Strategy of Small Municipalities' Income Management Promotion by Emphasizing Budgeting Case Study Shahdieh Municipality

Subject Areas : Urban Management Studies

میرنجف موسوی ¹ (مسئول مکاتبات)
رحیم سرور ² (ندارد)
علی باقری کشکولی ³ (ندارد)

Received: 2011-05-10 Accepted : 2011-07-24 Published : 2011-03-21

Keywords: Budgeting - Strategy - Income ,

Abstract :

Introduction: Municipalities as one of the most active urban institutions are responsible for widespread functions and services, so that all their financial activities, such as income and costs and their multiple programs and tasks is done in budget framework laws. So budgeting technique has got a very important and vital role in achieving the goals of municipalities. The main goal of this paper is presenting the operational budget strategies to enhance revenue management of Shahdieh Municipality that this goal, has been done by studying the procedures and methods of budgeting of Shahdieh. Method: our method is "descriptive analysis". For statistical data analysis we have used of t-test, Wilcoxon test and the Friedman statistics. Results: revenues from general tax of the municipality of Shahdieh from 49.7 percent in 1380 have been decreased to 29.4 percent in 1387. The increasing costs during the current municipal revenues over 1381- 87 with year separation respectively equivalents 24.3 percent, 26.2 percent, 29.8 percent, 28.1 percent, 16.9 percent and 29 percent has continued in distance between 1386- 87. Conclusion: The results show that the budgeting of municipality of Shahdieh as an important indicator to the performance planning and evaluation capabilities has not been able to help to the urban management. Indeed, division and classification of costs in the current municipality is not a suitable and reliable basis for decision making, planning and control of function. So one of the main reasons for the weakness in budgeting system of municipality of Shahdieh is lack of specialist staffing and experts in budgeting.