Distinguished Budget Presentation Award. You are a governmental accountant for a large municipality, and you have recently been assigned to the Budget office and charged with building a better budget document—one that will be of the highest quality so that citizens and others with an interest in the government’s finances will be fully informed.
Required
a. Find out which other local governments in your state have received the GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award
b. What components of the budget must exist for the GFOA to award the “Distinguished Budget Presentation Award”?
c. Provide some examples from an award-winning budget in your state that you can model in preparing the budget for your own municipality. Locate examples of budgets that excel in each of these categories: (1) as a policy document, (2) as a financial plan, (3) as an operations guide, and (4) as a communications device.