Public Sector Finance Excellence Workshop

This training workshop provides an understanding of the concepts and strategy relating to the effective management of public sector finances. You will learn:

• That Strategic financial planning assists organizations to achieve value for money.
• That Financial management is the process of using funds effectively, efficiently and transparently by a combination of procedures, methods, rules of conduct and standards.
• The key challenges in the financial management of the public sector.

Public Sector Finance Strategy

• Linking organizational strategy to financial strategy
• Interaction between short-term and long-term strategy
• Stakeholder analysis
• Corporate governance

Public Sector Financial Management

• Effective financial management
• Regulatory framework for financial accounting
• Assessing financial performance
• The role of treasury management

Challenges in Public Sector Financial Management

• Improving financial management
• Pressures on public finances
• Cost reduction
• Allocating resources

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.

Upon completion of this training workshop, you will understand:

• How public sector organizations are accountable to their stakeholders.
• Why it is more important to show how well public money has been spent rather than just how it is spent.