LONG-RANGE PLANNING THROUGH PROGRAM BUDGETING

Abstract

Program Budgeting--or the Planning-Programming-Budgeting Systems abbreviated as PPB--focuses on the basic function of management, which is to use the organization's available resources in the way that will be most effective in meeting its goals. Basically, the PPB system contributes to the planning process in two ways. First, it establishes and makes explicit the relationships, or linkages, among the organization's objectives, its programs and activities, the resource implications of those activities, and their financial expression in a budget. In so doing, it provides much of the information needed for rational planning in an easily usable form. Second, PPB contributes directly to management decision making by providing analyses of the consequences, in terms of estimated costs and expected benefits, of possible program decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0669459

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People

  • David Novick

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Corporations
  • Costs
  • Data Processing
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Local Governments
  • National Governments
  • Planning Programming Budgeting
  • Production Control
  • Systems Analysis
  • Training
  • Transportation

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design