Outsourcing support to the private sector makes financial sense when budgets are tight, because there are fewer rules governing the use of workers there and original manufacturers may understand their products better than government employees do.
These drives are packed with a daunting amount of data: production schedules, marketing strategies, departmental budgets, financial projections.
The move also comes amid radical shifts to the education business, with online start-ups and top-flight colleges pushing more and more students to the Internet for low- and n0-cost education, and local school districts across the nation cutting budgets amid financial pressures.
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The findings of the inspection team include poor financial management such as "hand-to-mouth" budgets with the authority lurching from one financial crisis to another.
And schools doing their part to balance tuition costs with financial aid and strained operating budgets.
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Which areas of education are covered in the financial planning documents and approved budgets?
The majority of councils in Scotland will set their budgets for the next financial year around 10 February.
Some councils are still in the process of finalising their budgets for the forthcoming financial year, which starts in April.
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While councils have been agreeing their budgets for the coming financial year since January, the bulk will meet on Thursday.
The Union has done a lot over the last 18 months, and we have taken decisions that were unthinkable just a year ago in the fields of economic governance, on budgets and imbalances, financial support, and financial regulation.
As states continue to weather the financial crisis, they are trimming state budgets.
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The financial-economic crisis continues, sapping military budgets on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Not only must governments heal financial systems, they also have to balance budgets or at least get them back to something that looks like sane economics.
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In opposition, Labour promised to increase councils' financial freedom by ending the capping of their budgets and by giving them back the right to set and collect business rates (commercial-property taxes).
However, budgets help lessen the number of financial arguments.
Companies that measure marketing ROI are savvier with respect to the financial effects of their marketing decisions and, for example, are more likely to be able to estimate the financial impact of any cuts in their marketing budgets.
In recent years, the Welsh government has made tens of millions of pounds available to health boards from its reserves late in the financial year to avoid them breaching their annual budgets - which they are legally prohibited from doing.
In an era of limited budgets, attacking these important non-financial barriers makes both environmental and fiscal sense.
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How much their budgets will be cut for the coming financial year is hard to tell just yet.
Asia's leading airlines are slashing business-class fares through special promotions on a scale not seen since the global financial crisis, as banks continue to cut travel budgets and staff.
These cuts, and the financial repercussions for retirees, have additional consequences for state budgets and for the taxpayers who would fund this increased reliance on government programs.
With shrinking overall budgets and internal NASA divisions about how much financial support to allocate for commercial-space ventures, the agency is looking for ways to spark public excitement about deep-space travel.
With shrinking overall budgets and internal NASA divisions about how much financial support to allocate for commercial space ventures, the agency is looking for ways to spark public excitement about deep-space travel.
That means giving European institutions more power to determine national budgets and economic policies, and to oversee the financial sector.
Kirchner and his partners approved a law of financial administration which gives unlimited powers to government administrators to re-allocate budgets, a function usually carried in coordination and with the approval of Congress.
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Brands and media agencies are allocating ever-increasing budgets to support the digital content strategies in industries ranging from entertainment and financial services to automobiles, health care and energy.
The financial industry was the worst hit, with 49% of IT departments planning to cut their budgets.
Most colleges and universities do not have enough on-campus housing to satisfy demand, and when school budgets are tight, maintaining and upgrading housing can take a back seat to other financial priorities.
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