The Public Sector PBR Cycle can be used with a particular country's system to analyze the agencies involved and processes involved at each stage in the annual PBR cycle. Someone attempting to understand a country's system where it is not related back to a generic model such as this can quickly become lost.

The way the Cycle is used is that the different agencies and in some cases processes within the different countries are mapped onto the generic model. This enables a rapid comparison between different countries.