EFFICIENCY OF BUDGET ESTIMATION PLANNING ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WESTERN INTERREGIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE

Abstract

Introduction. Each budgetary institution, to ensure its activities, must draw up an individual budget and allocation plan for each implemented budget program. It is necessary to analyze the budget, which will assess the effectiveness of the use of allocated institutions and resources and monitor the rational use of public funds. A timely and correct assessment of the effectiveness of budget planning will identify not only the situation but also the reasons that hinder the successful development of the budget institution. Improving the effective operation of budgetary institutions further depends on the validity, timeliness, and appropriateness of the decisions taken, which are based on analytical data of the budget, weaknesses and strengths, opportunities, and threats. The article aims to develop a recommendation to improve the system of effective budget planning in budgetary institutions based on one of the matrix methods of strategic analysis, the methodology of which is based on an approach that allows studying the external and internal environment of the budgetary institution. Results. The paper specifies the definition of the features of budget planning based on theoretical concepts presented in the studies of leading domestic scientists and practitioners; SWOT analysis analyzed the activities of the budget institution on the example of the Western Interregional Office of the Ministry of Justice, resulting in the advantage of opportunities over threats, as well as the advantage of strengths over weaknesses provided the quality of services provided by our budget institution; concluded that with the right choice of management position, under the current conditions and trends, the presented budget structure has the opportunity to expand its share and segment of consumers of administrative services, which it focuses on; suggested ways to increase the efficiency of budget planning of the budgetary institution. Conclusions. The use of SWOT analysis as a method of identifying internal strengths and weaknesses, identifying external opportunities and threats, which indicates how best to use their strengths and reduce internal weaknesses, make the best use of external opportunities by eliminating threats, allows effective budgeting. . The proposed method of strategic analysis has identified not only the situation but also the reasons that hinder the successful development of the budget institution. Keywords: budget, budget planning, budget institution, efficiency, SWOT analysis, opportunities, threats, strengths, and weaknesses.