S460 - Finance/Administration Section Chief

Reviewed: 2001     Hours: 24

Course Description:

This course is designed to meet a portion of the training needs in the finance section organization. Topics include: pre-dispatch and response, organization and operation of the finance function, and demobilization.

Objectives:

• Define the roles and responsibilities of the finance/administration section chief type 2 (FSC2) in the over all management of the finance/administration section.
• Describe the relationship of the FSC2 with incident personnel, incident agency personnel, and other contacts.
• Describe the role of the FSC2 in development/review/update of incident related documents (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (WFSA), demobilization plan, incident action plan (IAP), and cost share agreements)
• Describe the role of the FSC2 in development of the incident finance package.

Target Group:

Personnel desiring to be qualified as a finance/administration section chief type 2 (FSC2).

Minimum Instructor Qualifications:

Lead and unit instructors must be qualified finance/administration section chief type 2s (FSC2).

Also see Instructor Certification at the beginning of the Field Manager's Course Guide.

Prerequisites:

Qualified as a time unit leader (TIME)

AND

Qualified as a procurement unit leader (PROC) or cost unit leader (COST)

* NFES 2042, ICS Incident Planning at Work referred to in this course has been deleted from the Publications Management System and replaced with the DVD "Planning Process for All Risk Incidents", NFES 2952. Please use NFES 2952 as a replacement for NFES 2042.

Offer Level:
Regional, state, or area

This Course Description is verbatim from the NWCG Field Manager's Course Guide (156 page PDF: Adobe Acrobat Reader required) and accurate as of 12-17-2009.

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