The FreeBalance Approach to PFM Reform

Many within the Public Financial Management (PFM) community think that FreeBalance is an software company that happens to build PFM solutions for improved governance and transparency. Actually, it’s the other way around… FreeBalance is a PFM specialist firm that happens to build software – something we discovered when we were helping the Government of Canada to calculate how much it legally had available for spending, known as the “free balance”.

This white paper provides an overview of some of the critical areas within PFM reform, including:

  • why PFM reform is so complex
  • PFM reform good practices
  • how we apply science to understanding country contexts.

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