Purpose This study aims to provide evidence of how budget officers use non-financial and accrual-based cost information in the budgeting process usage this is influenced by financial constraints. Design/methodology/approach A randomized survey-based field experiment investigating 546 Japanese local governments (LGs) was conducted. allowed us identify officers' decision-making public sector crea...

This paper complements the ongoing empirical discussion surrounding participative budgeting by comparing its economic merits relative to a top-down budgeting alternative. We analyze a screening model of participative budgeting where the subordinate uses the budgeting mechanism to relay private information to his superior, in addition to a signaling model of top-down budgeting where the superior...

Participatory budgeting is one of the exciting developments in deliberative grassroots democracy. We concentrate on approval elections and propose proportional representation axioms in participatory budgeting, by generalizing relevant axioms for approval-based multi-winner elections. We observe a rich landscape with respect to the computational complexity of identifying proportional budgets and...

In today’s business world whose characteristics include limited financial resources it is critical to identify and monitor where and how these resources need to be invested in the company. The Master Budget represents a plan of action which specifies how financial resources will be acquired and invested during a particular time period. Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) is a budgeting approach that...

This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (" performance budgeting ").

The principles of Good University Governance (GUG) need to be developed in all academic activities and university management. most important part management affect performance is the budgeting. This study aims are 1) review implementation Gorontalo State budgeting 2) identify conflicts occurred preparation budget. research conducted by descriptive qualitative method. data collected (1) in-depth...