Nowoczesne Systemy Zarządzania (Mar 2019)
Legal basis for finance management in territorial self-government units
Abstract
The objective of the paper is an examination of critical legal conditions related to finance management in territorial self-government units. Management of finance in territorial self-government units is regulated by numerous legal regulations. Failure to respect legal standards set up by the legislator with respect to finance management may cause disciplinary or penal prosecution. Studies show that the most frequently ascertained violations concerning legal aspects comprise: budgetary inventory and reporting; public procurement; commitment of expenditures; verification of the conformity of financial operations with the financial plan. The conducted study has confirmed the general opinion that Adjudication Committees treats perpetrators of breaches to public finance discipline in a rather liberal way. In more than a half of cases no penalties have been in fact exercised, and the most frequently imposed penalties constituted a sanction with the lowest degree of severity, and namely a formal warning. Despite such a rather liberal treatment of perpetrators of breaches to the binding legal standards in finance management, the number of violations to the public finance discipline was found to be dropping in the past few decades.
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