Pretoria: 30 September – 04 October 2024
Dubai: 30 September – 04 October 2024
Overview
The course is designed to deepen participants’ understanding of Financial Management techniques. It strengthens skills and gives insight into financial management and effective budgetary control tools. It covers financial management; record keeping; budgeting; and budget planning, monitoring and control and forecasting. The course provides knowledge and skills to enable participants to successfully plan, prepare, analyse, manage and control budgets and forecast effectively.
The course targets finance officers, financial administrators, financial policy analysts, accountants, economists, economic analysts and policy planners, managers, project managers, coordinators and officers and anyone interested in the course
This course aims to help participants appreciate the importance of sound public sector financial management and budgetary controls and help them improve their reporting and delivery against budget.
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Be equipped with skills to design ways to manage and control use of financial
resources in the public sector
- Be able to link the institutional budget to strategic and performance plans
- Be able to develop effective expenditure monitoring mechanisms
- Be able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various budgeting models
- Be able to perform revenue, expenditure and budget analysis and forecasting
- Be able to construct budgets utilising alternative budgeting, following policy guidelines