When dealing with public policy and funding, it is very important to understand budgeting and its various approaches. In this assignment, you research and share information about budgeting approaches.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you:

o Evaluate how different public budget approaches impact the development, implementation, and justification of existing and new programs.

o Identify at least two major budgetary reform approaches, such as zero-based budgeting and performance-based budgeting, and their effects on justification of new or existing programs.

o Provide a brief description of these approaches and their effects on budgeting.

o Explain how these major reform approaches might assist a community as it deals with decreased funding from the state or federal government and lower collections of revenue at the local level.

o Identify the impact of these major reform approaches on the budget office.