Which of the following is least appropriate for the public budgeting process?

	1.	An ad hoc budgeting nonprofit organization may budget formally for a major planned event or program.
	2.	Standing policies are assumed to be completed within a fiscal year. The primary preparation activities for standing policies are forecasting revenue and expenditure amounts.
	3.	A formally budgeting government may have to budget on an ad hoc basis for an unexpected major event, such as a natural disaster.
	4.	Some standing policy decisions are changeable, with lesser or greater difficulty, even if they are not changed regularly.

1. Which of the following is least appropriate for budget implementation?

   	1.	An executive or an administrative official in a central office or agency prepares and distributes communiqus to persons in the top positions in various organizational units.
   	2.	Communiqus indicate what expenditure authority has been granted to those organizational units in what categories.
   	3.	In some cases, a central organization oversees a process of apportionment where restrictions are placed on how much expenditure authority is available in what categories for what time periods.
   	4.	Allotment refers to communicating expenditure authority upward in a hierarchy.