Abstract
All governments face the challenge of scarce resources, requiring
budgetary management processes for identifying the resources required by
and available to government, and then for allocating them and ensuring
their use or deployment represents value for money. Such budgetary and
financial management processes need to routinely inform decision-making
and protect the integrity of the way public resources are used—with some
public accountability to indicate that their uses are properly authorised
and reflect the policies of legitimate government leaders. The processes
ideally should also facilitate assessments of how well the resources have
been used, and of whether and how efficiently expenditures have achieved
the objectives of the policymakers.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Canberra |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Number of pages | 394 |
Edition | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781760461799 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |