The aim is to analyze the sports funding from public funds in the Pardubice region. Decide whether this support is sufficient and justified. The analysis focuses in more detail on the various grant programs and the method of evaluating the applications. Funds flowing into the sport in the 2007-2016 are demonstrating graphically and over these years are declining. Partial analysis also shows the success of grant applicants. The number of unsupported applications exceeds the number of supported applications. Based on the analysis it shows that support is justified but insufficient. Support is unsystematic and unstable and coordination between policies in sport, at the state, country and municipal level is missing.

M. Ed. (Educational Management) / Accountability and transparency in financial management is the cornerstone to all democratic government policies. All spheres of government should encourage participative collaboration and involvement of all stakeholders. Schools as organs of state are not immune to this call. The aim of this research was to investigate the level of accountability and transparency in school financial management with the ultimate aim of encouraging efficacy in financial school management. Accountability and transparency must be approached with resiliency. The findings are clear indications of what might be happening in schools. It is our responsibilities as educationist to reverse and normalise the scenario. It was a carefully planned policy of the previous government to alienate and discourage African parents from playing a significant role in education. As a result the role of stakeholders in education diminished. Educational managers must acknowledge the fact that it will be an awesome struggle to encourage all stakeholders to playa meaningful role in the education ofourchildren. This task requires managers who must be change agents themselves. For managers to achieve this task they must first have a change of heart, change of mindset and strong will power. These leaders must have courage and determination. This task requires managers who are not afraid offailure. There is evidence of internal wrangling in schools. This wrangling sometimes prevents schools from its core function, which is effective teaching and learning...

M.P.H., Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011

Does partisanship affect the local budget process? This study examines the effects of partisanship on the local budget process in two cities in Florida, Cocoa and Rockledge. According to the literature, the effects of partisanship are present at the national level, while at the state level, these effects diminish due to legal requirements for balanced budgets and/or factors related to the state of the economy. This study reveals that evidently, partisanship effects diminish even further at the local level. Based on surveys administered to council members and staff, this study attempts to examine the conduct of the local budget process, the relationship between partisanship and budgetary priorities, and the influence on the budget process by citizens and interest groups. Further, budget documents from 1988 to 2010 are analyzed to examine the effects of partisanship using population, unemployment, and crime as controls. Survey findings suggest that budget priorities are very similar for Republicans and Democrats at the local level; in addition, after reviewing three budget items, community development, police, fire, and also millage rates, partisan effects are found to be minimal. Overall, however, it appears that the municipal budget process in Cocoa and Rockledge is not impacted by partisanship.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH / Includes bibliographies. / by Joan K. Martin. / Ph.D.

The main aim of the thesis work is a description of internal budgeting. The work is divided among eight basic questions concerned with company budgets compared with my observations from the firm. Theoretical part came out from a basic managerial accounting literature. Internal information, methods and tabs from branch of Japanese firm which act her business in a local Czech market.

The purpose of this study was to determine the bases and processes utilized for internal resource allocation in a postsecondary institution. An empirical knowledge of the financial behavior and decision-making process in an institution may guide budget planners and administrators to develop a more operationally realistic approach to budget allocation issues. Two major and opposing budgetary decision-making models--the politically and objectively rational--were adopted. Each model provided a set of contrasting concepts constituting the conceptual framework used in the study. The embedded concepts in the models were paired in a format that can be viewed as a "counter conceptual dichotomy." An exploratory and semistructured questionnaire was developed as the primary data source. The questionnaire was used to examine and determine the prevalence and range of each concept in the working process of resource allocation. A two-year public institution was selected for an in-depth, case-study analysis. A stratified random sample of those individuals managing a separate budget was obtained. Subjects ranged from department heads to the president. Interviews were conducted, and the perceptions reflecting the bases for budgetary allocations were recorded, rated, and tabulated using means, medians, modes, ranges, standard deviations, and variances. The data were analyzed and synthesized. The incremental budgeting method inherent in the politically rational budgeting model strongly prevailed in the allocation of resources at the College. The political budgeting approach proved to be viable because of historical practices, particular organizational structures, and state mandated budgetary formulas. Most of the underlying concepts of the political budgeting model were reported to be of great significance, particularly by higher level administrators who contended that the model was a necessity in the budget process. Department heads' acceptance of the model and the embedded concepts was somewhat reserved, uncertain, or confused. Their contrasting apolitical budgetary tendencies, at times, suggested qualities of the "limited-rationality" decision-making model. Nevertheless, the budgetary bases and processes examined were largely in accord with the "politically rational" budgeting model. The slight variations existing in the College budgetary process were not doubt due to its organizational peculiarities, common in higher education institutions.

This study was carried out with the purpose of discovering what factors are predictive of money management behavior; Plan, Implement, and Evaluative Feedback. The data used in this study was subset data collected during 1988, under the NC-167 project entitled "Family Resource Utilization as a Factor in Determining Economic Well Being of Rural Families". Three hundred and seven financial managers in families from Arizona completed and returned the questionnaire used in this study. It was found that (1) the power money attitude, the inadequacy money attitude, and gender were predictor variables of plan behavior; (2) the inadequacy money attitude and age were predictor variables of evaluative feedback.

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Introdução: o consumo de medicamentos cresce a cada ano no mundo inteiro e os gastos com estes produtos comprometem grande parte do orçamento doméstico das famílias brasileiras. Sabe-se que as mulheres consomem mais medicamentos que os homens e quando estão grávidas esta prática também é bastante comum, com prevalências variadas, porém expressivas. Objetivos: descrever e comparar a aquisição de produtos farmacêuticos realizada por gestantes, não-gestantes, lactantes e homens, avaliando qual o impacto da gestação na aquisição de medicamentos. Métodos: estudo transversal de base populacional, realizado a partir dos dados disponíveis na Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF) 2002-2003/ IBGE. A pesquisa foi realizada entre julho de 2002 e junho de 2003 e o desenho da amostra foi estruturado para propiciar a publicação de resultados para todo o Brasil. Os dados foram obtidos através de aplicação de questionários específicos sob a forma de entrevista. As informações referentes aos moradores e às despesas individuais com produtos de saúde foram analisadas no programa SPSS 13.0. Resultados: 34,8% da população pesquisada adquiriu algum produto farmacêutico nos 30 dias anteriores à entrevista. As lactantes foram as que mais adquiriram produtos farmacêuticos com 58,4%, seguidas por 53,2% das gestantes, enquanto 29,7% dos homens e 39% das mulheres adquiriram algum produto. As gestantes adquiriram aproximadamente cinco vezes mais vitaminas e antianêmicos do que as outras mulheres. As mulheres nãogestantes gastaram mais dinheiro com medicamentos em todas as idades, já entre 15 e 35 anos as lactantes o fizeram. As gestantes, por sua vez, tiveram um gasto médio proporcional à renda líquida mensal cerca de 45% maior do que as não-gestantes entre 15 e 35 anos.Analisando o gasto médio proporcional à renda líquida mensal estratificado por quintis de renda entre 15 e 35 anos, foi observado que no primeiro quintil, onde se encontram os mais pobres, as gestantes gastaram 40% a mais que as não-gestantes com produtos farmacêuticos, enquanto no quintil 5, onde se encontram os mais ricos, as gestantes gastaram 25% menos que as não-gestantes com a aquisição destes produtos. Conclusão: a gestação leva a mudanças no perfil de aquisição de medicamentos e quanto menor a renda das pessoas, maior o impacto da gestação na aquisição de medicamentos e, por conseqüência, maior o impacto no orçamento e na qualidade de vida das gestantes. / Introduction: medicine’s consumption grows in the whole world every year and the expenses with these products compromise a big amount of the Brazilian families’ budget. It is known that women consume more medicines than men and when are pregnant this practice is also very common and its prevalence may vary but is certainly expressive. Objectives: to describe and compare the purchase of pharmaceutical products by pregnant, non pregnant, breastfeeding women and men, evaluating the impact of pregnancy on medicines’ purchase. Methods: population based study with data available from the Survey on Household Budgets (POF). The research took place between july 2002 and june 2003 and the sample design allows results’ publication for the whole country. The data was obtained by interview with the families and was analyzed in the SPSS 13.0 program. Results: during the research period 0,8% of the population was pregnant, the majority had white skin and more than 30% had few years of study. 34,8% of the population (61.107.726) had purchased at least one medicine on the 30 days before interview. The breastfeeding women purchased more medicines (58,4%), followed by 53,2% of pregnant women, while 29,7% of the men and 39% of non pregnant women purchased at least one medicine. Pregnant women purchased about five times more vitamins and antianemics than non pregnant women. Women expend more money with medicines in all ages, but between 15 and 35 years old the brestfeeding did it. The pregnants had an income’s proportion expense about 45% bigger than women between 15 and 35. Analyzing the average expense and the income’s proportion expense by income level between 15 and 35 years old, we notice that in the first and poorest level pregnant women expend 40% more than non-pregnant women with the purchase of medicines, as while as in the last and richest income level pregnant women expend about 25% less than non-pregnant women with these products. Conclusion: pregnancy leads to changes in the medicines’ purchase profile, and the smallest is the income, the higher is the impact of pregnancy in the purchase of medicines and, by the way, higher is the impact on these pregnant`s budgets and life quality.