O impacto da lei de responsabilidade fiscal nos orçamentos: uma análise do desempenho financeiro dos municípios do Rio Grande do Sul de 1997 a 2004

Abstract

The Fiscal Responsibility Act, which was enacted in the year 2000, has brought important changes to the management of public resources in order to promote transparency, control and balance of the public accounts. As a management tool, the public budget is used to provide information which may meet the purposes of the law, to measure the results of the revenues and expenses which are needed for the maintenance of activities developed by governments. In order to relate these associations, one analyzes in this work the annual results of the municipal budgets and the financial performance of the municipalities of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in the management before and after the implantation of the law, according to data obtained from TCE/RS. As for the theoretical referential, one discusses the utilization of budgets at the organizations, one approaches the enactment of FRA and the impacts on budgetary management, as well as the utilization of performance benchmarks in order to measure the results. By means o