The Role Of Participatory Budgeting During The Construction Of The Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre

Secondly, I find that this project lacked oversight of a strong panel / board / committee to check the progress along with expenditures vs. budget. This was public money that was budgeted for a project and yet, there was no clear division between the payer and the decider as Rubin explains in “The Politics of Public Budgets”. As she states there are two critical characteristics of public

The budget process is a powerful planning tool for government to make important resource decisions. According the Carney and Schoenfeld‘s article on How to read a Budget, an operating budget is a reflection of government’s financial plans. When a budget is

Budget preparation is a process with designated groups and individuals having defined responsibilities. According to Irene S. Rubin “ The public budget process mediates between organizations and individuals who want different things and determines who gets what out of the budget.”1The Government set up an annual budget that includes people perspectives, opinions , accountability and than determine how the budget will get divided based on protected interests. Moreover, Public budgeting determines how government spend money, provide necessary resources , and limit government expenditures to prevent overspending.

Melbourne’s Federation Square was a Victorian Government initiative that was announced in 1996, with support from Melbourne City Council and the Commonwealth Government. The initial projected cost of the structure was estimated at $110 million, with a completion date of December 2000 (Matters of Public Interest 2003). The final estimated cost was over $470 million, with the official opening occurring in October 2002, even though the construction was not complete (Misiak 2003) (ABC 2003). Being such a high profile, exposed, arduous project, there were many factors that contributed to the various shortfalls over the 6-year timeframe. This report aims to identify key knowledge areas within project management and discuss improvements that could have been made to streamline the task and improve overall continuity.

The City of Philadelphia spends millions and millions of dollars each year trying to make Philadelphia a better and safer place for its citizens to live. Most may wonder well, what they really spend the money in budget on, and where does this money come from. I asked my immediate family, “How do you think the City of Philadelphia spends their money and where do you think the money comes from?” They couldn’t really come up with any good answer because they don’t know and just like many others, the only way they can see the city getting money is by the

Budgets are needed by many organisations and have been used since 1922, they’re considered to be key drivers and assessors of performance within a business. They’re mainly used in an attempt to plan and control organisations and their objectives. An organisation’s political structure is mainly affected by budgets as the managers at the top tend to use budgets as a means of power and authority. Traditional budgeting has both advantages and disadvantages; recently, critics seem to be against the use of traditional budgets within organisations. This is due to traditional budgeting being assumed to be very out of date; it has no way of being used in a contingency plan as it has nothing to do with the changes of markets. If the market

The budgeting process is an approach that needs to be carefully selected, managed, applied and controlled. As the CEO of the company my mission is ensure the right business practices are applied to generate better outcomes to our organization. Our current budgeting process is a popular approach used at many local, sate, or national governmental agencies, and nonprofit organization, which consist on spending at the end of the budget cycle the amount that was not used. Managers tend to do it, as they often feel that if they don 't spend such amount during that specific period, next year their budget will be reduced by the same dollar amount. This obviously could make managers to spend money unnecessary and manage resources in ways that can harm the company. The purpose of this memo is explain budget managers the reason why is not convenient to utilize the ‘use it or lose it’ approach as budgeting process due to its harmful effects and at the same time it will provide an alternative solution for our current system.

The question is why? Why are they still using budgeting when some claimed that it is not good enough? If it is true, then what is the best approach that fits every organisation? This essay structure starts off with the criticisms of budgeting, follows by the ways forward of budgeting for individual organisations and a simple suggestion to solve the endless debate about budgets and budgeting.

Although participation in budgeting may enforce the managerial performance, it has constrains and can cause some problems as well. This article analyses the possible advantages and limitations of the role of participation in budget setting. In the next section, the possible merits of budgetary participation are demonstrated. This is followed by a section that explains the equivocation existing in the relationship between budgetary participation and performance. Then, in the following section, some negative effects on the application of participation in budgeting progress are illustrated. The final section is the conclusion of the study.

When the newly elected government decides whether to allocate extra funds to complete a particular infrastructure project, the costs that have already been incurred become ‘sunk costs’. The decision should be based on a comparison of the extra benefits and extra costs that will result from completing the project, evaluated at that point in time. Insisting that all projects be completed could result in ‘throwing good money after bad’ and in investments being made by the government for which costs exceed benefits.

Performance measurement therefore, should establish to encourage the aim of the company and not individual or departmental goal. (Hannagan, 2008, p. 569)

Money is central to the functioning of a government, revenue is generated by the imposition of taxes and the money received is then spent by the Commonwealth subject to appropriation. The scope of the governments’ capacity to spend public moneys has been a controversial issue for many years, due to the uncertainty surrounding the scope of the spending power. This essay will determine which approach to Government’s control on expenditure is more favourable; the narrow approach, where Commonwealth’s financial expenditure should be limited to expenses authorised by statute or the wide approach, where the Government should have unlimited spending power. In order to determine this it is necessary to discuss the different Court’s conclusions and principles that apply in the interpretation of the relevant sections of the Constitution, specifically the appropriation provisions ss 81 and 83, executive powers provision s 61 and s 96 relating to State grants. This essay will also evaluate other cases to discuss the effects and developments they have had on determining the scope of Government’s spending power.

The budgeting process also provides the company management the right to communicate with the subordinate levels of its employees in order to implement and coordinate actions to achieve specific goals. This represents a specific way to motivate and control the behavior of managers, especially in situations when they participate in drawing up the budget treating it as a standard. It also allows evaluation of the actions management based on ability to achieve the objectives that have been defined by them in the budget.

The main responsibility of manager is planning for the future by deciding what should be done and how it will be achieved. Budget is such a formalized system of planning, forecasting, monitoring and controlling the use of resources which help the managers to achieve organization's objectives both in public sector and private sector. Budgets fulfill a number of roles in the management of organizations and different roles may cause some conflicts. Here, we will identify the principal roles of budgets and have a briefly comment on the compatibility of these differing roles.

During the 2009 budget cycle, the legislature not only reduced some important expenditure items as proposed by the executive, the National Assembly also took liberty to increase allocation for several items and introduce several new items into the budget. The National Assembly, as stated by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, however made effort to comply with overriding macro-economic projections of the executive and endeavoured to stay within the general principle of the budget. In my own opinion, the legislature pushed the frontiers of citizens, pro-poor budgeting a step further, by inserting development projects to be cited in each federal constituency