient number of appropriate professional, scholarly, or other appropriate sources to fully
support your assertions and conclusions (which will likely require more than the minimum
number of citations); each paper must contain citations to the course texts book, assigned
readings, and a minimum of 5 additional sources not including the course textbooks, assigned
readings, and the Bible.
To successfully complete this assignment, please refer to
Research Paper: Appropriations and
Expenses Trend Analysis Assignment Guide.

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