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Performance Budgeting: Efforts to Restructure Budgets to Better Align Resources with Performance

GAO-05-117SP Published: Feb 01, 2005. Publicly Released: Mar 15, 2005.
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Efforts to better align and integrate budget and performance information raises many issues, including the question of budget structure--should appropriations accounts or congressional budget justifications or both be restructured to tighten the link between resources and performance? If so, how and to what extent? The administration elevated attention to this issue by including budget restructuring as part of the President's Management Agenda in 2001. To provide an overview of the various budget restructuring efforts underway in the federal government, GAO: (1) summarized steps taken by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and nine selected agencies to better align their budgets with performance and to better capture the cost of performance in the budget; (2) discussed the potential implications of these efforts for congressional oversight and executive branch managerial flexibility and accountability; (3) described the experiences and implementation challenges associated with these efforts; and (4) identified lessons learned that can provide insights useful in considering current and future budget restructuring efforts.

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AccountabilityAppropriation accountsBudget administrationBudget controllabilityBudget obligationsBudget outlaysCongressional budgetsCurrent budget levelExecutive agenciesFuture budget projectionsInformation resources managementInternal controlsLessons learnedPerformance measuresPerformance-based budgeting