During an animal health emergency, which function is responsible for monitoring costs of the response?

• A. Logistics
• B. Finance/Administration
• C. Planning
• D. Operations

Answer: (B)

In emergency response management, tracking how funds are spent and keeping fiscal control is handled by the Finance/Administration function. This area oversees financial planning, procurement, contracts, cost analyses, and accounting for the response. That makes it the best fit for monitoring costs, ensuring expenditures stay within approved budgets and funding, and handling invoices and reimbursements. Other functions focus on different aspects of the response—logistics moves and provisions, planning develops the incident action plan and resource needs, and operations runs the field response—so cost monitoring naturally falls under Finance/Administration.