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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. Often the same type of verification/control is applied at multiple stages of the expenditure cycle, thereby rendering the control redundant and tedious. Bank-Qualified Municipal Bonds Marketplace Fairness and RTPA State and Local Tax Deduction (SALT) PolicyStatements Accounting, Auditing and Financial Reporting Budgeting and Financial Management Intergovernmental Relations and Federal Fiscal Policy Public Employee Pension and Benefits Administration The presence of dual appropriations (either commitment/cash or accrual/cash) can complicate control of budget execution by spending agencies. These procedures also lead to significant differences between fiscal accounts and financing data (i.e., between above- and below-the-line data).38, Austrian. Elementary and secondary education, utilities, public safety, health, roads, street lamps, signs, and traffic lights are the main areas of expenditure of the local governments. PEFA PI-22; and average time lag between delivery and verification. For similar examples, see also R. Allen et al, The Evolving Functions and Organization of Finance Ministries, IMF Working Paper WP/15/232 (2015). The cash plans should be prepared in conformity with budget authorization and systematically take account of ongoing commitments. Defence Services: They account for nearly 20% of the total revenue expenditure of the Central Government in India. The authority for expenditure is given for a specific pre-defined purpose. 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. Payment and verification (in case of accrual accounting) stages. 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. Accurate costing of policies and programs, and a comprehensive expenditure authorization framework that captures all expenditure measures. The line agencies have responsibility for executing their budget and managing the funds/ resources assigned to them. while others are purely internal to the government. Sometimes called the Westminster system of PFM. The research seeks to learn from good practice outside UK Central Government and focuses on: The budget processes in place. No cash availability to make payments within the time horizon of apportionment. Fiscal measures are frequently used in tandem with monetary policy to achieve certain goals. Key Stages of Expenditure Control Framework, Seven key stages of the expenditure cycle, III. Once a payment order has been issued, payments are made through various instruments including checks, electronic fund transfer (EFT), and sometimes cash, in favor of a supplier or other recipient to discharge the liability. HM Treasury, 2013, Review of Financial Management in Government, (www.gov.uk). Payment orders are issued after documentary proof of verification. 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. Whereas, in Francophone systems, the financial control officer is employed by the Budget Office, in Lusophone systems the payment-authorizing officer is employed by the Accounting Office. would still require manual intervention. A distinguishing feature of a governments budget, unlike the budget of a typical business entity, is that it is funded primarily via compulsory taxation of citizens and authorized via an act of Parliament. A lack of effective expenditure controls not only threatens macroeconomic stability and fiscal discipline, but can also call into question the integrity of the public financial management system and undermine trust in a governments stewardship of public resources. In Francophone systems, a guiding principle is that the official who orders payments has to be different from the official who makes the payments. For multiannual programs/projects, the approved budget includes both the multiannual commitment limits (autorisations dengagement or AE) against which it also sets annual limits (crdits de paiement or CP) for cash payments during the year. If a liability has been incurred by the end of the fiscal year, this would be enough to report the expense or expenditure against the accrual appropriation. 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. 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. 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. A key question is whether reforms should focus on strengthening the traditional system or leapfrogging to the modern devolved approach. Verification of goods and services (contrle du service fait): This control involves: (i) verification of the goods and/or services delivered by a supplier to ensure that these conform to the specified quality and quantity; and (ii) a calculation of the liability incurred by the government to the supplier. At the same time, they have the disadvantage of: (i) potential disparate application of controls by various agencies particularly when the control criteria are not well defined; (ii) increasing the risks of non-compliance and/or collusion (as both the authority to spend and the responsibility to ensure the regularity of transactions is assigned to the same agency) in the absence of strong internal and external audit functions; and (iii) prolonging the preparation of financial reports (as expenditure data has to be collected and complied from multiple sources) required by central agencies for budget execution monitoring. The main reforms include enhancing the coverage of the budget, improving the methodology of costing budget policies, introducing medium-term fiscal and budget frameworks, and ensuring timely submission and approval of the budget by the legislature. In case of relatively simple requirements, a spreadsheet-based application may suffice. As such, the AEs are consumed at the commitment stage of the expenditure or the legal act of signing a contract of the State with a third party.1 In the case of a commitment running over several years, its associated CP is spread over several budget years up to the cumulative maximum amount of the initial multiannual AE. This used to be the case in all but three countries (Cameroon, Mali and Burkina Faso) of the 12 countries that comprise Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The paper also examines the influence of different administrative traditions on types of expenditure controls, including the authority and responsibility of various institutional actors. Once checks are made to ensure that all previously stipulated controls have been performed and documented, a payment order is issued. For example, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe. 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. Payments authorized in annual budget do not fully reflect commitments carried forward from previous years (e.g., investment projects contracts). multi-year limits for certain types of expenditure (e.g., autorisation d'engagement: for multi-year investment projects in Francesee Box 3). Total revenue including grants . Lusophone African countries are also characterized by a higher degree of centralization in the sense that the overall budget execution responsibility, including the responsibility for financial control, is usually concentrated in one office: either the budget office itself (e.g., in Guine Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe) or the accounting office (e.g., in Angola and Mozambique). 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. 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. At this stage, after goods have been delivered and/or services have been rendered by a supplier, an authorized officer within the spending unit concerned verifies their conformity with the contract or order, and that a liability and due date of payment are recognized. Types of Control, Their Key Features and Objectives. As these countries transitioned to market-based economies, they established centralized treasury departments under the finance ministry to process payments and exercise control at the payment stage. Therefore, entering into a commitment or incurring a liability in excess of the limit would not, in the absence of other controls, constitute a breach of law. Lienert, I., 2009, Modernizing Cash Management, Technical Notes and Manuals, (Washington: International Monetary Fund). The commitment stage is the point at which a potential future obligation to pay is established. 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. This is mainly prevalent in Austria, Germany, and partially in some neighboring countries. The expenditure cycle and associated controls in Lusophone African countries34 are quite similar to the control framework in Francophone systems, but there are a few key differences. This principle of separation of responsibility means that no single individual or agency controls all stages of an expenditure transaction.29 The system has also a number of potential redundancies, e.g., the control of regularity is applied both by financial controllers and public accountants. The nature of those expenditure limits depends on the accounting basis (cash, commitment, or accrual) used in the budget (see Section III). Ensures that expenditure is covered in the budget and the proposed amount of expenditure includes all relevant expenses. the use of policy (such as fiscal policy or monetary policy) to reduce the severity of recessions and excessively strong expansions; the goal of stabilization policy is not to eliminate the business cycle, just to smooth it out. 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. Seven Key Stages of the Expenditure Chain. Percentage of reserved amount that materializes as commitment; and average time lag between reservation and commitment. Table 1 below summarizes the types of control applied during various stages of the expenditure cycle, their key features and objectives. The scope for establishing such advanced systems, however, remains challenging in many developing countries. No verification/certification system (i.e., payment orders issued without verification). Lack of a credible expenditure authorization/appropriation framework, including cost underestimation by spending agencies. If a future valuation shows that the costs of a scheme have risen or have fallen, action needs to be taken (via adjustments to member benefits or member contributions) to return costs to the level of the cap. This model assigns both the authority to spend and the responsibility to ensure the regularity of each transaction to the same agency. Commitment. var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; Even when payment processing and expenditure controls are decentralized, a central aggregate control on cash is still required. Fiscal policy refers to the use of government spending and tax policies to influence macroeconomic conditions, including aggregate demand, employment, inflation and economic growth. 4, Paris. This authority to spend is released to the spending units through the issue of warrants/allotments/dcret de rpartition, or other mechanisms.9 Some form of centralized control during this phase of the expenditure cycle is common in almost all countries and is usually enforced by the budget department of the ministry of finance. They are also reconciled with bank statements. Despite their different administrative origins, there has been some convergence between various expenditure control systems in recent years. What are the main areas of expenditure for local government? Commitment. Expenditures at the verification stage are sometimes called accrued expenditures (e.g., in the US), accounts payable, or actual expenses. Effective expenditure control is the sine qua non of good public financial management (PFM). The reform strategy and action plan should provide for monitoring the progress. Minimizes the cost of financing government programs by smoothing the gap between cash inflows and outflows. This objective is achieved by appropriations. Identifying gaps and weaknesses in expenditure control in a particular country requires a systematic review of the integrity of the expenditure cycle, looking at: Definition/specification of key stages of the expenditure cycle, including the control criteria. Pattanayak, S., and I. Fainboim, 2011, Treasury Single Account: An Essential Tool for Government Cash Management, Technical Notes and Manuals (Washington: International Monetary Fund). In both centralized and decentralized systems, there should be regular bank reconciliation of transactions27 and reporting of expenditure against authorized allocations by spending agencies. Browne, E., 2010, Reforming Budget Systems A Practical Guide, United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 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). The amount of interest depends on the total federal debt and interest rates. Commitment approval is linked to (and cancels) the respective reserved amount. The new 2009 WAEMU/CEMAC directives, however, call for a shift from centralized to decentralized ordonnancement in these countries. As shown in Figures 13, Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessments covering 85 low and middle income countries revealed that: more than two-thirds of these countries have relatively weak systems of expenditure control as indicated by a score of C or D on the PEFA expenditure control indicator PI-20 (Figure 1); weak expenditure controls are associated with higher levels of expenditure arrears as measured by PEFA indicator PI-4 (Figure 2); 2 and. This paper defines and explains key stages of the government expenditure chain and describes the controls applied at each stage, including their objectives and key features as well as centralized vs. decentralized approaches in application of those controls. 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. Bouley, D., and others, 2003, How Do Treasury Systems Operate in sub-Saharan Francophone Africa? OECD Journal on Budgeting, OECD, Vol. Show question Question This includes, but not limited to: failure to check the availability of funding before authorizing expenditure; failure to record and maintain data on commitments; delays in processing of payments; circumvention of controls at key stages, including through collusion; and poor record keeping, including of verification documents. Payment order is issued within the payment due date to discharge the recognized liability. France, following the introduction of a new organic budget law in 2001, overhauled the budget execution system by decentralizing it somewhat toward line ministries. When the government uses fiscal policy to increase the amount of money available to the populace, this is called expansionary fiscal policy. : A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process; The Case of Argentina, Public Expenditure Efficiency in Health Care in Latin America and the Caribbean: Highlights from an IDB Workshop on Public Expenditure Efficiency and Outcomes, Zanzibar: Social protection expenditure and performance review and social budget, China's State-Owned Enterprises as Climate Policy Actors: The Power and Steel Sectors, Balancing Control and Flexibility in Public Expenditure Management: Using Banking Sector Innovations for Improved Expenditure Control and Effective Service Delivery. As part of the budgetary accounting, commitments and payments made (through the CPs) against each AE are tracked to identify and report on (i) AE approved in budget law; (ii) AE consumed through legal commitments; (iii) AE unused/available for new commitments; (iv) CP authorized in budget law; and (v) payments made or CP consumed (see figure below). Sweden has a separate debt management agency which also administers the TSA system. In most cases, funds can be moved quite freely between sub-programs and items within the year. There is potential scope for over commitments and/or manipulation of in-year data on commitments which may not be systematically recorded/tracked in a timely manner at the respective stage of the expenditure cycle.39, Scandinavian. var _paq = window._paq || []; The authority for expenditure is Fiscal rules, medium-term budget plans, and annual budgets are meaningless if expenditure cannot be controlled during execution. The key difference is in the degree of centralization between countries that follow the British Commonwealth, German-Austrian, and Scandinavian traditions of PFM and those that follow the Napoleonic traditions of PFM (France, Portugal, and Spain). This is what constitutes the hierarchical and risk-based control (control modul de la dpense) that Morocco has started to implement since 2008 (based on Decree n 207-1235 of November 4, 2008). Box 2 describes the other specific controls that can supplement these general controls. The budget should be implemented as formulated and authorized with as little deviation as possible, but there should be room to adjust to changing circumstances (e.g., genuinely unexpected events) by modifying the budget as necessary during the year. 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. In some countries, the ministry of finance uses sequestering to prevent such risks. In some countries, one single department may be responsible for both treasury management and accounting functions (which may be discharged by different divisions/units within the same department). A fundamental principle of public finance is that expenditure and revenue proposals must be legally authorized to ensure accountability. Types of Controls and Institutional Actors, Controls applied at different stages of the expenditure cycle, Authority and responsibility of various institutional actors, IV. 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. Bank reconciliations, among other things, are critical to identifying potential misappropriation of public money. Reports from the central bank, based on bank payments data classified by bank code (a compressed form of the budget/accounts classification) provided the only basis for in-year control of budget implementation. Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Somali Regional State Government), Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region), Timor-Leste Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability Assessment 2018: Public Financial Management Performance Report, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513574639.005. Spending agencies submit month-wise expenditure plans (along with their budget submission) to serve as the basis for issuance of spending authority (warrant/allotment) after budget approval. Large delay between actual delivery and verification (leading to late payments, interests, arrears, etc). Broader PFM and enforcement issues affecting budget execution and expenditure control. Lienert, I., 2003, A Comparison Between Two Public Expenditure Management Systems in Africa, Working Paper WP/03/2, (Washington: International Monetary Fund). Other specific controls relate to specific types of transactions and are designed to either reinforce macro-fiscal discipline and sustainability (e.g., controls on payroll, pensions, and incurrence or liquidation of liabilities or guarantees) or safeguard the integrity and efficiency of public procurement and payroll systems. In the third phase, a risk-based approach to control (control modul de la dpense) could be introduced, which in essence comprises the replacement of systematic ex ante control at the line item/transaction level by ex post audit and strengthened oversight. In the German-Austrian tradition,35 as in Francophone and Lusophone systems, there is a clear division between the roles of ordering or anordnend (which covers the apportionment of the budget, together with the reservation, commitment, verification and payment order stages) and executing or ausfuehrend (which covers the execution of payments). 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. Public sector spending, also referred to as government spending or public expenditure, refers to the money that the government spends. It is a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the Government in a financial year (which begins on 01 April of the current year and ends on 31 March of the following year). 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. It also proposes some indicatorsmainly based on the PEFA frameworkthat could be used to assess reform progress. Both the central agency/finance ministry and line agencies are involved in various tasks during the expenditure cycle. They can be more easily circumvented, presenting the potential for error or fraud. 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