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Performance Budgeting: Fiscal Year 2000 Progress in Linking Plans With Budgets

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO updated its previous report on agencies' fiscal year (FY) 1999 experiences in linking plans and budgets under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, focusing on: (1) identifying agencies that allocated program activity funding to performance goals in their FY 2000 performance plans; and (2) the progress agencies have shown in making these allocations."
Date: July 30, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Initial Agency Experiences Provide a Foundation to Assess Future Directions

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed performance budgeting in the federal government, focusing on the: (1) postponement of the performance budgeting pilots that are required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA); and (2) challenges that confront these pilots and any effort to more closely relate performance expectations and spending estimates."
Date: July 1, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Current Developments and Future Prospects

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was enacted in 1993, federal agencies increasingly have been expected to link strategic plans and budget structures with program results. The current administration has taken several steps to strengthen and further the performance-resource linkage by making budget and performance integration one of its five management initiatives included in the President's Man… more
Date: April 1, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Opportunities and Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses efforts to link resources to results--also known as "performance budgeting." During the past decade, Congress and several administrations have put in place a structure for increasing the focus on and accountability for government performance. Federal agencies have been working to carry out the Government Performance Act, which requires the development of periodic strategic and annual perform… more
Date: September 19, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool Presents Opportunities and Challenges For Budget and Performance Integration

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) is meant to provide a consistent approach to evaluating federal programs during budget formulation. The subcommittee asked GAO to discuss our recent report, Performance Budgeting: Observations on the Use of OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool for the Fiscal 2004 Budget (GAO-04-174) and strategies for improving PART and furthering the … more
Date: February 4, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: OMB's Performance Rating Tool Presents Opportunities and Challenges For Evaluating Program Performance

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Performance Assessment Rating Tool (PART) is meant to provide a consistent approach to evaluating federal programs during budget formulation. The subcommittee asked GAO to discuss its overall findings and recommendations concerning PART, based on a recent report, Performance Budgeting: Observations on the Use of OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool for the Fiscal Year 2004… more
Date: March 11, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: States' Experiences Can Inform Federal Efforts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "With a number of challenges facing the nation--including a long-term fiscal imbalance--agencies need to maximize their performance and leverage available resources and authorities to achieve maximum value while managing risk. Examining state efforts to increase the focus on performance and their experiences in responding to recent fiscal stress can offer insights into practices that may assist federal d… more
Date: February 28, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Observations on the Use of OMB's Program Assessment Rating Tool for the Fiscal Year 2004 Budget

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) is meant to provide a consistent approach to evaluating federal programs during budget formulation. To better understand its potential, congressional requesters asked GAO to examine (1) how PART changed OMB's fiscal year 2004 budget decisionmaking process, (2) PART's relationship to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1… more
Date: January 30, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: PART Focuses Attention on Program Performance, but More Can Be Done to Engage Congress

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO was asked to examine (1) the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) and agency perspectives on the effects that the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) recommendations are having on agency operations and program results; (2) OMB's leadership in ensuring a complementary relationship between the PART and the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA); and (3) steps OMB has taken to invol… more
Date: October 28, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Efforts to Restructure Budgets to Better Align Resources with Performance

Description: Other written product issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "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 restructuri… more
Date: February 1, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Performance Budgeting: Initial Experiences Under the Results Act in Linking Plans With Budgets

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed selected fiscal year (FY) 1999 federal agency performance plans, focusing on: (1) agencies' approaches to linking performance goals and budgetary resources; (2) characteristics that might be associated with different approaches to linking performance goals and budgetary resources; and (3) implications for future efforts to clarify the relationship between budge… more
Date: April 12, 1999
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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