The key players are financial controllers (contrleurs financiers) who are generally under the Budget Department of the ministry of finance and exercise a priori control (in the form of issuance of a visa) at the commitment stage, commitment officers (ordonnateurs) who approve the issuance of payment orders to the Treasury, and public accountants or cashiers (comptables publics) who belong to the public accounting directorate and are responsible for ensuring that the verified bills are paid. Commitment. Other Controls Specific to Particular Types of Transactions. Clarity of the legal and regulatory framework, including the roles of the key actors. The introduction of an FMIS can thus strengthen expenditure controls as the system can replace several key controls that were previously applied manually and systematically track them. : 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. These include appropriation control, commitment control, and accounting control. Shorter check validity period to minimize check float; monitoring of check floats and delay in electronic transfers. In particular, it is important to ensure effective coordination between issuance of warrants/allotments by the budget department and cash planning and management by the treasury so that adequate cash is available for payment when the line ministries/agencies expenditure commitments materialize.23 Similarly, transaction level bank reconciliation by the accounting department and/or line agencies should be coordinated with the treasury departments monitoring of cash balances in various bank accounts. In cases where the expenditure involves a previous ongoing contract (e.g., wages, utilities, rent, debt service) or statutory obligation (e.g., transfers to subnational governments, payments of household benefits, etc. Mariance analysis is the budgeting review technique universally applied for analyzing budgeting estimates. This is mainly prevalent in Austria, Germany, and partially in some neighboring countries. This may lead to potential arrears. If an FMIS is planned or under implementation, some measures towards revamping the expenditure control framework will have to be implemented in tandem with the FMIS. By managing its portfolio of debt, it can affect interest rates, and by deciding on the amount of new money injected into the economy . 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. France, following the introduction of a new organic budget law in 2001, overhauled the budget execution system by decentralizing it somewhat toward line ministries. 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. 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). HM Treasury, 2013, Review of Financial Management in Government, (www.gov.uk). For example, in the United States mandatory or entitlement programs, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and certain other programs are not controlled by annual appropriations, except for the requirement to show a corresponding increase or decrease in the costs of these programs due to any envisaged changes. For this purpose, the spending units were grouped into two categories and the devolution of financial and expenditure control started with the best-performing line agencies at the superior level. The main thrust of reforms is to ensure that payments are made within the due date to prevent accumulation of payables/arrears, extend the horizon of the cash plan which also reflects expected payments, and eliminate exceptional procedures for payment. Payment. Allen, R., and D. Radev, 2009, Extrabudgetary Funds, Technical Notes and Manuals (Washington: International Monetary Fund). Finally, it discusses typical weaknesses/problems associated with different traditions of expenditure control and suggests specific measures for strengthening the control framework. 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. To reduce the deficit or the gap between the expenditures and income, the government may cut back on certain expenditures and also . Moussa, Y., 2004, Public Expenditure Management in Francophone Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis, Working Paper WP/04/42, (Washington: International Monetary Fund). Article 78 of the WAEMU Directive No. It was centralized by a 1997 directive that applies to all the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries. Key strengths: centralized payment and treasury accounting system. Three of the seven stages (commitment, verification, and payment) involve a third party (a creditor, supplier, beneficiary, etc.) 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. 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. while others are purely internal to the government. For example, under an accrual-based budgeting system, the ministry of finance may: (i) delegate to spending agencies all decisions on their cash requirements and the timing of cash payments as long as the agencies conform to the expenses authorized on accrual basis; (ii) enforce a cash limit (either at an aggregated level or at a more detailed level) in addition to the amount of accrual-based expense authorized; and/or (iii) allow spending agencies to move cash appropriation into accrual-based expense but not vice versa.20, Commitment-based Expenditure Limits in France. This convergence is in the direction of: an increased focus on ex ante controls over expenditure commitments rather than ex post controls only at the payment stage of the expenditure cycle; a shift from controlling only cash expenditures towards controlling the accumulation of accrued liabilities as well; greater devolution of responsibility for routine expenditure controls towards ministries and agencies and a more risk-based approach to the exercise of centralized controls; a stronger reliance on internal and external audit to ensure the integrity of financial control systems in ministries and agencies; and. Before issuing a payment order, the issuing authority will typically check that sufficient funds are available to make the payment. Capital Expenditure 7/2009 sets a maximum one month complementary period. When sequestering appropriations, ongoing commitments should be taken into account. No verification/certification system (i.e., payment orders issued without verification). To ensure these objectives are met, government expenditures typically go through seven stylized stages4 between authorization by the legislature and payment to the final beneficiary (Figure 4). It will also usefully guide technical assistance work related to modernization of government budget execution and expenditure control systems, including the design and implementation of IT-based financial management information systems. Where the two are not routinely or automatically reconciled, special surveys may be required to identify ghost workers and remove them from the payroll. Broader PFM and enforcement issues affecting budget execution and expenditure control. Pattanayak, S., and I. Fainboim, 2011, Treasury Single Account: An Essential Tool for Government Cash Management, Technical Notes and Manuals (Washington: International Monetary Fund). The ministry of finance in these countries does not carry out any form of detailed commitment or payment control. 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. 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). FSU countries. 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. Managing the change process would involve communicating effectively to all relevant stakeholders a broad understanding of why the changes are necessary and what objectives are sought to be achieved. var _paq = window._paq || []; 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. Accrual-based budgeting systems enforce limits on the incurrence of liabilities, expenses or expenditure even when no immediate cash transactions are involved. Expenditure Control: Key Features, Stages, and Actors. In addition, they may impose limits on accumulation of cash obligations, multi-year commitments, and long-term obligations (such as pensions) and contingent liabilities (such as guarantees). 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 Apportionment. In fact, excessive duplication of controls is a common disease in many countries, particularly in Francophone Africa, which not only results in ineffciency in executing expenditure but also leads to rent seeking by officials who intervene at different stages of the expenditure transaction. Budget calendar revisedand, if necessary, legal framework amendedto ensure budget approval before the start of the fiscal year. Sometimes, a consolidated check is issued to cover multiple payments by the bank to the respective beneficiaries accounts (e.g., payroll payments) as per the treasurys instructions. Percentage of reserved amount that materializes as commitment; and average time lag between reservation and commitment. The common practice was for lines of credit to be given to line ministries/agencies to spend against accounts in local banks. If accounting is on cash-basis, there is regular reporting and monitoring of overdue payables. 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. See Guidelines for Internal Control in the Public Sector at http://www.issai.org/media/13329/intosai_gov_9100_e.pdf. Approximately two-thirds of spending consists of mandatory expenditures on programs such as Social Security and Medicare. This technical note and manual (TNM) addresses the following issues: Key stages of the government expenditure chain; The roles and responsibilities of the key institutional actors in exercising those controls; Approaches to expenditure control in different PFM traditions; Diagnosing weaknesses in expenditure control systems; and. While the controls may be well specified and the roles and responsibilities of the key actors clarified in a countrys legal/regulatory framework, problems may still arise due to lack of enforcement. Commitment approval is linked to (and cancels) the respective reserved amount. Even when payment processing and expenditure controls are decentralized, a central aggregate control on cash is still required. Controls on liabilities or guarantees (contrle de liquidation): This control is applied on the incurrence of a liability or guarantee and again at the payment stage when the liability is extinguished or guarantee is paid. *The PEFA indicators are based on the new PEFA 2016 framework. 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. But, fiscal policy is also used to curtail . For example, prior to the 1990s, financial control was under the Presidency (Cte dIvoire), the Prime Ministers Office (Senegal), or was the responsibility of a separate ministry. Ensures that expenditure commitments by spending units are fully in line with the expenditure limits and the released spending authority. This TNM has benefited from review and comments of M. Cangiano, M. Fouad, R. Hughes, R. Allen, R. Boukezia, B. Chevauchez, S. Flynn, D. Gentry, T. Hansen, R. Hurtado Arcos, C. Iles, D. Last, J. Menkulasi, D. Moretti, M. Nozaki, B. Olden, M. Pessoa, J Seiwald, H. van Eden, A. Veloz, B. Wiest, and several other colleagues from both the PFM divisions of FAD. Accurate costing of policies and programs, and a comprehensive expenditure authorization framework that captures all expenditure measures. When the government uses fiscal policy to increase the amount of money available to the populace, this is called expansionary fiscal policy. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Most budget execution control operations are delegated to the line ministries. The expenditure cycle and associated controls in Francophone African countries derive largely from the French system as it existed prior to 1960s in the French provincial governments (prfectures).30 However, many Francophone African countries not only intensified the centralization of controls in the late 1990s,31 but the minister of finance also became the single and principal payment-authorizing officer (Ordonnateur principal unique).32 The responsibility for financial control is typically centralized in the ministry of finance, with its staff out-posted in the line ministries/spending agencies. 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 countries of the British Commonwealth tradition, officials in spending agencies are charged with initiating and authorizing expenditure transactions, from commitment to payment, based on apportionments/allotments/warrants issued by the ministry of finance. Overly rigid and controlled spending procedures in several Francophone African countries have resulted in the proliferation and misuse of exceptional spending procedures, e.g., the issuance by the minister of finance to the treasury (bypassing the normal chain of expenditure) of an immediate payment order subject to regularization later. 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). The main objective of the government as a purchaser is to obtain high-quality goods and services at a competitive price. The authority for expenditure is Defence Services: They account for nearly 20% of the total revenue expenditure of the Central Government in India. In any case, understanding the seven key stages of the expenditure cycle and associated control systems is also important to effectively design and implement an FMIS. 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. Commitment. In the other countries, the central banks usually handle both debt management and TSA administration on an agency basis. Special procedures are also sometimes a symptom of the inefficiency of the normal procedures to respond adequately to priority needs. Line ministries and agencies can commit and use their allocated resources whenever they want within the year. All Rights Reserved. Lack of adequate control over government expenditure remains a problem in many countries. For example in Austria, as highlighted by external audit a few years ago, there were instances of either delayed or no recording of commitments until their respective payments materialized. The role of an expenditure control system is to ensure that the level and allocation of government expenditure reflect the will of the legislature as voted for in the budget.3 Expenditure controls should also reflect sound financial management principles, ensuring that public resources are utilized efficiently, incurred obligations are cleared in a timely manner, abuse/ misappropriation of public money is prevented, and private actors compete on a level playing field for government contracts. Expenditures. Verifies the legal and administrative compliance to ensure that the expenditure operation and related documents/contracts follow the procedure, prescribed in the law and/or financial regulations. Government expenditure has ballooned over the years. While expenditure control frameworks differ greatly from country to country, it is nonetheless possible to define, in a generic sense: the key stages of the budget execution cycle; the specific control objectives at each of these stages; and. 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). Advertisement. Pension controls: The liability and associated expense for pensions and other retirement benefits should be recognized at the time the employee's services are rendered. (function() { For example, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe. The reforms in the expenditure control framework should be tailored to the specific country context and capacity, and be scaled up as the capacity improves. Minimizes the cost of financing government programs by smoothing the gap between cash inflows and outflows. 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PEFA Scores (200614) of 85 Countries for Expenditure Control Indicator, Citation: Technical Notes and Manuals 2016, 002; 10.5089/9781513574639.005.A001, Expenditure Control and Budget Credibility. In cases where the expenditure is subject to a previous ongoing contract (e.g., wages, utilities, rent, debt service) or statutory obligation (e.g., transfers to subnational governments), an estimate of obligation to pay should be made and treated as a commitment. Originally designed for exceptional circumstances, the use of this procedure expanded in several Francophone African countries to settle most of the expenditures. Different expenditure control systems bring with them their own advantages, but also their own potential weaknesses. Most countries adopt annual budgets authorizing spending for one year; however, some countries authorize multi-year limits for certain types of expenditure (e.g., autorisation dengagement for multi-year investment projects in Francesee Box 3). Following the approval of the budget/appropriation bill, spending agencies are usually asked to submit a proposed plan for apportionment/allotment. They maintain systems of internal control, and regularly report to the ministry of finance and other central agencies on their financial operations. 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. 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. The public accountant assumes personal financial responsibility for compliance with regulations and is accountable to the Court of Accounts (Cours des comptes), the supreme audit institution. Sequestering (or gel/rgulation budgtaire in Francophone tradition) is the blocking of appropriations by the ministry of finance. This deficit provides an indication of the financial health of the economy. PEFA PI-27; and value of check float (or float of electronic transfer instructions) as a percentage of total value of checks (or electronic transfer instructions) issued. No cash availability to make payments within the time horizon of apportionment. However, the complexity of the expenditure chain, the precise nature of the controls exercised at each stage, and the degree of centralization varies considerably across countries and is heavily influenced by their respective administrative traditions. Pattanayak, S., and J. Cooper, 2011, Chart of Accounts: A Critical Element of the Public Financial Management Framework, Technical Notes and Manuals (Washington: International Monetary Fund). Monetary policy. Current spending They are for the short term and include expenditure on wages and raw materials. 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). This is known as retenciones de crdito in Spain (and a similar arrangement in Portugal) and engagement budgtaire in France which precedes the engagement juridique or legal commitment stage. bank accounts (as reflected in bank statements). This objective is achieved by appropriations. This setting aside of an allotment for a future expenditure should not be confused with a legal commitment as no specific contract is signed at this stage. This should be supported by adequate monitoring at each stage of the expenditure cycle and ex post auditparticularly external audit to start withto ensure effective compliance. 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. Line ministries and agencies initiate the commitment and payment and verify the delivery of goods and services. However, overall responsibility for budget execution is assigned to the respective line minister (or the head of an independent State body) who allocates budgeted resources to the various departments/agencies under his/her authority and delegates responsibility for budget execution up to the stage of the preparation of payment orders. This requires that personnel database (where personnel information files are kept) and payroll records be linked, regularly updated, and reconciled. The main reform at this stage is the introduction of a comprehensive commitment control system, including for multi-year commitments and standing commitments (e.g., salaries, utilities, subsidies, transfers, etc.). For example, in France, autorisation dengagement authorizes commitment for an investment operation that may entail payments over a multi-year period, while crdit de paiement limits the actual payments during the budget year subject to the overall limit under the respective autorisation dengagement (see Box 3). Any perceived risks and/or uncertainties should also be adequately addressed. Government Spending: Giveth Some, Taketh Some. 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. Final Government Spending Quiz Question What is government spending? Payroll audits should also be undertaken regularly to identify weaknesses in the control system. 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. _paq.push(['setSiteId', '17']); A comprehensive commitment tracking and control framework, and an MTFF/MTBF that reflects commitments carried forward from previous years. The cash plans should be prepared in conformity with budget authorization and systematically take account of ongoing commitments. Approaches to prioritising expenditure where there are competing demands for funding. The key questions to be asked are: (i) whether all the key stages of the expenditure cycle and associated business rules and processes have been clearly defined; and (ii) whether the required controls at each stage have been clearly specified and consistently applied. 3. However, these hurdles were set at such a high level that hardly any agency cleared them. A Diagnostic Framework to Assess the Capacity of a Government's Financial Management Information System as a Budget Management Tool, Rwanda Nutrition Expenditure and Institutional Review 2020. To centralize cash management, all government cash transactions should go through a TSA system (with a set of accounts linked to a top account). When the float of unpaid checks is significant, payments should also be reported on the basis of checks encashed/paid. 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. Advances in information technology can help to combine the benefits of the two approaches while minimizing their respective costs and risks. 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