Enhancing Financial Performance
Duration:
1 week
Price:£1250
Course ref:
12OEFP
Overview:
Focusing on the experience of the public sector in the UK and in developing countries, this programme aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills required to improve the overall financial management, monitoring and controls of your organisation. You will study proven strategies and techniques and undertake site visits to relevant private sector organisations.
Learning objective
You will be able to:
- Elements of strategy to secure sound public financial management
- Expenditure planning and control
- Principles and practice of resource allocation and budget management
- The effectiveness of international development assistance
- Developing accruals-based accounting to replace cash accounting
- Debt management – current approaches to controlling debt
- Action planning to implement financial reforms
- The significance of standards in public life – concepts of propriety, regularity and accountability
Course content
- Introduce and maintain best practice methods for measuring and managing financial performance
- Create and implement an action plan for significant improvement in your area of responsibility
- Think more broadly and creatively about the contribution of finance to achieving your organisation’s goals