4. Allocate resources to meet agency service demands and achieve desired outcomes
'Allocate resources to meet agency service demands and achieve desired outcomes' depicts agency level resource allocation and corresponds to step 4 in the framework overview document.
Steps of the component
- 4.1 Prepare and develop agency budget priorities (Agencies)
- 4.2 Submit budget submissions (Agencies)
- 4.3 Portfolio Ministers advocate budget requests with CBRC (Ministers/agencies and CBRC)
- 4.4 Update Forward Estimates (Agencies)
- 4.5 Prepare and finalise Budget and other documentation - e.g. MPS, BP3 contributions etc (Agencies)
- 4.6 Manage interim supply period (Agencies)
- 4.7 Address Estimates Committee questions on notice (Ministers/agencies)
- 4.8 Prepare for and attend Estimates Committee hearings (Ministers/agencies)
- 4.9 Undertake agencies' internal budget allocation processes (Agencies)
Overview of the component
This diagram shows processes that are undertaken within agencies that relate to resource allocation, and the linkages between this part of the framework and other parts, such as agency planning and performance management processes, and whole-of-Government resource allocation processes.
The diagram only includes elements that are common to all agencies: there may be additional processes that individual agencies opt to include that are not shown here.
Related to the component
- 2. Set agency service delivery objectives and strategies
- 3.5 Brief CBRC on agency Budget submissions (DPC and Treasury)
- 3.6 Make resource allocation decisions and advise outcomes (CBRC)
- 3.7 Update whole-of-Government Forward Estimates (Treasury)
- 3.8 Prepare and finalise annual State Budget papers (Treasury)
- 3.11 Conduct Estimates Committee Hearings (Parliament)
- 3.12 Consider the Appropriation Bills (including supply for following year) (Parliament)
- 6. Manage resources to deliver agency services (i.e. outputs)
Refer to the overview of the financial management framework to see all the components of framework and how they relate to each other.
Last reviewed 30 July 2009

