But these funds may take some time to be further transferred to subsidiary spending units under the line ministries and then be spent on the salaries or goods and services that constitute final expenditure. The link was not copied. Assets and liabilities of the government are increased and recorded in the books, if an accrual accounting system is established. A Government Deficit is the amount of money in the set budget by which the government expenditure exceeds the government income amount. These include appropriation control, commitment control, and accounting control. This will be dependent on sustained improvements in financial management standards and management information, and assurance of a control-conscious culture in each agency. This should be supported by adequate monitoring at each stage of the expenditure cycle and ex post auditparticularly external audit to start withto ensure effective compliance. Table 4 lists some specific tools and measures that can address weaknesses at different stages of the expenditure cycle. This type of spending includes funding for entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security and other payments to people, businesses, and state and local governments. Non-contractual commitments (subsidies, transfers, etc.) Article 78 of the WAEMU Directive No. For other expenditure items, the devolution is based on the assessed effectiveness (through formal capacity audits) of the internal control system of the line agency and its risk management capacity. However, the complexity of the expenditure chain, the precise nature of the controls exercised at each stage, and the degree of centralization varies considerably across countries and is heavily influenced by their respective administrative traditions. Much of the government's spending is a form of income or wealth redistribution, which is aimed at benefiting society as a whole. In this context, the function of financial and expenditure control has been merged with the treasury and verification of the regularity of certain current expenditures (such as salaries, leases and certain procurement contracts) has been delegated to line agencies at the commitment level. Each request for apportionment or reapportionment should be accompanied by a financial or cash plan from the relevant ministry or spending agency supporting the request for ensuring that apportionment and cash management functions are well integrated.10. Any perceived risks and/or uncertainties should also be adequately addressed. How Do Treasury Systems Operate in sub-Saharan Francophone Africa? Reforms could usefully be implemented in phases as follows: In the first phase, the focus should be on establishing basic control functions such as centralized control of apportionments and simplified/streamlined but effective controls42 at other stages of the expenditure cycle, particularly commitment control backed by cash planning43 linked to timely release of funds to spending agencies. Reservation. No verification/certification system (i.e., payment orders issued without verification). The public accountant assumes personal financial responsibility for compliance with regulations and is accountable to the Court of Accounts (Cours des comptes), the supreme audit institution. The system of payments to government suppliers was highly decentralized. When sequestering appropriations, ongoing commitments should be taken into account. Approaches to prioritising expenditure where there are competing demands for funding. At the same time, centralization has the disadvantage of: (i) undermining spending responsibilities of managers in line agencies in the day-to-day management of line ministries/agencies budgets; (iii) inefficient decision-making (including superimposed prioritization) and rigid controls by the ministry of finance when it lacks the detailed information on the spending requirements of agencies;26 and (iv) presenting opportunities for rent seeking by officials implementing multiple and cumbersome controls. In the absence of this coordination, spending ministries/agencies can potentially frontload their commitments even if adequate cash is not likely to be available for payment when the commitments materialize, or the treasury may not raise the necessary finance to meet cash requirements. Apportionment, reservation, commitment and payment order stages and virements during budget execution. For a further discussion on expenditure arrears, see S. Flynn and M. 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Verification (or certification). KUALA LUMPUR, March 1 The government still has space to monitor the country's expenditure particularly development expenditure to ensure it is more prudent and accurate according to the project plans and this will indirectly assist the government in terms of better revenue needs. the responsibilities of the relevant actors in enforcing these controls. Payment. 2. There has been a proliferation of special procedures in a number of countries (particularly in Africa) that are designed for the benefit of powerful vested interests (who want a faster spending process for specific transactions, closer tracking of certain resources, and/or the accommodation of special institutional interests/arrangements). A long check float time is not a good practice as it not only complicates cash management but can also be misused to write and issue checks despite not having enough liquidity in the bank account to cover the value of the check. Key Stages of Expenditure Control Framework, Seven key stages of the expenditure cycle, III. Accrual-based budgeting systems enforce limits on the incurrence of liabilities, expenses or expenditure even when no immediate cash transactions are involved. To reduce the deficit or the gap between the expenditures and income, the government may cut back on certain expenditures and also . Limit on amount of expenditure. This TNM has benefited from review and comments of M. Cangiano, M. Fouad, R. Hughes, R. Allen, R. Boukezia, B. Chevauchez, S. Flynn, D. Gentry, T. Hansen, R. Hurtado Arcos, C. Iles, D. Last, J. Menkulasi, D. Moretti, M. Nozaki, B. Olden, M. Pessoa, J Seiwald, H. van Eden, A. Veloz, B. Wiest, and several other colleagues from both the PFM divisions of FAD. Managing the change process would involve communicating effectively to all relevant stakeholders a broad understanding of why the changes are necessary and what objectives are sought to be achieved. Next. Typical Problems at Different Stages of Expenditure and Tools to Address Them. Allen, R., and D. Radev, 2009, Extrabudgetary Funds, Technical Notes and Manuals (Washington: International Monetary Fund). While providing examples of expenditure control practices from more than 32 countries, the paper points out that more than two-thirds of the 85 low and middle income countries covered by the publicly available Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments have weak systems of expenditure control that are also associated with higher levels of expenditure arrears and a lack of budget credibility. The classification of public expenditure can be done in 4 ways: Revenue Expenditure The revenue expenditure is funded through the current revenue of the government that includes taxes and non-tax revenues such as welfare schemes or profits, or incidental incomes. Accounting and monitoring of budget execution were carried out by the banking system. In addition, the approach did not stipulate any time frame for agencies to upgrade their PFM standards, and there was an underestimation of their capacity-building needs. It may also have a role in appropriation and commitment controls through its representatives posted in spending agencies (as in Francophone systems). Defence Services: They account for nearly 20% of the total revenue expenditure of the Central Government in India. Advertisement. Governments expenditure must be within the amounts that the budget appropriations have established, with some flexibility allowed through virements and contingency reserve mechanisms. _paq.push(['trackPageView']); This is known as retenciones de crdito in Spain (and a similar arrangement in Portugal) and engagement budgtaire in France which precedes the engagement juridique or legal commitment stage. The role of an expenditure control system is to ensure that the level and allocation of government expenditure reflect the will of the legislature as voted for in the budget.3 Expenditure controls should also reflect sound financial management principles, ensuring that public resources are utilized efficiently, incurred obligations are cleared in a timely manner, abuse/ misappropriation of public money is prevented, and private actors compete on a level playing field for government contracts. This information is then used for preparing the baseline estimates of the detailed medium-term budget forecast. The payment stage, however, is executed by a separate centralized agency (with regional branches)called cash offices in Germany and the Federal Accounting Agency in Austriawhich processes and keeps records of all payments and is in charge of accounting and preparation of financial reports. Checks and/or electronic transfer instructions bounce due to lack of cash. There is also lack of control over agencies with own revenue outside the treasury system. Government expenditures as a share of national output went sharply up and down in these countries, mainly because of changes in defense spending and national incomes. government budget, forecast by a government of its expenditures and revenues for a specific period of time. PEFA Scores (200614) of 85 Countries for Expenditure Control Indicator, Citation: Technical Notes and Manuals 2016, 002; 10.5089/9781513574639.005.A001, Expenditure Control and Budget Credibility. These procedures also lead to significant differences between fiscal accounts and financing data (i.e., between above- and below-the-line data).38, Austrian. In most cases, researchers assume that control of corruption, rule of law, accountability, and government expenditure tend to have a positive impact on government effectiveness. Reforming Budget Systems A Practical Guide, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Prevention and Management of Government Expenditure Arrears, Review of Financial Management in Government, (, ). var _paq = window._paq || []; For similar examples, see also R. Allen et al, The Evolving Functions and Organization of Finance Ministries, IMF Working Paper WP/15/232 (2015). They can be more easily circumvented, presenting the potential for error or fraud. What are the main areas of expenditure for local government? See Guidelines for Internal Control in the Public Sector at http://www.issai.org/media/13329/intosai_gov_9100_e.pdf. Khan, A., and M. Pessoa, 2013, Accrual Budgeting; Opportunities and Challenges, Chapter 11, PFM and its Emerging Architecture (Washington: International Monetary Fund). Controls at the commitment, verification and payment order stages remain the responsibility of the line ministries and agencies. A change management strategy should also be developed and implemented, taking into consideration the implications of the reform strategy for diverse stakeholders, from senior officials to agency heads, and the personnel who will support the new systems. While this was a common practice in most of the Latin American countries several years ago, many countriese.g., Bolivia, Columbia, Paraguay, and Uruguayhave in recent years separated the accounting and audit functions. In many cases, a transaction processing system may have to be supplemented by specialized consolidation software to generate the necessary reports in a timely manner. In some countries, the ministry of finance uses sequestering to prevent such risks. Payment and verification (in case of accrual accounting) stages. This includes countries where the ministry of finance assigns a financial controller or a budget offcer to each line ministry in order to control expenditure commitments. Payment order. For example, prior to the 1990s, financial control was under the Presidency (Cte dIvoire), the Prime Ministers Office (Senegal), or was the responsibility of a separate ministry. There is regular reporting and monitoring of overdue liabilities. Key challenges: need for sufficiently strong capacity in line agencies to implement the required controls (a challenge in fragile states); dispersed expenditure data could make timely financial reporting difficult; and lack of strong oversight (e.g., internal and external audit) and sanctions for non-compliance may create opportunities for fraudulent transactions. Types of Fiscal Policy The government has control over both taxes and government spending. They maintain systems of internal control, and regularly report to the ministry of finance and other central agencies on their financial operations. Seven Key Stages of the Expenditure Chain. A unit of government, typically a line ministry, department or agency, is assigned the responsibility to ensure that the appropriated resources are spent as intended within the authorized limits. Under accrual budgeting systems, there can be differences in both the choice of binding constraint and the fungibility of other constraints. Since commitments usually mature as payments, their control is an essential part of overall expenditure control and prevention of expenditure arrears.11 A commitment does not mean that a payment will necessarily be made within the same fiscal year. This is especially true for expenditure on multi-annual investment projects (see Section III for multi-year expenditure limits on commitments). Delivery date is captured and time lag between delivery and verification monitored. As part of the comprehensive reform of its budget framework in 2001, France introduced multiannual commitment authorizations as a means of controlling expenditure obligations and associated payments for programs or projects that span more than one year (e.g., investment projects). Limit on time horizon of expenditure. In countries of the British Commonwealth tradition, officials in spending agencies are charged with initiating and authorizing expenditure transactions, from commitment to payment, based on apportionments/allotments/warrants issued by the ministry of finance. While the institutional arrangements for raising government revenue are typically quite centralized in a national revenue authority, the expenditure of those resources involves a wide array of public entities at various levels of government, even in countries with relatively centralized PFM systems. Check float time is the time between when a check is written and issued as a payment, and when the check is presented by the beneficiary to the bank for encashment. Authorized purpose of the expenditure. As such, the focus of expenditure control at the commitment phase of budget execution has moved from an annual to a multiannual basis, i.e., the total cost of a legal commitment into which the government is entering into is fully recorded against the available multiannual commitment authorizations/AEs. When the float of unpaid checks is significant, payments should also be reported on the basis of checks encashed/paid. 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In fact, with the functionalities available from a modern IT-based FMIS, information on budget execution can be made quickly available, and it becomes straightforward for the ministry of finance/treasury to track expenditure transactions as they pass through the various stages of the expenditure cycle, even when transactions are fully administered within line agencies. Ensures that transactions are properly recorded and accounted for to produce timely and reliable fiscal reports and financial statements. In addition to reviewing and streamlining the formal procedures defined by the financial regulations, informal and any special procedures and practices that bypass the normal expenditure cycle should be thoroughly reviewed and (to the extent possible) eliminated.44 Business rules and processes should be established to enable faster spending execution to address priority needs rather than relying on informal/special procedures that undermine the effectiveness of the expenditure control framework. For example, the commitment stage of the expenditure cycle has received a lot of attention of late, but addressing issues just at the commitment stage may not result in a robust expenditure control framework (and prevention of expenditure arrears) as evidenced in several countries. The strengthening of the expenditure control framework should not be viewed as an independent activity and should be integrated with other PFM reforms, including changes to budget execution processes. Payment. Moussa, Y., 2004, Public Expenditure Management in Francophone Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis, Working Paper WP/04/42, (Washington: International Monetary Fund). Evaluating the strength of expenditure controls and addressing any weaknesses requires a clear understanding of the key features of an effective expenditure control system as well as the different approaches to putting them into practice. The amount should be correctly calculated and there should be no hidden expenses. The accounting officer in the spending ministry, usually the permanent secretary, is responsible for proper use and control of the ministry appropriations. A key question is whether reforms should focus on strengthening the traditional system or leapfrogging to the modern devolved approach. This paper will help public financial management practitioners to evaluate budget execution systems and identify priorities for strengthening expenditure controls. In the British Commonwealth system, there is no complementary period, and at the beginning of a new fiscal year, in principle, no cash transactions pertaining to the previous years budget should take place. To function effectively, this approach requires a high level of capacity in the line agencies with devolved authority, timely and transparent financial reporting, and a strong internal and external audit function. Key strengths: separation of responsibility for key control tasks; tracking key stages of expenditure cycle; and centralized repository of expenditure data; Key challenges: frequent and redundant controls make the expenditure process slow (and encourage proliferation of special procedures); interference by central agencies may undermine responsibilities of line managers; and possible manipulation of the complementary period. Mainly commitment, verification, payment order and payment stages, but also at other stages. Bank reconciliations, among other things, are critical to identifying potential misappropriation of public money. Both the central agency/finance ministry and line agencies are involved in various tasks during the expenditure cycle. To help PFM practitioners evaluate a countrys budget execution system and identify priorities for strengthening expenditure controls, this TNM: explains the key stages of the government expenditure chain (Section II); describes the (i) types of controls applied at each stage of the chain, their objectives, and key features; (ii) nature of expenditure limits in cash-based, commitment-based and accrual-based budgeting environments; (iii) centralized vs. decentralized approach to the exercise of those controls; and (iv) authority and responsibility of various institutional actors throughout the expenditure cycle (Section III); examines the influence of different administrative traditions on types of expenditure controls exercised and the allocation of responsibility for their application (Section IV); identifies the typical weaknesses and problems associated with different expenditure control traditions (Section V); and. A key point to note here is that without enhancing the capacity of the line agencies to meet the specified competency criteria, such devolution of controls are unlikely to take hold (e.g., the case of Thailand discussed in Box 4). PFM Traditions Influencing the Expenditure Control Framework, Tradition in the former Soviet Union countries, V. 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