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Performance Budgeting
Performance budgeting has been attempted at the local level in recent years. Address the issues
of performance budgeting while answering the following questions: What attributes of
performance budgeting make it particularly suitable to local government budgeting? Will the
same attributes be as useful at the federal level?
Solution
Performance Budgetingmeasures the activities in terms of output. It shows cost matching with
operation and the focus on decision making and evaluation is on output rather than merely on
expenditure. Performance Budgeting provide a meaningful relationship between estimated inputs
and expected outputs as an integral part of the budgeting system.
Attributes of performance budgeting which make it particularly suitable to local government
budgeting are as follows:-
1) Performance budgeting focuses at establishing a relationship between the inputs and the
outputs.
2) Traditional budgets highlights only the items of expenditure, namely salaries, stores,
materials, rates, rent etc. Whereas Performance budgeting emphasises more on the functions of
organisation, the programmes to discharge these functions and the activities which will be
involved in undertaking these programmes.
3) Performance budgeting facilitate to provide information on what the government is doing and
what it gets for the money spent.
4) Performance budgeting is related to management efficiency especially in the government
affairs.
These all attributes are useful at the federal level..

1. Performance Budgeting
Performance budgeting has been attempted at the local level in recent years. Address the issues
of performance budgeting while answering the following questions: What attributes of
performance budgeting make it particularly suitable to local government budgeting? Will the
same attributes be as useful at the federal level?

Solution

Performance Budgetingmeasures the activities in terms of output. It shows cost matching with
operation and the focus on decision making and evaluation is on output rather than merely on
expenditure. Performance Budgeting provide a meaningful relationship between estimated inputs
and expected outputs as an integral part of the budgeting system.
Attributes of performance budgeting which make it particularly suitable to local government
budgeting are as follows:-
1) Performance budgeting focuses at establishing a relationship between the inputs and the
outputs.
2) Traditional budgets highlights only the items of expenditure, namely salaries, stores,
materials, rates, rent etc. Whereas Performance budgeting emphasises more on the functions of
organisation, the programmes to discharge these functions and the activities which will be
involved in undertaking these programmes.
3) Performance budgeting facilitate to provide information on what the government is doing and
what it gets for the money spent.
4) Performance budgeting is related to management efficiency especially in the government
affairs.
These all attributes are useful at the federal level.