Blueprint for Improvement

Provide leadership to promote the efficient management of government resources and assets.

• Improve accountability by ensuring that management control is a day-to-day process.
• Create an environment that demands quality financial management at all levels, provides incentives, eliminates impediments and encourages responsible risk taking.
• Build a partnership to ensure the functioning together of information resource management, program management and financial management, including budgeting.
• Attract, retain and develop highly qualified financial professionals who are valued members of the management team.

Provide quality financial services to customers based on their needs.

• Change the view of financial management from solely control to service.
• Enhance customer focus through strong partnerships.
• Commit to achieving high standards of customer financial services through continuous improvement.
• Help customers restructure their work processes in order to achieve more efficiently their service objectives.

Provide high-quality financial information on federal government operations that fully supports financial and performance reporting.

• Establish standards and definitions.
• Create a system for integrating performance measures, cost information and
  financial reporting.
• Establish integrated government financial management systems that minimize data entry and human intervention.
• Provide cost-effective reporting, analysis and advice that are interactive, timely, reliable, user-friendly and fully satisfy user needs.

Enhance the governmentwide framework that provides sound financial policies and services and facilitates effective communication.

• Improve the integration between the budget and management functions within the federal government.
• Review and improve the functions and coordination among central agencies and between central agencies and program agencies.
• Improve and expand collaboration, cross-servicing and user-friendly outreach within and among government organizations.
• Strengthen the partnership between the executive branch and Congress to improve financial management.

Enhance-continually-financial manage ment use of modern technology and business practices.

• Benchmark with ourselves and other high-performance organizations.
• Share best practices among agencies and with the public and private sectors.