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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate The use of the executive budget as a device for management planning and control is the focus of this course on public financial management. Key executives develop their skills in understanding different budgetary systems, the elements of budget review and execution, and various strategies and tactics employed by participants in the budgetary process. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: admission to Executive MPA program.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate The broad set of research activities essential for designing, implementing, and appraising the usefulness of government programs. Students assess the effectiveness and efficiency of innovative initiatives, as well as programs already in place, and gain skills critical in implementing the Government Performance and Results Act. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite: admission to Executive MPA program.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course deals with the legal basis of government authority and the ways in which legal processes authorize yet limit executive action. Using statute and case law, key executives study the delegation of legislative power, rule-making, administrative appeals, and judicial review. Attention is focused on the legal issues in which key executives are most likely to become involved. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: admission to Executive MPA program.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Key executives examine the relationship of the legislative process, congressional oversight, and EOP/OMB review and approval to the administration of government policy. They study response to pressure groups, clientele groups, and the general public. Executives also address their relationship to political executives, the political basis of government organization, and the difficulties of interagency coordination. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: admission to Executive MPA program.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Participation in this program sequence is designed to improve the practical skills that top-level executives use on their jobs. Among the modules available to participants are computer literacy for executives, executive speaking, effective writing, and executive health and fitness. Usually offered every fall and summer. Prerequisite: admission to Executive MPA program.
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2.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course focuses on the integration of the public executive role with the work of the organization from the macro, or institutional, perspective. As the capstone course, it focuses on the perspectives of executive management effectiveness that emerge from the four Key Executive Program study tracks. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: admission to Executive MPA program.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Microeconomic theory as a framework for understanding the problems of public managers. Resource scarcity, consumer behavior, production, cost, economics of efficient management, operation of product markets under competition and monopoly, labor markets, market failure, and public goods. Usually offered every term.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate May be repeated for credit with different topic (taxation or expenditure analysis). The practice of public finance and expenditure analysis. Taxation examines revenue instruments and their administration, as well as general principles of public finance. Expenditure analysis focuses on public sector expenditures and the demand for government services in areas such as education, transportation, infrastructure, public safety, health, and social support. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite: PUAD-630 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate Analysis of budget proposals, cost estimation, performance budgeting, cost-benefit analysis, cut-back management, reducing the cost of government, pricing public services, and basic government accounting. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate An introduction to the fundamentals of financial aspects of public management. Includes public sector budgeting and budgetary processes, budget execution and control, financial administration, financial statements and accounting, reporting and auditing systems, user fees, pricing public services, and debt. Usually offered every term.
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