IPAA Victoria’s Managing Budgets and Financial Plans course will provide you with the core skills and tools to help manage your budget in a public sector environment.
Public sector professionals rely on funding to deliver high-quality services to the community and need to be able to account for public money used in delivering public services.
Course overview
You will gain a comprehensive knowledge in areas such as:
- learning practical tools and techniques to help you manage public sector budgets
- using case studies to demonstrate a range of skills to effectively manage budgets
- applying contemporary budgeting practice, concept and terminology
- allocating and understand public sector budget effectively.
Course outcomes
Participants will be equipped with a deeper understanding of:
- practical government budgeting frameworks and processes
- core skills for developing and adapting budgets, monitoring and reporting
- the difference between an accrual budget and cash budget
- how to manage your budget consistently with whole-of-government processes.
Course audience
This course is designed for those who:
- program or project managers with budget and cost centre responsibilities
- work as a team leader
- members of an agency or business finance team
- looking to improve budget knowledge and skills.
This was an excellent course in introducing the discipline and rigour expected of government officers and teams when preparing annual or multi-year budgets for their operational units and projects. Mark was excellent in making a technical topic quite accessible to an audience with a varied background and level of financial management understanding.
— Athanasios Athanasopoulos (Suburban Rail Loop Authority)
Coming into the course with a limited understanding of financial planning and budgeting, I now feel confident about working with finance colleagues and ‘destination reading’ financial reports for my division.
— Rukhsana Tajin, Vic Dept of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions
The course itself is a great refresher but also offers a good foundational run-through of the financial frameworks and budgeting with a government lens. Would highly recommend this as well for those who have zero background in accounting/budget management as Mark did a great job in conveying what can be quite a bland topic (particularly for those who aren’t comfortable with numbers), into an engaging workshop.
— Kenny Tran, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing
As a finance professional I was really impressed by the delivery of some complex government accounting principles in an easy and engaging program. I highly recommend this program for all levels of your organisation
— Bryce King, Department of Education and Training
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