Having been attended by Prof. Dr. Adel Azar, President of SAC, the 9th International Conference on Performance-Based Budgeting (PBB) was held successfully at Al-Zahra University Conference Center from 8 to 9 January 2019. During this two-day international event, which was attended by some high-ranking Iranian and international officials in the field of public management, including Dr. Nobakht, Vice-President of the President of the I. R. Iran and Head of the Plan and Budget Organization, Dr. Dej Pasand, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance as well as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Plan, Budget and Audit Commission of Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian Parliament), various lectures, seminars and panels were held. Dr. Adel Azar, who was the Chair of Conference, delivered two speeches at the opening and closing ceremonies of the event focusing on evaluation of implementation of PBB across executive bodies in Iran. The President of Conference pointed to PBB Maturity Model as well as emphasis of the Supreme Leader of I. R. Iran on reforming the structure of the country's current budgeting system and stressed that all Iranian practitioners and authorities should try to direct the budgeting system of government to the deployment of scientific approaches. Finally, he noted that SAC has made the necessary arrangements for implementing the performance auditing across the country. The Conference was ended by reading the closing statement and awarding the letters of appreciation and the maturity prizes to the leading public executive organizations in the establishment of PBB.