Розвиток державного фінансового аудиту місцевих бюджетів
Principles of the Budget Process and Financial Regulation in EU Legislation

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to analyze the practice of normative regulation of the target orientation of the state financial audit of local budgets as a type of state financial control, its impact on the results of its implementation, and to develop the areas for improvement. The analysis of the regulatory document regulating the state financial audit of local budgets performed by the State Audit Service made it possible to single out the following trends in changing its purpose and tasks: expansion of the object from "implementation of local budgets" to the object "local budgets" as a whole, i.e. to the entire process of formation and execution of local budgets; coordination of tasks and goals. It is substantiated that the lack of binding of individual objects to the target criteria does not allow clearly defining the target orientation and procedures within the framework of the state financial audit. The need to transform the purpose and tasks of the state financial audit by supplementing them with target criteria for all audit objects is proven. It was determined that the components of the principle of sound financial management and performance should be used as target criteria: efficiency, economy, reasonableness, legality, reliability, effectiveness. The need to introduce a state financial audit of the planning and forecasting processes of local budgets as part of a preliminary assessment, which will correspond to international practice, is substantiated. The value of post-audit monitoring (follow-up) in ensuring the effectiveness of the process of state financial audit of local budgets has been established. The need to improve the approach to the correct formulation of recommendations, based on the powers and capabilities of local self-government bodies, using the principle of Smart-approach, as well as ensuring the principle of transparency and publicity when working on the results of reports on the state financial audit of local budgets, has been proved. Prospects for further research are the deepening of methodological approaches to the formation of recommendations based on the results of the state financial audit of local budgets both within the framework of preliminary assessments (planning and forecasting) and within the framework of retrospective assessment (implementation of local budgets).

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