1. Please detail, compare and contrast zero-based budgeting, performance-based budgeting and incremental budgeting. Also give an example for each of when that approach is best used (in terms of organizations or situations, for example)

2. Please determine which five terms, concepts or theories are the most important for public budgeting and briefly explain why those five terms, concepts or theories are so important for public budgeting.

3. Detail the relationship that budgets (both revenues and expenditures) have on enacting or changing public policies and the role that politics (internal to organization, local, state and federal) all have on this relationship.

4. Reflect on what you learned about public budgeting in this class and detail how you will use this going forward in your career and how it makes you a more informed citizen in general.