It's common knowledge among budget experts that the budget process is "broken." Anyone who regularly reads this column knows about debt limits, government shutdowns, and out-of-control spending and ...

Value stream map vs. process map, which is better for you? As with many tools and methods in Six Sigma, there isn’t a ...

The Colorado state budgeting process may be long and complicated, but for good reason: It dictates how much of the billions of dollars go to things like education, health care, human services, ...

As the director of finance and compliance at OIP, Snezana gets to identify and solve problems by looking at the big picture. The budgeting time of year is no fun for anyone — both the people forced to ...

Flowchart vs. process map, what do you choose to use? When it comes to mapping out a project, you’ve got several choices on how to visualize them. If you’ve had trouble deciding on a format for your ...

Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states that “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of an appropriation made by Law.”1 These 17 words grant Congress its power of ...

The votes have been tallied in all the City Council districts taking part in the City’s participatory budgeting process — where citizens get to develop and then vote on projects in their neighborhoods ...

It's not uncommon for health systems to have an annual budgeting cycle that requires six months of work and thousands of hours from leadership. It's a monumental undertaking -- and yet the budget is ...

Budget process evolution and maturity in healthcare organizations traditionally has lagged other industries, where leading-edge and data-driven forecasting approaches are currently evolving. Most ...

To determine needed functional spending, fund strategic goals, plan for contingencies and more, developing a carefully defined and researched annual budget is critical for any company. However, ...