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Strategic planning and the budget process: a survey of municipal government.

Government Finance Review

| October 01, 2003 | Rivenbark, William C. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Government Finance Officers Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Strategic planning is a structured and coordinated approach for developing long-term organizational goals and for developing strategies to accomplish them. It is typically used to facilitate communication, to accommodate divergent interests, and to foster decision making through leadership and consensus building. (1) In municipal government, one of the primary purposes of strategic planning is to set the stage for the annual budget process, providing a roadmap for annual resource allocation decisions. (2)

The Government Finance Officers Association promotes strategic planning by promulgating recommended practices on budgeting and financial management and by ...

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