THE SYSTEMS FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL IN THE BULGARIAN MUNICIPALITIES - STATE AND PROSPECTS

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Keywords
financial management and control systems, internal control, public administration

Summary
The aim of this paper is to present the results of an empirical study on the practice of Bulgarian municipalities in the implementation of the financial management and control systems (FMCS) and provide guidelines for future development and improvement of these systems.

The tasks that have been performed in order to achieve the objectives are the following:

1. Survey and analysis of the operation and condition of the FMCS in the municipalities in Bulgaria.

2. Evaluation and summary of the results of the empirical study.

3. Presentation of some possibilities for automating the processes through software applications.

4. Presentation of the new moments in the development of the internal control and the FMCS in Bulgaria.

The object of the study is the FMCS in the Bulgarian municipalities and their role in achieving the objectives of the municipal administrations. The subject of research is the existing practice of implementation of the FMCS in the municipalities and their role in achieving the strategic and operational objectives of administrations. The main research thesis is that municipal administrations in Bulgaria have untapped potential for improving the state of FMCS, which will significantly improve the effectiveness, efficiency and relevance of the public sector processes. The results of the study can serve as a starting point for improving the public sector systems.

The methods that have been used to study the practice of applying the FMCS and the documents defining the legal and methodological framework are the following: content analysis of documents, comparative analysis, deduction and induction, various methods of statistical analysis.

JEL: O21, P21, R58
Pages: 32
Price: 3 Points

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