Course detail
Municipal Finances
FP-KvfPAcad. year: 2014/2015
The course focuses on the following topics: Public choice as a starting point of understanding of public finance, basic categories of public finance, public revenues and public expenditures, fundamentals of taxation theory including excessive tax burden, fiscal federalism, budgetary system in the Czech Republic, budgetary deficit and public debt. Fundamentals of financing in selected areas within the public sector. Ethics of public finance.
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Number of ECTS credits
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
1.Active participation in seminars (one absence during the semester is tolerated, the second and all other absence must be excused. 2.Team work on common tasks, presentation (max.10 points). 3.Successful completion of a credit test (min. 50%).
Form of examination:
Written only - multiple-choice test. Time for elaboration: 40 minutes. Maximum number of points is 70, min. 35 (= 50%).
Grading rules – see the BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations (ECTS Classification).
Course curriculum
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
LAJTKEPOVÁ, E. - ŽIŽLAVSKÝ, O. (2011): Veřejné finance: pracovní listy. 2. přeprac. vyd. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM. (CS)
LAJTKEPOVÁ, E. (2013): Veřejné finance v České republice : teorie a praxe. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM. (CS)
Zákon č. 218/2000 Sb., o rozpočtových pravidlech, v platném znění. Zákon č. 250/2000 Sb., o rozpočtových pravidlech územních rozpočtů, v platném znění. Zákon č. 243/2000 Sb., o rozpočtovém určení daní, v platném znění. Zákon č. 128/2000 Sb., o obcích, v platném znění. Vyhláška MF 323/2000 Sb., o rozpočtové skladbě, v platném znění. (CS)
Recommended reading
PEKOVÁ, J. (2011): Finance územní samosprávy: teorie a praxe v ČR. 1. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer. (CS)
PROVAZNÍKOVÁ, R. (2015): Financování měst, obcí a regionů: teorie a praxe. 3. aktual. a roz. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
•Introduction (basic term : public goods, public sector, public finance, public budget)
•Theory of public choice
•Public revenues
•Public expenditures
•Theory of taxes
•Fiscal federalism
•System of public finance in the Czech Republic
•State budget
•Budgetary deficit
•Public debt
•Social security
•Ethics of public finance
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
•Introduction, political and voting system.
•Financing of political parties.
•Financing of education activities.
•Local public finance, local budgets.
•Social insurance.
•Credit test.