Putting It Simply: An Explanatory Guide to Financial Management Reform

Table of contents

• ​Chapter One: What's the Point?
  • This chapter examines the purposes and benefits of Financial Management Reform, and takes a brief look at the background
• Chapter Two: Calling the Tune
  • Accountability is the principle at the heart of the reform. This chapter discusses how it works.
• Chapter Three: Dividing the Pie
  • This chapter examines appropriation: the process through which the Government considers its priorities, examines its resource requirements and allocates money to each purpose.
• Chapter Four: Money Talk
  • The way the Government handles money has changed. This chapter examines how and why.
• Chapter Five: Time, Tide and the Budget Cycle
  • This chapter describes the new budget cycle.
• Chapter Six: Show and Tell
  • And this, the new requirements for reporting
• Chapter Seven: Conclusion
• Appendix: The Legislative Muscle
  • The appendix contains a brief overview of the Public Finance Act 1989, the Act of Parliament that gives a legal framework to the reform.
• Further Reading:
  • A list of books and publications which examine aspects of financial management reform