Public finances
Course: Educational and professional program Local self-government
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service
            Title
        
        
            Public finances
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ОК.9
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            Second
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2022/2023
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            2 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            4
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            Know the theoretical and applied foundations of public policy development and analysis, incl. in the field of local self-government, the basics and technologies for making managerial decisions.
Solve complex problems of local self-government system development, public administration in general, taking into account the requirements of the legislation.
Carry out effective management of innovations, resources, risks, projects, changes, and quality.
Be able to develop national/regional program documents for the development of local self-government.
Be able to communicate effectively, argue your position, use modern information and communication technologies.
Develop reasonable management decisions necessary for the implementation of the right to local self-government.
Plan and carry out scientific and applied research in the field of local self-government.
Develop and implement measures to adapt and implement the best domestic and foreign practices.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            External form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            	
The student has to: 
1. Know: the basic economic laws, institutional structure of public administration, basics of economic and financial analysis, statistics.
2. Be able to use quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis of economic phenomena and processes, analytical and statistical methods of information processing on territorial entities social and economic development, work with national and international databases, summarize and organize information. 
3. Possess the skills of analysis, synthesis, processing and visualization of statistical, sociological and other data, work with the legal framework, design and presentation of data using Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, Power Point, etc.).
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            Topic 1. State budget policy in the context of decentralization. Public finance, their functions. 
Topic 2. Budget system of Ukraine and the principles of its organization. Budget process at the state level. Participants and interaction. Topic 3. Features of the budget process at the local level. Participants and interaction. 
Topic 4. Revenues and expenditures of the state and local budgets. Budget balance. 
Topic 5. Budget equalization system. State support of local budgets. 
Topic 6. Budgeting by program-target method 
Topic 7. Gender-based budgeting 
Topic 8. Openness and transparency of state and local budgets: methods and tools of evaluation.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            1.	Бобиренко В., Бойко А., Борщ Г., Голинська О., Гринчук Н. та ін. Методологія оцінки прозорості місцевих бюджетів // Фонд Східна Європа - 2017. URL: https://pauci.org/upload/files/metodologiya.pdf
2.	Бюджетна система: тенденції розвитку / [В.М. Мазярчук та ін.]; під ред. В. М. Мазярчука.  Київ: «ФОП Лопатіна О.О.», 2019. 384 с. URL: https://feao.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-07-08-budget_book.pdf 
3.	Васильєва Н. В., Гринчук Н. М., Дерун Т. М., Куйбіда В. С., Ткачук А. Ф. Місцевий бюджет і фінансове забезпечення об’єднаної територіальної громади: навч.посіб.  К.: 2017. 119 с.
4.	Застосування  ґендерно орієнтованого підходу в бюджетному процесі : навч. посіб. / М. Колодій, О. Кисельова, Н. Рябушенко, О. Цюпа.  Київ : Віваріо, 2020. 132 с. 
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            
Lectures, practical classes, tests, questioning, independent tasks, analytical tasks, presentations, exam
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level assessment of the learned material, including theoretical training assessment – which is 25% of the total assessment for the semester and practical training assessment – which is 75% of the overall assessment for the semester.
-	semester assessment:
1.	Oral questioning, discussion
2.	Module test
3.	Individual analytical task
4.	Independent work
- final assessment: the form of final assessment is an exam. The form of the exam is a written work with tasks of different levels of complexity.
-graduation evaluation: the final grade is defined as the sum of grades (points) for all successfully assessed learning outcomes during the semester (grades below the minimum threshold are not added to the final grade) and the grade obtained during the exam. The maximum number of points a student can receive is 100 points.
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Nataliia 
                    Mykhailivna 
                    Grynchuk
                
                
                    Department of Regional Policy  
Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service
            Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Department of Regional Policy 
                    
                    
                        Educational and Scientific Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service