Description
Research the most recent annual budget of your favorite city to visit or a not-for-profit organization of your choice. You may find it at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board or the entity’s website.
What are the three largest projected revenues and the three largest expenditures?
If you can locate comparative information, which line items show the greatest increase over the prior year’s budget?
What does a review of this budget tell you about the entity?
What informational items are included to support the organization’s budget that you feel are most important to the constituents of that jurisdiction or donors of the organization?
What information don’t you see that you believe would be beneficial to disclose?