A Better EU Budget

In the presentation, the forthcoming budget is compared with the preceding budget.

Better than you ever expected.

This would be preferable to actuarial projection techniques and would simplify the review of the calculations

It was time seriously to consider the possibility of a more realistic budget than the one approved in 2001.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

B. Budget calculations Consultations with ACABQ appear to indicate that it recommends the following two major modifications of the methodology for budget calculations a change in the calculation of revised budgets and a change in the comparison between the forthcoming and the preceding budget.

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

When comparing the forthcoming budget with the final budget of the preceding period, the new budget estimates would de facto be compared with the final expenditure estimates.

The budget reflects an increase of 6.5 per cent over the budget for 1998.

As a result, estimates for current periods tend to be more precise than projections made for future budget periods.

Change budget year

The comparison provides details on growth rates for the forthcoming budget.

The budget for the courts for 2004 2005 is marginally lower than the previous budget.

It's better than that.

Percentage of budget allocated to education

3. Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process and thereby facilitate the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

Overall, the funds monitoring tool would be utilized to more accurately formulate budgets and increase budget implementation rates, bringing expenditures more in line with budgets.

Better than that, Mark. Much better than that.

Yet, that's the one step computers can do better than any human after years of practice.

Better than that.

More appropriate indicators may be the cost as a percentage of office budget.

Monthly Budgeted vs. Actual

Budgeted vs. Actual This Year

Yearly Budgeted vs. Actual

Share of consolidated State

A number of innovations have been introduced in the budget documentation, including the presentation of a programme support cost budget, utilization of costed work plans for budget preparation, a linkage between activities and mandates, as well as a comparison between the budget and the outline.

The Advisory Committee believes this is a good budget practice and, in the future, standard costs in more budget items should be tempered with actual performance results.

3. Also reaffirms that the outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, promote a greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process and thereby facilitate the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget

Do we need a bigger budget?

Modification of the methods of financing educational and health promotion activities towards better utilization of extrabudgetary resources.

Have you got your figures ready?

Member States might, however, compare the benefit accruing from a reduced assessment to the dividend accruing from a downsized budget as a result of a decline in peacekeeping budgets.

It is true that there are problems with the scales of assessments for both the regular and the peacekeeping budgets.

Yearly Budgeted vs Actual Graph

(on the scale of assessment and the programme budget)

To compensate for the budgetary effect of the increase in mandatory reviews compared to the current biennium, the secretariat intends to streamline and better coordinate various review activities under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol.

For 1996, the national health budget is estimated at 9.2 billion pesos while the local government budget for health is estimated at about 6 billion pesos.

A comparison between the current and proposed budget concepts is shown in table 7, using the budget for the biennium 1996 1997 as a model.

Percentage of the budget earmarked for education

Mr. Honningstad (Norway) noted with satisfaction that the new presentation of the programme budget reflected, more effectively than previously, the Organization's priorities as announced in the Millennium Declaration and in the communiqués issued by major conferences.

The approved budget for the biennium 2004 represented a nominal increase of 5 per cent from the previous budget.