Public Finance I
1
2024-2025
01015293
LAW
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
The course blends lectures and discussion classes.
Learning Outcomes
To provide the students with the concepts, theoretical models and tools of analysis they need to understand State financial activity.
To provide the students with the legal and economic framework of the State’s financial conduct by laying special stress on the key legislative pieces of Portugal and the European Union.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Part I: Introduction
1. The public finance
2. The political economy
3. The public law
4. The public accounting
Part II: Public Accounting
5. 1. Notion and functions of the national budget (NB)
5.2. The «classical rules» of budget organization
5.3. Budgetary equilibrium
5.4. Preparation, voting and budget outturn
5.5. The General State Account (GSA)
5.6. Administrative, political and judicial assessing of the NB and the GSA
Part III - Public expenditure
6.1. The increase of public expenditure
6.2. Types of public expenditure
6.3. The Portuguese reality
Part IV – Non effective public revenue
7.1. Use of credit
7.2. Types of loans
7.3. The issue of loans
7.4. Types of public debt
7.5. Operations on the public debt
7.6. The weight of public debt
7.7. The Portuguese reality
Head Lecturer(s)
João José Nogueira Almeida
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
– Estudos de Direito Tributário, A. ALMEIDA, Almedina, 2.ª ed., 1999, ISBN 9789724011035
– Finanças Públicas e Direito Financeiro, A. L. de SOUSA FRANCO, Almedina, 4.ª ed. - 14.ª reimpressão, 2015, ISBN 9789724031194
– Lições de Finanças Públicas, J. J. TEIXEIRA RIBEIRO, Coimbra Editora, 5.ª reimpressão, 2013, ISBN 972-32-0673-0
– Relatório com o programa, os conteúdos e os métodos de ensino teórico e prático da disciplina de Economia e Finanças Públicas…, A. ALMEIDA, Coimbra, ed. do autor, policopiado, 1991, Cota: Biblioteca da FDUC: J-55-7 - 75 761
– Relatório com o programa, os conteúdos e os métodos de ensino teórico e prático das matérias de uma disciplina de Economia Pública…, A. ALMEIDA, Coimbra, ed. do autor, policopiado, 1998, Cota: Biblioteca da FDUC: E-16-10 - 93 730
– Sobre o Estado e o Poder, a Economia e a Política, A. ALMEIDA, Almedina, reimpressão, 2013, ISBN 9789724018737
– Teoria Pura da Imposição, A. ALMEIDA, Almedina, reimpressão, 2006, ISBN 9789724014036