Budget Process delves into some of the issues surrounding the way in which budgets are turned into appropriations, such as biennial budgeting and the line item veto. Under Budget Agencies we re listing organizational web pages for those agencies, like GAO and OMB, where you might want to go searching for people or material. Promoting communication and exchange of ideas and information would be promoted by knowing names, assignments, and e-mail addresses. There are important Associations to which many budget professionals belong, whose publications are frequently researched or who offer training and networking opportunities. There are also many on FinanceNet that may be of value to you.
Tools are a variation on resources.
Tools are how to manuals, sometimes with software, templates, and examples, focused on some particular element or technique in budgeting. It s a judgment call as to what s a tool and what s a resource, with more general guides falling under Resources and the more focused under Tools. Managing for Results encompasses the efforts to implement the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and more. While strictly speaking it s not a budget initiative, it does have many implications for budgeting. The Results Act does call for some pilot efforts in performance budgeting, although the designation of these has been postponed for a year.