Along the way, the budget is referred to committee, receives public hearings, gets voted out of committee and hits the floor ...

Congress has set aside time this summer to work on budget process reform. This is not a moment too soon. Created in 1974, the current budget process has been subjected to over 30 years of abuse from ...

Advocates working to transition the city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works away from fossil fuels and toward renewables say the utility is trying to make its budgetary process less transparent. The issue ...

Members of the Joint Committee for Budget and Appropriations Reform are considering changing the federal budget process to a biennial cycle, pursuing a budget resolution every two years with annual ...

Today marks the centennial of the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, a law requiring, among other things, the president to annually present Congress with a budget proposal for government. While ...

As incoming president of the Tufts Debate Society, I recently had the displeasure of going through the budgetary approval process for the 2025–26 academic year. To say that this process was predatory ...

Explore budgeting methods, like zero-, activity-, & priority-based, incremental, envelope system, and the 50/30/20 rule.

Universally, the common accounting tool that governments, companies, organizations, and other institutions use for planning and controlling what they must do to satisfy the people and customers and ...

In the broadest sense, a budget is an allocation of money for some purpose. The word once used to mean “pouch” or “purse”; a budget therefore is “what’s in the pouch.” Budgeting as an activity ranges ...

The new president and Congress need a working budget process to help them put resources behind their policies and govern the nation effectively. Budgeting, one of the core processes of government, is ...

The town council, by a 5 to 4 vote, has adopted a budget that includes an increase from $125,000 to $275,000 in a contingency fund that traditionally is set aside for unforeseen or emergency ...