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What is this site about?
What is at this site?
Who is helped by this site?
Who maintains this site? Why?
What is this site about?
- This is a practical guide to the budget process. The main element is a description of the United States Federal government's process for planning, budgeting, allocating, and spending money to accomplish its operational objectives. Focus is on the process as it affects Federal agencies and operating components -- the organizations that do the work and use resources to accomplish objectives.
- How resources are obtained by Federal agencies is explained. This process is not always straightforward, and there are many aspects that are generally not public information, yet this process directly and significantly affects managers of the organizations involved and the suppliers of services and materials to the government.
- To go directly to the process outline, click. Each step of the process is linked to a practical explanation of how the step affects line managers and their suppliers. As appropriate, operating component managers' strategies to deal with the process are explained.
- The site also includes:
budget references and concepts,
technical aspects of budget analysis,
outline of the pages at the site and search page for the site,
links to important budget and performance management sites, and
opinions on budget related matters from Laszlo Bockh
Who is helped by this site?
- People interested in the operations of Federal agencies. Resources are crucial for the operation of any organization. Federal
agencies obtain resources through the budget process. Understanding
resource issues related to agencies helps:
Federal managers to plan for the budget and its associated performance measures.
Federal employees better understand the process for obtaining money and managing performance for programs.
Contractors and grantees to gain insights into what their clients face in obtaining resources to fund their services.
Budget and program analysts and students to improve understanding of the Federal budget and performance management process and how these processes affect program operations.
To identify resources available to a Federal agency.
Who maintains this site?
The site is maintained by Laszlo Bockh, as a service to the budget analysis community. The site's material is copyrighted.