The Comprehensive Annual financial report (CAFR) of Harford County

Harford County, Maryland Government Entity

Analysis of the CAFR and CCR reports 1. Select a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report ( CAFR ) from a municipality 2. Select a Citizen’s Centric Report ( CCR ) from a municipality (from your chosen entity for the CAFR report, if not available then from a similar - type entity) and present your choice in the conference set up for same in Week #1 for approval by stating the municipality’s name in the conference, including a link to the municipality’s web page, and uploading / attaching the municipality’s most recent CCR report in PDF format . 3. Explore the concepts of the course material relating to CAFRs and CCRs. You must also find and review / read outside literature on these subjects as well and use in the paper . 4. Prepare an executive summary paper on the CAFR and CCR to include the following: a. A brief introduction / review of your chosen CAFR entity. b. For both the CAFR and CCR reports, discuss the focus of each report, what each document is trying to impart on its users, a brief review of the main sections of each (what is NOT expected is a fund - by - fund accounting of figures, performance, balances, etc) , and who is the audience being addressed. c. Discuss your thoughts on “why two reports?”

5. Your deliverable is to be three - five pages in length ( ~ 1,000 to 1, 8 00 words), single - spaced, double spacing between paragraphs, one inch margins and a font size of 10 - 12 points. Use headings related to topics in our class, and include a cover page and works cited section. In - text citations must be included and done per APA standards.