Cost Reduction Through Better Management in the Federal Government
Author: United States. Bureau of the Budget
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Bureau of the Budget
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780215043818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The National Audit Office report on this topic published as HC 1788, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780102975376)
Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2012-02-02
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780102975376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report by the National Audit Office on progress by central government departments in reducing costs concludes that departments took effective action in 2010-11, cutting spending in real terms by 2.3 per cent or £7.9 billion, compared with 2009-10. The analysis of departments' accounts supports the Efficiency and Reform Group's estimate that Government spending moratoria and efficiency initiatives, including cuts to back-office and avoidable costs, contributed around half of the figure, some £3.75 billion. However, the report warns that departments are less well-placed to make the long-term changes needed to achieve the further 19 per cent over the four years to 2014-15, as required by the spending review. This is partly because of gaps in their understanding of costs and risks, making it more difficult to identify how to deliver activities and services at a permanently lower cost. Fundamental changes will be needed to achieve sustainable reductions on the scale required. It is unclear how far spending reductions represent year-on-year changes in efficiency, or whether front-line services are affected; and the departments' forward plans examined by the NAO are not based on a strategic view. Departments' financial data on basic spending patterns is sufficient to manage budgets in-year, but information about the consequences of changes in spending is less good. Longer term reform is a Cabinet Office priority and departments will need to look beyond short-term cost cutting measures and make major operational change. Cost reduction plans also need to build in contingency measures to cover unexpected risks.
Author: États-Unis. Budget (Bureau)
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mr.Jack Diamond
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1999-07-01
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781557757876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traditionally, economics training in public finances has focused more on tax than public expenditure issues, and within expenditure, more on policy considerations than the more mundane matters of public expenditure management. For many years, the IMF's Public Expenditure Management Division has answered specific questions raised by fiscal economists on such missions. Based on this experience, these guidelines arose from the need to provide a general overview of the principles and practices observed in three key aspects of public expenditure management: budget preparation, budget execution, and cash planning. For each aspect of public expenditure management, the guidelines identify separately the differing practices in four groups of countries - the francophone systems, the Commonwealth systems, Latin America, and those in the transition economies. Edited by Barry H. Potter and Jack Diamond, this publication is intended for a general fiscal, or a general budget, advisor interested in the macroeconomic dimension of public expenditure management.
Author: Michigan. Department of Management and Budget
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Hood
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199687021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework. This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.
Author: United States. Bureau of the Budget
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 72
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