Budget execution is often treated as the accounting phase of the budget cycle. The focus is on controlling expenditures so that public officials spend funds according to the wishes of the governing body. The role of budgeteers in the budget office is to monitor accounting reports to ensure that appropriations are not overspent and to monitor trends in spending to spot expenditure activities that might lead to violation of expenditure limits set by the governing body.The control model of budget execution is not incorrect, but it is incomplete, because it neglects the management focus of budget execution. Nonetheless, the control model provides a good foundation for the larger discussion of budget execution.