You will need to consult volumes for five years, ending with the latest available. The volumes will be on reserve in the Milledgeville Campus Library. A link to the OMB site is on my website, under major government links. You will track the expenditure of your bureau over the five year time period and within major categories. You will keep track of how the obligations for the same program and the same object have changed from year to year.
Shares are very important in being able to see patterns.
You will need to know how the bureau's obligations compared with that of the department as a whole over time and whether the bureau s obligations kept track with inflation. Only one student will be allowed to work on each department. You will need to consult volumes for five years, ending with the latest available. You should note that actual expenditures reported will run two years behind the volume number. That is, actual expenditures for FY 93 are in the FY 95 volume, actual expenditures for FY 94 are in the FY 96 volume, etc.