- the importance of the result-oriented budgeting is that it allows to better
understand what goals government institutions set up, how their functional activities
meet the needs of different groups of the population and to what extent institutions can
achieve their goals.
One should also highlight the benefits of using result-based budgeting for
government, institutions and society (Table 1).
Table 1 Advantages of using RОВ
Benefits of using
RОВ for
government:
•
regular receipt of more complete information on the implementation of
public tasks and the use of budgetary funds in various areas of the state;
•
the possibility of more efficient allocation of budgetary funds between
competing items of expenditure due to obtaining more accurate and
complete information on the results of programs in accordance with the
priorities of public policy;
•
saving of budgetary funds at the expense of increase of an overall
performance public sector;
•
the ability to compare several proposed programs from the point of view
the expected results and costs;
•
preconditions for increasing control over the activities of ministries and
departments by setting performance indicators and comparing actually
achieved results with those planned;
•
identification and elimination of duplicative programs, inefficient
programs.
Benefits of using
RОВ for
institutions:
•
the possibility of self-spending budget funds to achieve the set results
(independence in the operational management of costs, savings, changes
in the cost structure, with respect to the limits of appropriations and
within programs);
•
the ability to at least approximately establish the relationship between the
expected results of the program and the amount of resources required for
this, it is better to plan its activities;
•
the possibility of reinforcing requests for increased budget funding
•
economically justified calculation of the effectiveness of the program.
Benefits of using
RОВ for society:
• results-based budgeting makes it possible to better understand what the
government's goals are, how well the goals are meeting the needs of the
population, to what extent these goals can be achieved and at what cost.
Source: authors’ development
The disadvantages of result-oriented budgeting are: the complexity and labor
intensity of the budgeting procedure; the ability to incorrectly determine the key values
of Key Performance Indicator.
The practical issues of implementing result-oriented budgeting. ROB in
Ukraine, as well as a complex analysis of the efficiency and advisability of sector and
horizontal expenditures and an increase in the transparency and accountability level
are the main part of the public finance management system, the development of which
is provided by the Public Finance Management Strategy for 2017-2021 years, approved
by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
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