Public Sector Finance – Budgetary Control

Course Outline

Overview

By attending this training workshop, you will learn that budgetary control provides a formal basis for achieving specific plans.

Agenda

• Objectives of budgeting
• Types of budgets
• Cost definitions and behaviour
• Budgetary control

Target Audience

This training workshop is suitable for:

• New entrants to the public sector.
• Staff with some practical experience but with no financial qualifications.
• Non-financial staff in the public sector who need to understand the basics of financial management.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this training workshop, you will understand:

• How to derive budgets from strategic plans.
• The different types of cost and their behaviour.
• How budgets are used to plan and control the use of resources.