Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management

specjalizacyjne

The aim of the course is to present basic, innovative solutions in the field of financial law in scope of the public revenues and expenditures

Profile of studies: general academic.

Form of study: full-time.

Course type: optional.

Field and discipline of science: social sciences and legal sciences.

Year of study/sem.: IV year / 1 sem.

Preliminary requirements: no.

Classes hours: 30 (lecture).

Methods of teaching: lecture, consultations.

Number of ECTS points: 6

Balance of student workload:

1) the participation in lectures - 30 hours,

2) the preparation for courses, including:

a) the preparation of terminology exercises and learning of the basic terminology - 25 hours,

b) the reading and the acquisition of the literature being discussed during the lecture - 25 hours,

3) the preparation for the exam - 25 hours,

4) the participation in the consultations - 45 hours.

Total - 150 hours.

Quantitative indicators - student workload related to classes:

- the number of hours requiring direct participation of the teacher - 75 hours, equivalent to 3 ETCS,

- the number of hours not requiring the direct participation of the teacher: 75 hours being equivalent to 3 ETCS

1 H. Sierocka, Legal English, Białystok 2011 (chapter 15).

2 D.R. Mullins, J.L. Mikesell, Innovations in Budgeting and Financial Management, in: Robert F. Durant (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of

American Bureaucracy, Oxford 2011, 28 pp.

3 R. Allen, R. Hemming, B.H. Potter (eds.), The International Handbook of Public Financial Management, Palgrave: London, 2013

(selected chapters: 2, 11, 12, 14, 20, 21, 27, 38)

KNOWLEDGE:

The graduate:

- has in-depth knowledge of the principles and institutions in the field of the financial law - K_W03;

- knows and understands the terminology specific to the financial law - K_W08;

SKILLS:

The graduate:

- is able to correctly interpret and explain the meaning of specific legal norms and the mutual relations between these norms within the

financial law - K_U01;

- has extended skills to solve practical problems in the field of the financial law - K_U05;

As the legal regulations of the University of Białystok provide Student has the obligation to take part in classes, however, one absence is

allowed. At the beginning of each class (except the first and last ones) students write a short pre-test (four so-called passes) checking the

assimilation of the terminology of subsequent chapters of the textbook, which are the subject of discussion in the given class. The test

serves as a motivation to become familiar with the issues discussed and to learn the vocabulary. During the last class, there is a final test

(the exam) on the content of the discussed issues. The final grade consists of half the results of pre-tests and half of the final test. Because

one absence is allowed, the results of six (the best ones) pre-tests are taken into account for the final grade. If a student misses more than

one class, he loses a chance for a better grade, as the pre-tests can be written only in classes.