Budget Issues: Budgeting for Federal CapitalDIANE Publishing, 1997 - 119 pages Reviews how five federal organizations -- the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, the Interagency Fleet Management System and Public Buildings Service of the General Services Administration, and the U.S. Geological Survey -- plan and budget for fixed assets. Examines: how these organizations perceive the current budget process affects their capital acquisitions, and whether there are funding mechanisms, used or proposed by these organization, that might be helpful in planning and budgeting for fixed assets. Charts and tables. |
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5-year plan Accommodated by Balancing acquire capital agency's appropriations subcommittees Balancing Managerial Flexibility budget process budgetary Budgeting for Fixed budgeting for stand-alone capital acquisitions capital and operating capital assets capital budget capital needs capital obligations capital outlays capital planning capital projects character classes charges Coast Guard officials Congress Congressional Control construction Corps of Engineers disposal proceeds ensure equipment example expensive facilities FASA fiscal year 1997 fixed asset acquisitions fixed-asset acquisitions Flexibility and Congressional full cost full up-front funding goals governmentwide GPRA income incrementally funded information technology investment component lease-purchases mainframe computer million multiyear object class OMB officials operating leases organizations oversight PBS officials percent physical assets Planning and Budgeting PRIP private sector program and financing Public Buildings Service purchases replacement reprogramming retain proceeds revolving funds space stand-alone stages strategies U.S. Army U.S. Geological Survey up-front funding requirement users USGS vehicles
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Page 1 - We are sending copies of this report to the Ranking Minority Member of your Committee, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and interested congressional committees.
Page 5 - In essence, this plan is to contain the annual performance goals the agency will use to gauge its progress toward accomplishing its strategic goals and identify the performance measures the agency will use to assess its progress. Also, OMB will use individual agencies...
Page 29 - Ownership of the asset remains with the lessor during the term of the lease and is not transferred to the government at or shortly after the end of the lease period.
Page 45 - It requires each federal agency to develop, no later than by the end of fiscal year 1997, strategic plans that cover a period of at least 5 years and include the agency's mission statement; identify the agency's long-term strategic goals; and describe how the agency intends to achieve those goals through its activities and through its human, capital, information, and other resources. Under GPRA...
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Page 28 - BUDGET ISSUES: Incorporating an Investment Component in the Federal Budget (GAO/AIMD-94-40, November 9, 1993...
Page 45 - Congress and federal executives for use "in making decisions about allocating federal resources, authorizing and modifying programs, and evaluating program performance.
Page 78 - GPRA, agencies must develop, no later than by the end of fiscal year 1997, strategic plans that cover a period of at least 5 years and include the agency's mission statement; identify the agency's long-term strategic goals; and describe how the agency intends to achieve those goals through its activities and through its human, capital, information, and other resources.
Page 23 - ... make the loan to the borrower. Only the credit subsidy cost is recorded as a budgetary obligation. (For a more detailed discussion, see "Recognizing Federal Underwriting Risks" in the Budget of the United States Government. See also Direct Loan.) Direct Spending Authority (Budget Enforcement Act Term) Entitlement authority, the Food Stamp Program, and budget authority provided by law other than appropriations acts. Direct spending authority is under the control of the authorizing committees as...
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