The experience of performance based budgeting from the perspective of practitioners in state universities

With the changing economic conditions, Performance-based Budgeting System has been implemented in many countries around the world. This system is being implemented in Turkey since 2006. Performance-based Budgeting System aims to use of resources effective, efficient and economic through strategic plan, performance program, and annual report. This study examines the implementation of the system, which has been in force for over a decade, in state universities. In the state universities within the scope of the Public Financial Management and Control Law, which came into force on 01.01.2006, Budget Departments affiliated to the Ministry of Finance were closed and Strategy Development Departments were established within the state universities. In this study, the perspectives of the personnel involved in Performance-based Budgeting Process in Strategy Development Departments to this system were examined, problems were identified and solution suggestions were made.