Find an example of an actual budget cycle document for a unit of government or a nonprofit organization that outlines the process of budget preparation, approval, execution, and auditing / evaluation, and note any interesting characteristics of the process. Is the full process longer or shorter than you expected? Are the roles of individuals or groups in line with your expectations? Please provide a link for your source documents so we can review them along side your commentary.

Note: It's generally easy to find budget documents in PDF format by searching for only PDFs. You can find it this by adding "filetype:pdf" before any Google search.

So, you could search for:

filetype:pdf City of New York budget cycle

or

filetype:pdf City of New York budget process