Gestão orçamentária: o caso da UFSM

Abstract

Public administration went through different reforms to achieve their current characteristics. Among the objects of this study, there is the public budget, a regulatory framework of revenues and expenses in public institutions. Inside UFSM, budget resources are distributed according to the Resource Distribution Index (IDR). This study investigates the perception of different agents on the distribution and budget management at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). A survey among managers of the institution teaching centers (center directors and deputy directors, heads of department, undergraduate and graduate students coordinators and their secretaries and financial secretaries) was carried out with this purpose. A structured questionnaire was adopted as an instrument of data collection, consisting of seventy-two questions that approached demographic variables and questions concerning knowledge and perception of the University budget. The Exploratory Factor Analysis was used as a technique to identify factors related to the institution's budget, and subsequently the Bartlett's test of sphericity and measure of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin were used, by which resource factors, conceptualization, projection, annual expenditures, relevance , disabilities, terms, practice, transparency, daily wages and tickets, permanent, distribution and accountability were pointed out. Results showed that the factor regarding to resources distribution obtained low values in knowledge level, characterizing a low level of knowledge concerning the criteria of resources distribution among the rectory and teaching units, and among the units of teaching centers. It was also recorded that the deadlines for the release and utilization of financial resources are not adequate. Actions should be performed in order to improve the transparency level between rectory and teaching centers as well as between teaching centers and their administrative units, regarding the distribution of resources.