Budgeting in Public Organizations
PPA 4680 Budgeting in Public Organizations
Written Assignment #1: Feedback Report
Visit the website of California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) (available at http://www.csub.edu). Explore the website and complete a feedback report. The feedback report will count 10% of the final grade.
The report is approximately two pages long (excluding the title page and references). It should be typed, double-spaced, have one-inch margin on all sides, and use Times New Roman Font 12. Save the report in MS Word and submit it to Blackboard by the due time listed above. Do not submit PDF files or iWorks documents without converting them to MS Word.
The report should include the following:
Cover Page: include at least the title of the report and your name.
Body of the report (two pages):
start with a brief introduction of CSUB (including its history, mission statement, and a primary strength and weakness of its mission statement) (half a page);
explain how CSUB is funded using numbers from its budgets (half a page);
explain how CSUB spends its money using numbers from its budgets (half a page);
identify a major budgetary problem faced by CSUB and explain how to fix it (half a page).
References: include a list of sources of information using APA