budget estimate

Budgetary Estimates

budget and financial analyst

Northern Affairs (Approval of Estimates and Levy of Taxes 1994) By-Law No. 4/94

budget estimate | budget forecast

budget policy [ annuality of the budget | budgetary discipline | budgetary reform | yearly nature of the budget | Public budget(STW) ]

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For the purpose of the 30 days, the Business of Supply was defined as consisting of “main estimates; interim supply; and supplementary or additional estimates excepting supplementary or additional estimates introduced after the main estimates have been approved, and excepting always the final supplementary or additional estimates” (Journals, June 8, 1965, p. 210).

If I could try to make it more meaningful for you to understand the basic components, we'd be looking at accrual accounting and budgeting concepts, at the estimates and basically how we could have a better understanding of what the estimates are all about and sharing that, then the same thing with the public accounts and making a linkage between the budget, the estimates, and the public accounts, then looking at the impacts of full accrual accounting on the public accounts—I think a lot of individuals are not fully aware of the implications of that kind of linkage—the impacts of full accrual accounting at the departmental level, and then trying to bring it home in terms of the impacts of accrual budgeting on the estimates and ...[+++]appropriations.

In other words, don't wait until the estimates are on the table; work on what you're going to want to see in those estimates, starting the day after the estimates are tabled for the previous year.

4. National medium-term fiscal plans and draft budgets referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be based on independent macroeconomic forecasts, and shall indicate whether the budgetary forecasts have been produced or endorsed by an independent body.