“Performance-based budgeting,” buzzwords for states making spending decisions based on specific benchmarks, gained traction in the 1990s, then fell out of favor during the budget-cutting era of the ...

Performance budgeting has been a mantra of government reformers at least since the Hoover Commission in 1949. But implementation has been sporadic. Why is something that seems sensible so hard to do?

A new guide by an independent management consultant walks agencies through concrete examples of how they can do a better job of connecting their budgets to both daily activities and broader ...

It’s a new year, which is an ideal time to evaluate your business plan and ensure your budget is appropriately aligned with it, if you haven’t done so already. A budget is one of the key drivers of ...

PESHAWAR, March 5: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan has underlined the need for replacing strict financial rules for making budgetary allocations for various sectors under a performance-based ...

Local government budgeting decisions will have an impact on multiple entities and individuals. Local citizens faithfully pay their taxes to support their local government with the expectation that ...

The global economic crisis of 2008 underlined the urgent need for more transparency and accountability in the way public money was spent and for tighter oversight of public finances. Meeting this need ...

Lewis Carroll once said "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." Global oil and gas companies are becoming more and more complex in their operations and the projects are ...

In the broadest sense, a budget is an allocation of money for some purpose. The word once used to mean “pouch” or “purse”; a budget therefore is “what’s in the pouch.” Budgeting as an activity ranges ...

LOWELL — City Manager Bernie Lynch is transforming the city’s annual budget document into a performance-based format, one that he says is more user-friendly for the administration, City Council and ...