FISCAL LAW 101 FINAL TEST

FISCAL LAW 101 FINAL TEST1. A unit is conducting a month-long Combined Airborne Parachute Exercise with the country of Romania. The Romanian troops are all already airborne qualified, have successfully completed multiple jumps, but have never jumped from a U.S. C-130 before. The Brigade S3 (operations officer) wants to conduct a two-hour block of instruction for the Romanians on C-130 exit safety procedures. Can the unit provide the training? The unit must contact DoS via DSCA to access their funds, since this is Security Assistance training (Big "T" Training). The unit may fund it with Afghanistan Security Forces Funds. The unit may fund it with O&M, because it is for Interoperability, Familiarization, and Safety training (little "t" training). It depends on whether Congress has given DoD an authorization or appropriation to fund this type of Foreign Assistance. 4 points QUE ST ION 2 1. Under an acquisition and cross-servicing agreement (ACSA), a country can "pay" for goods or services this way: Payment in Kind (PIK) (cash). Equal Value Exchange (EVE). Replacem ent in Kind (RIK). All of the above are available. 4 points QUE ST ION 3 1. True or False. In accordance with Army Regulations, construction projects which have a common support purpose but are not mutually dependent are funded as separate projects. True False FISCAL LAW 101 FINAL TEST 4 points QUE ST ION 4 1. Which U.S. Government agency is primarily responsible for funding foreign humanitarian or security assistance provided to our allies? DoD- Department of Defense USDA- U.S. Department of Agriculture DoS- Department of State The U.S. Treasury Department 4 points QUE ST ION 5 1. While supporting operations in Afghanistan, the Task Force Commander comes to you with a plan to re-fit the Task Force headquarters building. The plan includes renovating the inside of the current headquarters (which suffered significant water damage recently when a water pipe burst) at a cost of approximately $300,000, and building an extension between the current cafeteria and headquarters building at a cost of about $600,000. The commander wants to know if he can use his O&M funds to pay for these projects. You correctly tell him that: Based on the facts given, it is clear that the correct source of funding for this project would be “unspecified” MILCON. He can approve the project and execute it as soon as he wishes, but must use “unspecified” MILCON funds to pay for it. We are in a deployment setting so Operations and Maintenance funds are used for all construction projects not exceeding $100 million. In order to answer this question, I would need to talk to the Engineers to determine how they are scoping and classifying this work. If these projects can be done separately, we may be able to fund them separately with O&M as a repair project (the HQ renovation) and a construction project (the extension). However, if the work is so integrated that we can’t separate the construction project from the repair project, we will have to fund them together as a single project, which could potentially push the total funded project cost us over the O&M funding threshold. While unspecified MILCON funding would be the proper funding source, before obligating such funds on this contract, we must first get approval from the Secretary of Defense who would notify Congress. We must then wait 21 days before obligating the money. 4 points QUE ST ION 6 1. Under the Military Construction Codification Act (10 U.S.C. §2801), a “Military Construction Project” is defined as: Any construction, maintenance and repair carried out on a military installation regardless of the source of funding. All military construction work necessary to produce a complete and usable facility or a complete and usable improvement to an existing facility. All specified military construction carried out on a military installation with a funded cost of $1.5 million or greater. Any specified or unspecified construction carried out by the Corps of Engineers using Operations and Maintenance funds. 4 points QUE ST ION 7 1. An accountable officer is not liable for an improper payment: if there was a lack of fault or negligence; if the certification was based upon official records and the accountable officer using reasonable diligence could not have discovered the correct information; or if the obligation was incurred in good faith, no law specifically prohibits the payment, and the government received some benefit. in some parallel universe. In our world, an accountable officer of the U.S. Government is always strictly liable for improper payments.