Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Innovations in financing public sector projects
- Public expenditure management reforms
- Understanding financial statements: an examination of the information contained in common accounting terms.
- Fiscal imbalances: causes and consequences
Understanding public sector spending
- how governments spend public money to implement public policies and execute programmes and projects
- Planning and budgeting: an analysis of how public expenditure decisions are made
- Case studies on innovations in Public Expenditure Management (PEM)
- Participatory approaches to budgeting
Evaluating public expenditures
- understanding the effect of public spending decisions
- Activity based costing and cost management
- Fiscal devolution
Performance-based budgeting
- The role of ICT in PEM
- Auditing and accountability: exploring the concept of accountability and explaining the importance of corporate governance in ensuring government accountability
- Understanding public governance: exploring how the crisis of public administration has led to financial disaster in cities like Detroit
Cutting expenditures and the austerity agenda
- how government austerity policies are used to reduce government activity
- Common sources of public revenues, including inter-governmental transfers, and alternative sources used by governments across the world
- Taxation: an exploration of the advantages and disadvantages of taxation, custom duties and fees, and their uses, from behavioural change to stimulating business activity
