Performance Management System Linking resources to results through performance measurement
	Human Capital Management Designing workforce assessments and human capital plans to enhance employee accountability and drive recruitment success
	Acquisition & Sourcing Managing public-private competitions for commercial activities to enhance cost efficiencies and program performance
	Citizen-Centered e-Government Architecting, managing, and budgeting for one-stop, customer-oriented information technology initiatives
	Improved Financial Management Calculating and allocating program costs, accelerated reporting of financial information, and reducing payment errors
	Strategic Communications Developing and implementing strategic communications plans that directly contribute in measurable ways to the organizational mission and goals.

8 Ways the Institute Can Help Meet the New Performance Mandates in Government Financial Management

The Performance Institute’s expert advisors provide a variety of budgeting and financial management support services available to government agencies. Using the latest financial management methodologies, the Institute works directly with agencies on a single budget or on a complete agency-wide financial strategy.

1. Assessing and Improving Internal Controls

The Institute has built a national reputation for assessing and improving internal controls in government to reflect the latest standards of integrity and managerial utility. The Institute can review your agency’s internal controls, identify weaknesses, devise corrective action plans, assist in the training of staff and establishment of processes and ultimately assist in the reporting on progress.

2. Performance Measurement Development

At the heart of performance budgeting is the challenge of devising timely, accurate, relevant and useful performance information on individual agency programs. Through a mix of training and facilitation, the Institute will help define program-level and agency-wide performance measures that meet the latest OMB and decision-maker criteria.

3. Full Cost Accounting

Government agencies are increasingly using Activity-Based Costing as one financial accounting method of linking resources to activities and processes. The Institute’s Logic Model approach is enhanced to include work processes to which specific activities are aligned which results in both performance and costs of a program in a formal budget justification.

4. Integrated Financial-Performance Management Systems

This need not be a complicated process. By keeping measures to the “vital few” and harnessing any existing and new agency IT systems, the Institute has created fully integrated budget, financial and performance management systems that allow for strategic management within government.

5. Performance Data Quality Improvement

Performance information is only as strong as it is reliable and accurate. The Institute uses a maturity model to assess agency performance information that sets “reasonable accuracy” standards for performance information—an approach that wins rave reviews from managers and auditors alike.

6. Individual Program Evaluations

Periodically, agencies will be under pressure to evaluate the effectiveness of an individual program. The Institute can conduct in-depth program evaluations, resulting in performance assessments, suggestions for reforms and improved performance measurements.

7. Budget Justification Development

The Institute’s ability to bridge political-career and executive-legislative mindsets is a main element of its success in creating strong budget justifications. The Institute can provide training, facilitation or reviews and comments on budgets. It can also “model” alternative budget structures and ways of presenting and justifying budget requests based on feedback of appropriators, stakeholders and other budget reviewers.

8. Performance and Accountability Reporting

The Institute can assist in the development of a transparent and informative Performance and Accountability Report that “tells the story” of your agency’s financial and program performance results. The Institute’s approaches to PAR reporting are grounded in the latest CEAR standards from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA).

The Institute has defined and refined a proven methodology for measuring government performance: The Logic Model. This prospectus (in PDF format) provides an overview of how the Logic Model works and how it can benefit your agency’s efforts to define, plan for, manage and measure program performance.

The Institute has defined and refined a proven methodology for measuring government performance: The Logic Model. This prospectus (in PDF format) provides an overview of how the Logic Model works and how it can benefit your agency’s efforts to define, plan for, manage and measure program performance.