Description
This one-day elective course will provide you with a refresher in skills ranging from the proper interpretation and application of federal appropriations law to the use of appropriated funds. You will review the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Principles of Federal Appropriations Law (Red Book). You will also rediscover the relationship of agency budgets to appropriations, propriety, timing, and the legality of certain types of expenditures. After this refresher course, you will walk away with the basis from which to make legal decisions.
Learning Objectives
- Provide guidance to decision makers on the legality of proposed actions
- Assist in a review of proposed in-house regulations
- Support agency policy in the legal use of annual, multi-year, and no-year appropriations
- Apply Comptroller General decisions to organizational activities
- Assess propriety of administrative decisions
Course ID
APPLAW REF-EL
Length
1 Day
CLPs
8
Modality
In-person
Virtual