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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The modern federal budget process began a century ago with the enactment of the Budget and Accounting Act (BAA), which requires the executive branch to submit a consolidated budget plan to Congress ...

The UMass Board of Trustees votes on the budget every spring. The operating budget for each of the system campuses, including UMass Lowell, is delineated individually in the University Operating ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...