FM 1-06: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS

Official US Army Field Manual in Acrobat PDF file format.Financial management support is both tailorable and scalable in its ability to rapidly task-organize an independent force for a specific mission. It is sufficiently modular to conduct independent non-contiguous operations, and is able to aggregate into a campaign quality force. FM operations are directly related to the Joint Campaign phases and are directly linked to the strategic, operational, and tactical levels (figure I-1). Each phase contains multiple tasks that are distributed among resource management and finance activities.Chapter 2 provides the details to each task and provides the linkage to the phase and level. This task linkage provides critical synchronization between RM, finance, and contracting operations. The goal of each task is to support the commander’s intent by the most efficient means and leaving the smallest possible footprint on the battlefield. Each task has maximum reach back capabilities and minimizes m