The Obstacles to Implementation of Operational Budgeting in Non-Profit Universities of Mashhad

The use of optimal budgeting methods has always been of interest due to its impact on various aspects of the administration of human societies. In Iran, since many years ago, with the aim of linking the budget expenditures with the performance of the organization, the budget system has been reformed, and as a result, operational budgeting by the country's planning and budget institution has replaced the previous methods. However, the performance-based budgeting system has always faced challenges, and the purpose of this research is to identify the obstacles to the implementation of performance-based budgeting in the higher education institutions and non-profit universities of Mashhad. The mentioned barriers have been examined in four main groups: human, structural, technological and environmental, and results have been stated for each group. This research was conducted in 2019 and the data collection tool was done through 2 questionnaires with a practical purpose and a descriptive nature of survey, whose validity is based on the opinion of professors' experts and the appropriate reliability direction of questionnaire 2, based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 90% (0.90) ) has been evaluated and to achieve the desired reliability of Questionnaire 1, the data has been analyzed in two sections of inferential statistics and descriptive statistics with the TOPSIS method. The results of this research have shown that among the four main groups, the factor related to the human relations index is the most important obstacle in the implementation of operational budgeting in the studied universities.