Much of the literature on citizen participation in the budget process links the council-manager form of government with higher levels of citizen participation, assuming the council-manager form represents professional administration. This is contradictory to the reality that different forms of government have “borrowed” features from each other and many now have mixed forms of government (i.e.,...

This study examines the effect of performance-based budgeting on financial management selected Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) in Nigeria. The focuses three key components budgeting: performance metrics, outcome-based budgeting, contracting. Financial is assessed based budgetary control, internal controls, cash debt management. utilised a survey research design focused MDAs with of...

Free from the comforts of home, many students are experiencing being on their own for the first time. One of the challenges they face is budgeting. This becomes particularly problematic when an expected budget item changes. This study examines how students at a small Midwestern liberal arts college meet the budgeting challenge. Do students plan and budget for discretionary items differently tha...

This presentation addresses the fundamentals of budgeting: What is a budget, how to create and use a budget, what types of budgets are there. What is the relation with modeling and measuring. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creatio...

Fuzzy equivalents of all the classical capital budgeting (investment choice) methods are generalised or proposed. These equivalents can be used to evaluate and compare projects in which the cash ows, duration time and required rate of return (cost of capital) are given imprecisely, in the form of a fuzzy number. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Many articles have examined the psychological drivers of charitable giving, but little is known about how people mentally budget for charitable gifts. The present research aims to address this gap by investigating how perceptions of donations as exceptional (uncommon and infrequent) rather than ordinary (common and frequent) expenses might affect budgeting for and giving to charity. We provide ...

In this paper, we report the survey results from executives of companies in ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia – regarding their companies’ capital budgeting practices. We document interesting insights on how theoretical corporate finance concepts are applied by practit...

The study examined the relationship between budgeting and strategic plan implementation at Narok County Referral Hospital (NCRH). Using a descriptive research design sample size of 30, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to reduce number variables in data set. Correlation showed positive dependent variable (strategic implementation) independent (budgeting). Formal budgetary participatio...