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Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: What is the term for the money spent for goods and services?
	A: Budget
	B: Revenue
	C: Expendature
	D: Cost

2: A fiscal year runs from when to when.
	A: July 1 to June 30
	B: April 1 to April 1
	C: March 21 to September 16
	D: None of the above

3: This is the largest grant available to fire fighters.
	A: Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program
	B: The Firefighting Grant
	C: The NFPA Fund
	D: The New FireFighters' Fund

4: The cost of the fire fighters pension would likely come from which budget category?
	A: Personnel
	B: Operating
	C: Capital
	D: None of the above.

5: In which category of the budget would the purchase of a new engine assigned?
	A: Personnel
	B: Operating
	C: Capital
	D: None of the above.

6: What types of projects are bonds used to fund?
	A: Personnel
	B: Operating
	C: Capital
	D: None of the above.

7: How might a fire department attempt to meet a serious reduction in revenues?
	A: Privatize or contact out
	B: Regionalize or Consolodate services
	C: Reduce the career workforce
	D: All of the above.

8: When making an expendature with petty cash, what account does it come from?
	A: The petty cash account
	B: The account the expendature applies to
	C: The operations account.
	D: The capital account.

9: Which process must the fire officer understand in order to make purchases?
	A: Banking
	B: Bidding
	C: Organization
	D: Rules

10: A department can normally purchase directly from which level of government contracts without having to repeat a bidding process?
	A: Federal government
	B: State government
	C: Local government
	D: City government

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