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Business - Financial Management

The DoD Acquisition Business Functional Area is comprised of two distinct career tracks: Business Financial Management (BUS-FM) and Business Cost Estimating (BUS-CE). Financial Management is the art of forecasting, analyzing, interpreting, monitoring, advising, and reporting financial data in a meaningful way to support informed financial decisions.

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