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Course Overview

Government budgets should reflect the country’s, or localized areas’, development priorities and ensure that available resources are adequate to finance current objectives. Government officials tasked with budget responsibilities therefore need the knowledge to conduct an effective analysis of the financial and non-financial implications.

This workshop seeks to equip government executives with the requisite components of budget strategies and to improve their ability to provide effective oversight function on budget implementation. The course is delivered through instructor led sessions, class discussions and case studies sessions.

Benefits of Attending

At the end of the course, you will:

  • Understand the budgetary process – balanced budgets, budget surplus, budget deficit
  • Be able to provide effective oversight function on budget implementation
  • Comprehend the core principles of budget monitoring and evaluation
Course Outline
  • Aligning the budget vertically to meet overall organization and country targets as well as local needs and priorities
  • Budget process and attaining buy-in from stakeholders in budget preparation, enactment, implementation and auditing
  • Budget assumptions, forecasting and  contingencies
  • Analysis of revenue – taxes, allocated funding, fees etc.
  • Expenditure: recurrent and capital
  • Potential impact of budget decisions and political repercussions
  • Short, medium and long term risks and challenges of the budget allocation
  • Financing of budget deficits – austerity, necessary expenditure versus budget sustainability
  • Best and worst practices budget management – case studies
  • Factors impeding budget implementation
Course Structure

Delegates will attend this 1 week course between 09:00 and 17:00 daily

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Alexander Brookes offers highly specialised monitoring and evaluation courses, leadership and project management training, human resources training and many other courses to aid professional development.

Our training courses allow professionals to expand their abilities – from technical subjects like econometrics and finance to essential skills like leadership, business and management.

Bespoke, high quality and cost effective training for organisations in the private and public sectors as well as individuals keen to develop their skills and progress their career are our speciality.

Alexander Brookes is accredited by the British Accreditation Council to offer short courses (less than 6 months).

The small classes at Alexander Brookes allow all our delegates to benefit from individual assistance from our experienced trainers – our sessions contain many case studies as well as “hands on” practical exercises. Our clients are extremely pleased with the interactive style and most importantly commend our dedication to give each of them applicable skills that they can use immediately when they return to the office.

Some of the benefits of using Alexander Brookes are as follows:

  • We use only expert course facilitators who are well remunerated ...
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