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Public budgets

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0475/01
Abbreviation VR
Course title Public budgets
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Tománek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Course syllabus of the course:
1. Public finances - the structure of public finances in the Czech Republic, the function of public finances, the flows in the economy between sectors.
2. Public revenues - types of public budget resources, taxes and fees, taxes and its structure, tax justice.
3. Methods of tax construction - pension taxes, consumption taxes, property taxes, aspects of taxation in relation to the public budgets.
4. Fiscal federalism - principles of fiscal federalism, models of fiscal federalism, fiscal federalism in the Czech Republic.
5. Structure of financial operations into public budgets - application from different points of view (e.g. sectoral or consolidation).
6. State budget - state budget revenues, state budget expenditures, budget process, function and focus of selected budget chapters.
7. State budget rules - state budget balance, budget provision, liquidity, pension account.
8. Public funds - functioning of six state funds, funds of government agencies type, management of health insurance companies - resources and expenditures of funds.
9. Management of municipalities - types of municipalities, incomes (tax, non-tax, capital, transfers), expenditures, basic rules of municipal management.
10. Management of regions - voluntary associations of municipalities and regional councils of cohesion regions, economic resources and budgetary rules.
11. Organizations providing public sector services - establishment of organizations by the state and territorial self-governing units, organizational units and contributory organizations.
12. Aspects of the assessment of public budgets in the Czech Republic.
13. Budget of the European Union - budgetary principles, rules of management, budget process, budget structure, budget resources.
14. Actual issues of public budgets - current legislative changes, current developments in public budgets.

E-learning

Literature

ROSEN, Harvey S., Ted GAYER a Abdülkadir CIVAN. Public finance. 10th ed., global ed. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. McGraw-Hill series in economics. 588 s. ISBN 978-0-07-715469-1.

Advised literature

NOLAN, Aoife, Rory O'CONNELL and Colin J. HARVEY (eds.). Human rights and public finance: budgets and the promotion of economic and social rights. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-1-84113-011-8.
CULLIS, John G. and Philip R. JONES. Public finance and public choice: analytical perspectives. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-923478-3.
ULBRICH, Holley H. Public finance in theory and practice. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-58597-2.