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094493 1 (1968-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacujq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I h 11111 11 l 111 111111111 11 I N11 094493 Address by the Comptroller General of the United Stab, Elmer B. Staats, at the Institute for Budget Management Training of the National Association of State Budget Officers, 0.945q Lexington, Kentucky, July 10, 1968 BUDGET REFORM AND OVERALL EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT About a year ago I appeared before this Institute and discussed some of the recent developments in program planning and appraisal in the Federal Government. Since that time the well publicized study of the President's Commission on Budget Concepts has been completed. I V was privileged to serve as one of the 16 members who constituted the Commission. Undoubtedly, the recommendations made by the Commission in its October 1967 report to the President will start in motion changes in governmental budgetary and accounting concepts and management practices which will have considerable impact over a period of years. MILESTONES ALONG THE BUDGET REFORM TRAIL During the approximate first 150 years followinq the nation's founding, financial control procedures in the Federal Government were simple fund procedures because only very limited expenditures were required. As the nation grew, budget and revenue problems increased in number and complexity, especially in time of war. Although World War I called forth heavy Federal expenditures, in terms of standards of that day, the financial control problems of the government were still small as late as 1930. At that time, the Federal debt was about $16 billion and annual Federal expenditures about $3 billion.

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