Business, Cost Estimating and Financial Management (BCEFM) Special Interest Area.If the BCEFM career field had a motto, it would be "Show me the money!" Without finances, defense acquisition programs would quickly stop. Fortunately, there is a new resource for the BCEFM career field--the BCEFM Special Interest Area (SIA Sia (sī`ə) or Siaha (sī`əhə), in the Bible, family returned from the Exile. SIA - Serial Interface Adaptor ) now online at the Acquisition Community Connection (ACC See adaptive cruise control. ) Web site <http://acc.dau.mil/bcefm>. A brief overview of topics covered in the BCEFM SIA follows: * Cost Analysis -- Requirements for acquisition program cost estimates; estimating methodologies; learning curve; links to the Service cost analysis agencies. * Defense Industry Business Management -- financial management from the perspective of the defense contractor; evaluating a company's financial condition; business strategies. * Financial Management -- financial management from the government perspective, which includes topics on budget formulation (building a budget), budget enactment, and budget execution. * Budget Policy -- DoD budgeting policies (full, incremental, annual, etc); link to the DoD Financial Management Regulation; other useful links; budgeting implications of contract types; working capital funds. * PPBE PPBE Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution -- The Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) System; Structure of the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP FYDP Five-Year Defense Program FYDP Five-Year Defense Plan FYDP Fiscal Year Defense Plan FYDP Future Years Defense Program/Plan ); budget exhibits. * Budget Enactment -- Congressional budget enactment process; DoD acquisition program oversight report requirements; links to recent legislation affecting DoD; links to sites covering congressional activity. * Budget Execution -- Apportionment The process by which legislative seats are distributed among units entitled to representation; determination of the number of representatives that a state, county, or other subdivision may send to a legislative body. The U.S. of funds; execution process; fiscal law; reprogramming Reprogramming refers to erasure and remodeling of epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation, during mammalian development[1]. After fertilization some cells of the newly formed embryo migrate to the germinal ridge and will eventually become the germ cells ; obligation and expenditure plans; useful links. * Earned Value Management Earned Value Management (commonly abbreviated and referred to just as EVM) is a project management technique that seeks to measure forward progress in an objective manner. EVM is touted as having a unique ability to combine measurements of technical performance (i.e. -- Theory and application of Earned Value Management. In addition to finding information about various BCEFM topics, the SIA also contains information and links about upcoming conferences and events, and links to online learning materials, policy updates, and related Web sites. If you are not currently a member of the ACC but are interested in joining the BCEFM community, please go to <http://acc.dau.mil/> and click "Join Now" on the right side of the home page. In the "Request Comment" link on the left side of the application screen, indicate your interest in being a part of the new BCEFM community. Also, the community is still looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. expert editors to be a part of the community. If you are interested in contributing, please contact the BCEFM community editor, John Jansen at: john.jansen@dau.mil. |
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