Step I: Review

Using freely available online resources, locate and review the CAFR of the governmental entity you are assigned to (Note: I will assign the governmental entities to you in class on October 20) as well as any other demographic information. For any trend analysis, you may need to review CAFR for multiple fiscal years. You may also want to review your assigned books Chapters 9 and 10.

Step II: Prepare

Based on your review from Step I, prepare a PowerPoint presentation that covers the following questions (not necessarily in the order presented below; you can be creative in answering the similar questions into one slide). Your presentation should contain between 12 and 15 slides. Grading for the PPT presentation will be based on professionalism, creativity, and correctness of the information presented.

• Locate and review the demographic information including but not limited to population growth, employment, housing market etc. Then, outline the financial opportunities and challenges faced by the governmental entity?
• Based on your own observation so far in this class, what are some of the major differences between governmental accounting and for-profit accounting?