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Controlling has played an outstanding role in the strategic management of organizations. In this context, the Controlling agencies, which are the agents responsible for guiding public institutions, must also endeavor to search for the improvement of their practices. This article aims at analyzing whether the functions of Controlling are applicable to Federal and State Public Administration control agencies. In order to achieve the aforementioned, this study, which makes use of an exploratory aim and a qualitative approach, has used bibliographic review and document research as procedures for gathering data from the Internet pages of each of the agencies. This data has been compared with the concept of functions of Controlling as well as with previous studies. One has to conclude that there is partial applicability of the functions of Controlling. As a result, it has been shown that eleven out of the fourteen institutions surveyed created their mission and eight their vision, making up for, respectively, a percentage of 78,5% and 57% of the total sampling. Five Controlling institutions carry out all of the activities included in a given function and one Controlling institution has achieved full execution of the activities related to Controlling. Five institutions outstand in the execution of the activities related to Controlling, reaching percentages of 83,33%, while one institution reached 77,78% and three others 72,22%. This study contributes to the discussion and the definition of the concept about the functions of controlling and for the understanding of the way these are carried out in public agencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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