Course Description
This course is designed to enable participants to the budgeting skill by identifying the basis of the budget elements estimation from the income and expenditure, and the general rules that govern the preparation and estimation; in addition to providing participants with the skills of preparing the final account and the financial reports. The course also aims to provide the participants with the skill of analyzing and assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of government budgets and how to rationalize public spending and achieve efficient and effective performance while reducing the budget deficit.
Course Objectives
- Familiarizing with the general framework for budgets in terms of its concept, its importance and the method of its preparation.
- Analyzing the final account for public institutions.
- Analyzing budgets for public institutions.
- Detecting anomalies, flaws and shortcomings in the budget and how to treat them.
- Being informed about the elements and components of the final accounts and discretionary budgets.
- Assessing and monitoring the strategic plan in their institutions and measure their success.
- Familiarizing with the concept, elements and obstacles regarding the identification of the performance measurement indicators.
- Identifying the performance measurement indicators for their institutions.
- Being informed about international experience in the budgetary analysis and performance assessment field.
Who Should Attend?
- Financial managers, department heads and financial analysts.
- Directorate of Financial Affairs and Directorate of Accounts in all public authorities.
- Auditors and all those interested in the budgets preparation, management and analysis.
- Operators for the preparation of budgets and final accounts.
- Those responsible for the follow-up expenses and revenues.
Course Details/Schedule
- Overview and Introduction to Public Budgeting and the Budget Process
- What is a Budget
- How are Budget Decisions Made
- Analyzing Costs
- Analyze final accounts for public institutions
- Structure of Governmental Budgets
- Understanding the Role of Conflict in Budgeting
- Taxation
- Estimating Revenues
- Revenue Sources
- Budget History
- Budget Reform
- Central Government Budgets
- Local Government Budgets
- Federal Budget Process
- Managing for Results in State Government
- Fiscal Administration
- Appropriation Management and monthly spending profile
- Cash Management and Investing
- Introduction to Capital Budgeting
- Investing Public Funds
- Budgeting for Capital Improvements
- Fiscal Management Issues in Nonprofits
- Performance Assessment and Improvement
- Determining and identifying KPIs for institutions
- Program Evaluation and Audit
