"Program Budgeting," first proposed in the 1950s by David Novick of the RAND Corporation is a form of budgeting that does all of the following EXCEPT
A) permits global understanding of expenditures, consolidated into programs, focused on effectiveness.
B) Consolidated spending into "programs"
C) Ranking programs by order of importance, and facing the possibility of the least important ones being discontinued.
D) A focus on effectiveness

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Program Budgeting does not inherently involve ranking programs by order of importance with the explicit expectation that the least important ones might be discontinued. Its primary focus is on understanding and organizing expenditures by programs and their effectiveness, rather than prioritizing them for potential discontinuation.

"Program Budgeting," First Proposed in the 1950s by David Novick