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CDFM Module 1
Question | Answer |
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Federal Laws are enacted by? | Congress |
What Article of the Constitution provides the power to raise taxes? | Article 1 |
What occurs when Congress is not in session and the President does not sign a properly presented, enrolled bill within 10 days? | Pocket Veto |
Which branch of the government implements laws? | Executive |
What prevents the Congress and the President from unilaterally making laws and treaties? | Separation of power |
What article/section states that Congress shall have the authority "To make laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution...." | Article 1, Section 8 |
"All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the __________, but the ________ may propose or concur with Amendments as on other bills" | House of Representatives Senate |
The _________ shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises.... | Congress |
A new Congress convenes for ______ following the November general elections; it consists of two sessions, each _____ in duration. | 2 years 1 year |
The _________was created for the purpose of auditing the executive branch. | GAO |
A bill is considered enrolled when? | A measure has been passed in identical form by both the House and Senate. |
This was declared unconstitutional in 1998 by the US Supreme Court? | Line Item Veto Act |
Who helps the President with developing spending policy, manages the executive budget and provides advice and analyses on a broad range of topics? | OMB |
__________ is the process of estimating the budgetary effects of pending legislation and comparing them to a baseline such as a budget resolution or to any limits that may be set in law. | Scorekeeping |
The Defense-related House and Senate Authorization Committees are? | Armed Services (House & Senate) Intelligence (House & Senate) Energy (House & Senate) Environment & Public works (Senate) |
_________ are normally transmitted to Congress as requests to provide funds in addition to amounts already appropriated for the ongoing fiscal year. | Supplemental Requests |
A continuing resolution... | A temporary appropriation which provides budget authority for specific activities for a specific period of time. Dissolve when a regular appropriations bill is passed. |
___________is distributed to agencies by OMB as part of the apportionment process. | Budget Authority |
The Budget Execution process starts? | When the President signs the appropriations bill. |
__________, required by 31 USC 1512, is part of the Government-wide system for administrative control of appropriations and funds. | Apportionment |
Annually, agencies submit initial apportionment requests to OMB via SF-132 within ______ after the approval of the act providing new budget authority. | 10 days |
_______are legislative actions canceling previously appropriated funds. | Recisions |
Commitments are...... | Administrative reservation of funds |
Obligations are....... | Legal reservation of funds and is the amounts of orders placed, contracts awarded, services received that require payment in current or future periods. |
Outlays are..... | funds that have been moved from the Federal Treasury. |
The authority to enter into obligations that will result in outlays. | Budget Authority |
This the amount by which the Government's budget outlays exceed it's budget receipts for any given period. | Budget Deficit |
What types of activities are excluded from competition under OMB Circular A-76? | Inherently Government Activities |
the number of personnel in, or projected to be in, an organization or account at a specified point in time. | Actual Strength |
Actual strength of an entire service, not necessarily equal to combined unit actual strengths because individuals may be assigned but not joined. | Assigned Strength |
US Citizens or foreign nationals hired directly or indirectly to work for DoD, paid from appropriated or non appropriated funds under permanent or temporary appointment | DoD Civilian Workforce |
The authorized and programmed strength at the end of the fiscal year for active forces, the selected reserve and appropriated-fund civilian employees in the FYDP | Peacetime Strength |
________ is the process of assembling, organizing and using manpower and material resource in preparation for war or other emergency | Mobilization |
Refers to a the Government's in-house organization to perform a commercial activity. It may included a mix of Federal employees and contract support. | MEO |
_____is a statement of the technical, functional, and performance characteristics of the work to be performed | Performance Work Statement (PWS) |
What are the options available to senior officers and employees of the executive branch who are at risk of financial conflict of interest. | Recusal, Waivers, Certificates of Divestiture and Trusts |
______________ and ___________ are components of a governance framework. | Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Internal Controls |
_____________and ____________ are responsible for establishing and achieving goals and objectives, seizing opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency, providing reliable reporting, and maintaining compliance with relevant laws and regulations | Federal Leaders Managers |
The primary purpose of a _________________ is to provide thoughtful analysis of the risks an Agency faces toward achieving its strategic objectives and arising from its activities and operations. | Risk Profile |
What defines internal control as a process affected by an entity's oversight body, management, and other personnel that provides reasonable assurance that the objectives of an entity are achieved. | The Green Book |
_______________are the polices and procedures that apply to all or a large segment of an entity's information systems and help ensure their proper operation. | General Controls |
General Controls include? | Security Management, Access Controls, Configuration Management, Segregation of Duties and Contingency Planning |
What are directly related to individual computerized applications? | Business Process Application Controls |
What are the five components of the GAO framework for Internal Controls | Control Environment, Risk Assessment, Control Activities, Information & Communication, Monitoring |
A _____________ exists when the design, implementation, or operation of a control does not allow management or personnel, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to achieve control objectives and address risks | Control Deficiency |
A ____________ is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control that is less severe than a material weakness yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with governance | Significant Deficiency |
A ____________ is a significant deficiency that the Agency Head determines to be significant enough to report outside of the Agency. | Material Weakness |
Each corrected material weakness will include, as the last milestone, a validation step that does what? | Evaluates and certifies the effectiveness of the corrective actions |
A specific aim, goal, condition, or level of control established by a manager for an assessable unit that provides reasonable assurance that the resources allocated to that activity are safeguarded or protected against fraud, waste and abuse. | Control Objective |
A judgement by a DoD Component head based upon all available information that DoD Component's system of internal controls are operating as intended | Reasonable Assurance |
The probable or potentially adverse effects from inadequate internal controls that may result in the loss of Government resources or cause and agency to fail to accomplish significant mission objectives | Risk |
A prioritized inventory of the most significant risks identified and assessed through the risk assessment process. | Risk Profile |
Procedures to determine through observation, examination, verification, sampling or other procedures whether internal control systems are working as intended | Testing |