S142ISG Study Guide
S142ISG Study Guide
S142ISG Study Guide
Complete this study guide as you conduct your readings and review class slides to help you to
organize your thoughts and to help to codify the material into your memory a little better.
3. To you, what are the top three (3) most important resource management responsibilities of the
BDE/BN S8/RM?
Review accountability reports
manage resources effectively
DeObligations
4. Describe an organization spend plan. Generally, what is the largest driver in development?
Operational and unit readiness reasons (training)
5. What is the role of the BN/BDE XO in unit budget management?
Manages execution of budget
ensures proper staff are at the meetings
Focuses on resourcing for subordinate units
6. What are the two major enterprise systems used for budget management? Describe each.
General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS)
Global Combat Support System Army (GCSS-A)
7. What is the control measure within GCSS-A that unit requires two-person validation for both
requirement and fiscal availability for certain requisitions? Why is this important to you?
ZPark
Fiscal Stewardship
2. What is a deobligation?
Act of moving unused funds back into the general account when the expense is less than the
obligation
3. What is the Army CAER Program’s purpose?
Enterprise effort to increase leadership involvement in fiscal resource stewardship to maximize the
commanders purchasing power
4. What is the main meeting during which the commander considers all aspects of internal resource
management?
Program Budget and Advisory Committee (PBAC)
5. Where are places that you can inject your requirements into the unit’s budget cycle to help your
section, unit, etc., receive proper resourcing?
not on exam
6. What are the three big cost drivers for unit-level spending in your branch or functional area?
Supplies
Travel/ Transportation
Contracts
7. Of the keys to unit-level stewardship on page 23, which do you think are most important to your type
of unit?
not on exam
a. AFMC - conduct theater opening and setting operations, and the continuation of setting the
theater (operational arm to USAFMCOM)
e. C-FICO- Its primary mission is to provide tactical finance operations as directed during
operations