Examples of using Budget format in English and their translations into Arabic
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While the presentation of a consolidated and integrated budget format was welcomed, it was also noted that it should
The United Nations budget format has also been followed, under which the proposed budget estimates for the biennium 1998-1999 are compared with the revised approved appropriations for the biennium 1996-1997 and with the actual expenditures for the biennium 1994-1995.
This budget format, however, had its limitations, one of which was the inability to know the cost of programmes of activity; it was also difficult to know what the programmes were.
Following the new United Nations budget format, the proposed budget estimates for the biennium 1996-1997 are compared with the revised approved appropriations for the biennium 1994-1995 and with the actual expenditures for the biennium 1992-1993.
The ACABQ recommendation to bring the two sets of costs under one single category would simplify the budget format and the secretariat plans to implement it in consultation with the United Nations Office at Nairobi(UNON), which maintains the accounts of the Centre.
In preparing the proposed 1994-1995 budget, the Deputy Executive Director, Operations, said that UNICEF had implemented the decisions of the Executive Board that had been based on the work of the Budget Format Reference Group.
Also recalling paragraph 8 of its decision 18/42 by which it authorized, on an interim basis, the redefined management and administrative support costs budget format for 1996-1997, subject to review, any needed adjustment and final approval by the Council at its nineteenth session.
The report of the Secretary-General on results-based budgeting(A/53/500 and Add.1) sought to meet the above-mentioned request by providing a clarification of the concept and the ways in which results-based budgeting could address current weaknesses in the budgetary process, as well as a prototype for one of the budget sections in results-based budget format.
They voiced several areas for consideration, inter alia: a budget format that allowed for comparison with previous budgets; a change in the financial statement format to reflect the new budget classifications; the role of management results in the integrated budget; and a 2014 integrated budget that linked to the development outcomes of the next strategic plans of the respective organizations.
Requests the Executive Director, given the need to achieve greater transparency and comprehensibility in the budget format of the Programme, to take steps to revise the present format of the budgets in such a manner that a clear distinction is maintained between programme delivery and administrative overheads, as follows.
The Advisory Committee recommended, however, that some adjustments relating to the budget format and process should be introduced and that the revised draft financial rules should then be submitted to it before being promulgated. The Commission, in its resolution 6(XL), expressed support for the revised draft financial rules, adding that the recommendations set out in the report of the Advisory Committee should be taken into account.
That document was general in nature, did not cover all budget sections and did not follow the budget format, and the information it contained could be more specific, so that, in common with the reports on the proposed programme budget(A/C.5/50/57 and Add.1) and the programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997(A/C.5/51/57), it raised more questions than it answered.
The main reason for the delay was, however, the lack of meaningful consideration by some delegations of the Advisory Committee ' s recommendations on the matter, particularly the creation of a separate account for the funding of special political missions. A separate account aligned with the peacekeeping budget cycle would benefit the missions, as the current biennial programme budget format was ill-suited to missions that could be established or expanded at any time.
Budget formats and presentations vary widely.
The Committee was not provided with convincing reasons for the deviation from the results-based budgeting format.
The Advisory Committee notes that the Mission made efforts to improve the presentation of its budget documents in the results-based budgeting format.
The Committee trusted that the next budget submission for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs would better reflect the results-based budgeting format.
The Committee was assured by the representatives of the Mission that the next performance report would be presented in full compliance with the results-based budgeting format.
There had been some progress in harmonization with regard to the presentation of budget formats among the funds and programmes.
The Division will also continue to streamline and standardize budgeting techniques and procedures and to improve budget formats.