...Russian Budget System: A Move to More Devolved Budget Management? Jack Diamond © 2005 International Monetary Fund WP/05/104 IMF Working Paper Fiscal Affairs Department Reforming the Russian Budget System: A Move to More Devolved Budget Management? Prepared by Jack Diamond1 May 2005 Abstract This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. The Russian federal government has recently initiated a fundamental reform of its budget system, encompassing important policy, procedural, and institutional changes. This paper reviews this reform agenda with reference to the experience of industrial countries that over the past two to three decades have followed a similar reform path toward a more devolved budget management system. From this perspective, the importance of the strength of existing public expenditure management systems to accommodate increased devolution and the scope for employing decentralized agencies is explored. An assessment of the present Russian reform plans in light of this review reveals a number of concerns. First, the speed of the reforms contemplated appears overly ambitious when judged by the experience of other countries. Second, the preparedness of budget institutions...
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...Rhonda Moore According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a budget can be defined as “the amount of money that is available for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose”. Many people think of budgeting as something to do when they're short on cash. College students might turn to a budget to figure out how to make due with their high expenses and limited incomes. Two purposes for budgets are planning and control. Planning is a way of constructing the budget to meet the pre determined goal and, it also controls the feedback system to ensure proper execution of the plan. The advantages of budgeting are communication of management plan in the organization, provides guidelines for managers to think and plan for future, allocate resources, uncover bottle necks, co-ordinate activities for entire organization and provide benchmark for evaluation of future performance. Typically budgets can be prepared annually, and they can represent a company’s plan in specific, quantitative terms. A budget can help companies plan for the future. So companies can also take advantage of a budget by shaping the well-organized line for making money and increasing assets. “A budget may span any period of time. It may be short-term (one year or less, which is usually the case), intermediate (two to three years), or long-term (three years or more). Short-term budgets provide greater detail and specifics. Intermediate budgets examine the projects the company currently is undertaking and...
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... There was lack of accountability, while decision making was highly centralized. To address these problems, the PPBS was improved and introduced as the Modified Budgeting System (MBS) in 1990. The system expounded the concept of “let managers manage” and held them accountable for their performance. However, even under this system, the emphasis was still on output, with each ministry and agency focusing on delivering its programmes and projects. This gave rise to duplication of efforts and resources across ministries. It soon became apparent that there were weak linkages between policy formulation, budgeting process as well as project implementation and evaluation. There was also little or no integration between operating and development budget. More importantly, the system could not meet...
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...billion proposed budget for the forthcoming fiscal, 2012-13, is sized at 18.1 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) that is projected to do grow at 7.2 per cent during the year. There are challenges and risks, both domestic and external, that do provide some strong reasons for being not much optimistic at this stage about achieving this growth performance. That does not mean that the growth target itself is overambitious. The actual performance of the Bangladesh economy has otherwise been impressive over the past several years in a row, given the comparative picture of other low-income developing countries and the odds and difficulties, both exogenous and endogenous. But even this performance has been considered below the potential of Bangladesh. This is what the economists, analysts, development practitioners and all others, within and outside, have been stating about Bangladesh over the years. The growth rate, however, is not the sole indicator of 'socio-economic development' in its broad sense. But it unquestionably remains to be one of the important criteria for assessing the overall performance of an economy. The quality of growth -- its nature and dimension of inclusiveness, impact on social development indices concerning the state of education, health, nutrition and, thus, human resource development, income-distribution and employment-generation effects, poverty alleviation efforts etc. -- is also a pertinent point for consideration. The budget through its...
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...“October 27, 2011 Honorable Members of the Washington State Legislature: Despite three years of cutting budgets, reducing and eliminating services, and transforming government, Washington faces yet another major challenge. The September revenue forecast has forced another major overhaul of the state operating budget, this time to accommodate a drop of nearly $1.4 billion. Given signs that the November forecast is likely to bring additional bad news, I have prepared a list of alternatives that represent total expenditure reductions of more than $2 billion for the 2011–13 biennium. We will need at least that much to balance the budget and maintain a reserve. After earlier rounds of tough budget cutting, it is clear to me that across-the-board reductions — the only tool available under law to a governor — are untenable. Nonetheless, given the magnitude of the shortfall, it is necessary that we look to each state agency, program, board and commission for additional savings. While my staff and I are preparing the formal supplemental operating budget for submission next month, today I offer a starting point to the conversation we must engage in to resolve our budget problem. Attached is a summary of alternatives I am considering to reach savings of approximately $2 billion. To compile this list, I worked with agency directors to identify expenditure reductions in addition to the 5 percent and 10 percent reduction options submitted last month to the Office of Financial...
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...Introduction and Background of Budget The Capital Budget of the public sector or sometimes also known as Public Budget concerns how the government plans its revenues and expenditures at the Federal level, State level, and Local government level, to carter for the needs of its development programs and projects. In a democratic society, the division of resources between the public and private sectors is roughly determined by the desires of the electorate. But because it’s such a complex and time-consuming task to acquire adequate political information, the electorate is chronically ignorant. Since the Revolutionary War, democratic system of governance has forever been looking for better ways to inform the public and to design more sophisticated techniques for deciding how best to allocate scarce public resources. Despite the good sense it makes to “budget to a plan”, public expenditures are frequently approved based on who supports what, rather than on a clear understanding of what exactly the expenditures will accomplish. Public Budgeting is not about numbers; it is about making Democratic governance work. During the debates leading to the creation of the American Constitution, taxation and public expenditures were one of the driving forces leading to the creation of our peculiar and complex system of separation of powers and checks and balances. Our various state and local democratic constitutions give the executive branch the power to propose a budget and collect taxes, but...
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...Process of Budget Policy Shiram Sam Economics of Public policy (ECN4010) ANC/EDP 2014 DEFINING THE NATIONAL BUDGET The budget is the most important economic policy tool of the national government. Far from being a mere compilation of income and expenditure, it is the blueprint for a nation's socio economic policies for each fiscal year. The national budget is thus the fundamental indicator of what government proposes to do and what objectives it pursues. It presents the government's financial plans for an upcoming period and is a comprehensive statement of the priorities of the nation. Which sectors of the economy will be expected to pay for said activities; how government will respond to economic disturbances in the short term; and who will be the direct and indirect beneficiaries of public services? The budget is about people and should respond to their needs. It is a way of determining how the Government seeks to fulfill goals for the welfare of people as set out in a country's Constitution/Bill of Rights, in international instruments and standards (e.g. MDGs), and in government policy statements. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BUDGET The National Budget allocates resources, distributes wealth and income, and stabilizes the economy. The economic stabilisation function of the budget should be balanced against the need to ensure that there are adequate resources (including from external sources) to guarantee the delivery and development of essential services especially...
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...has every intention to move forward with the new delivery plans as they have also hired lobbyists to spread the word about the initiative. “Amazon Prime Air”, is said to have the ability to deliver packages in 30 minutes or less, a huge difference from the company’s current fastest shipping time of overnight. Customers will see their packages zipping through the air as they make their way to the doorstep. The vast majority, 85 percent, of Amazon’s shipments consists of items weighing 5 pounds or less, making drone deliveries even more desirable. This issue of the commercial use of drones’ impacts federal, state and local budgets in a variety of ways. As stated in the article the FAA is under pressure to move quickly on making these decisions as companies are eager to put their plans to action. The FAA, a federally run agency, will be required to reform and institute new policies surrounding the commercial use of drones. This requires the utilization of federal dollars to fund additional manpower to work on instituting new regulations and drone testing. The federal government is also impacted in that additional staff will need to be hired and trained to manage the increased airspace traffic. As mentioned in chapter 15 of the textbook, Intergovernmental Relations: Structural and Fiscal Features of the Intergovernmental System, the United States alone includes over 89,000 local...
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...BUDGET FORMATS By presenting selected information in particular ways, budget documents focus attention on certain questions, relationships, and developments. Because budget formats “establish the rules by which the budgeting game is played (the decision rules)” and also “create the standards by which success is measured (rules of evidence),” formats are important to public budgeting. “When we speak of budgeting formats, we are talking about the way in which budgeting information is structured, the kind of information that is required to justify budget requests, and what kind of questions are asked during the budget review process” (Morgan, 2002, p. 71). There are four general types of approaches: line-item, performance, program, and zero-based, plus hybrids. Table 1 compares them and the following discussion describes them in detail. 2 3 Source: 4 Reprinted by permission. Morgan, Douglas, with the assistance of Kent Robinson and support of Drew Barden and Dennis Strachota, 2002. Handbook on Public Budgeting. Portland State University, Hatfield School of Government, State of Oregon edition, Table 7-6, pp. 162–163, http://eli.pdx.edu/erc/morgan/handbook6.doc. Alternative Methods of Budgeting Line-Item Budgeting A line-item budget lists, in vertical columns, each of the city’s revenue sources and each of the types—or classes—of items the city will purchase during the fiscal year. Following is an example of how line-item budgeting would be used in a small town public...
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.................. 2 1.1. The Basic Concepts of Budget and Budgeting ................................................................ 2 1.2. Definition of Budget ........................................................................................................ 3 1.3. Budgeting and Forecasting .............................................................................................. 4 1.4. Budgeting and Management ............................................................................................ 6 1.5. Budgeting and Planning ................................................................................................... 6 1.5.1 Purposes of Planning and Budgeting systems ................................................................. 7 1.5.2 Limitation of Budgeting................................................................................................. 10 1.5.3 Planning Cycles ............................................................................................................. 11 1.6. Budgeting process (Budget cycle) ................................................................................. 14 1.6.1 Designing the budget ..................................................................................................... 15 1.6.2 Steps in Budgeting Process- Participatory approach ..................................................... 15 1.6.3 Characteristics of a Budget ................................................
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...Academia.edu Log InSign Up We're trying Google Ads to subsidize server costs. If you are logged in, you won't see ads. Hover to learn more. pdf An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Public Financial Management Syste… 8 Pages An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Public Financial Management System being used by Government Departments in Zimbabwe. (2000 – 2011) Uploaded by Donnelie Muzividzi Files 1 of 2 Views 3,402 connect to download READ PAPER Academia.edu An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Public Financial Management System being used by Government Departments in Zimbabwe. (2000 – 2011) Download Research Journal of Finance and Accountingwww.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1697 (Paper) ISSN 2222-2847 (Online)Vol.4, No.4, 201320exodus from the public sector and from Zimbabwe impacted negatively on the effectiveness of PFMS andaccountability systems, threatening day to day operations from the reform.Some human resources existed but not adequate in numbers and quality to perform some critical functions andoptimal utilization largely due to lack of working facilities.The shortfall has been found to have two dimensions: the technical dimension and the governance dimension. Onthe technical dimension, the effectiveness of the PFMS has been reduced due to failure to maintain the systemand inability to cope with number of digits due to hyper inflation. On the governance dimension, some existingregulations and procedures were not followed...
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...Research Vol.2. No.3, pp. 69-83, May 2014 Published by European Centre for Research Training and Development UK (www.ea-journals.org) A CRITIQUE ON CASH BASIS OF ACCOUNTING AND BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA Emmanuel Amaps Loveday Ibanichuka (Fca, Ph.D) Department of Accounting,Faculty of Management Science,University of Port-Harcourt, Port-Harcourt Oyadonghan Kereotu James (Aca) (Corresponding Author) Lecturer, Department of Accounting and Finance Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, P.M .B 071, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria ABSTRACT: In public sector accounting, government ministries and parastatals operate a cash basis of accounting which is believed to be simple in operation and understanding by staff that may not simply have a rigorous training in accounting. A great disadvantage is that it does not recognise assets, debtors and liabilities. This principle negligence is capable of introducing negligence into proper record keeping of how much value of infrastructural assets are being developed in the pass fiscal years, their state of activity and possibly resulting to a repetition of projects, poor monitoring of budget implementation and misappropriation of fund. The authors took a frank analysis of the implications as they relate to the consistent problem of poor budget implementation in Nigeria. This study was based on empirical analysis of one hundred and thirty (130) questionnaires distributed to 130 public servants in the civil service of...
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...Introduction Part A Economic Regulation Part B Ratio Analysis Decision making techniques Part C Benefits and Limitations of Budgeting and Planning SDCCC Reflection Appendices Analysis for Ratio Sample Income and Expenditure Balance Sheet Proposed Monthly Review Introduction In 2000 the National Development Plan in Ireland allocated funding to the development of childcare with the specific aim of improving the quality, and increasing childcare provision and places through the introduction of a more coordinated approach. As a result thirty three County Childcare Committees, (CCC) were formed in the Republic of Ireland, each with an agreed set of objectives for the various county/areas. They are currently under the Office for the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (OMCYA) which was set up by the Government in December 2005. On Wednesday, 9th March 2011, the establishment of a new ‘Department of Children’ was announced, together with the appointment of a new minister. This is on the back of a general election in February 2011, where a new coalition government was voted into power. This means that there could be extensive changes as a new program for government is announced and introduced. As this Office will now become a government department in its own right, it reflects the prioritization that childhood development is now taking in modern Ireland. However as the new Department has not been fully established I will use the previous...
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...1a. Evaluate the information and processes required to be able to set a budget, which supports the organisation's business goals. Discuss how you would use them to prepare, formulate and monitor a budget. The objectives of budget preparation are shown in the table below. Objective | Comment | Planning | Compelling managers to plan is probably the most important feature of a budgetary planning and control system. Planning forces management to look ahead, to set out detailed plans for achieving targets for each department and operation and ideally each manager and to anticipate problems. It thus prevents management relying on ad-hoc or uncoordinated planning which may be detrimental to the performance of the organisation. It also helps managers to foresee potential threats or opportunities, so that they make take action now to avoid or minimise the effects or threats and to take full advantage of the opportunities. | Responsibility | Objectives are set for the organisation as a whole, and for individual departments and operations within the organisation. Quantified expressions of these objectives are then drawn up as targets to be achieved within the timescale of the budget plan. Budgetary planning and control systems require that managers of budget centres are made responsible for the achievement of budget targets for the operations under their personal control. | ...
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...Prices: It helps the management in fixing selling prices of products or services by providing detailed cost information. 5. Helps in Inventory Control: It helps in inventory by using various techniques such as ABC analysis, Economic Order Quantity, Stock levels, Perpetual Inventory system and Continuous Stock Taking, Inventory Turnover Ratio etc. 6. Helps in Cost reduction: It helps in the introduction of cost reduction programme and finding out new and improved method to reduce costs. 7. Helps in measurements of Efficiency: It helps in measurements of efficiency of operations through establishment of standards and variance analysis. 8. Helps in preparation of Budgets: It helps in the preparation of various budgets such as Sales Budget, Production Budget, Purchase Budget, Man-Power Budget, Overheads budget. 9. Helps in identifying Unprofitable Activities: It helps in identifying unprofitable activities so that the necessary...
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