This seminar will cover the live issues of Financial Management, Financial Control and Audit for Operational Programmes in the 2014-2020 period. There will be a special focus on management verifications, the most frequent audit issues, and financial planning in programmes.
Managing Public Sector Budgets and Services - What to Do and How to Do it
Date
Address
Links
Section
Event Location
Event Description
Effective public sector budgeting is key to effective public service delivery and the budget is the way a public sector body expresses its priorities. And public sector bodies are more than ever faced with limited resources and competing priorities because of high levels of demand for public services, often driven by economic uncertainty. So effective budgeting processes and control of budget execution and service delivery performance are essential to ensure the best use of resources to achieve their objectives.
This workshop focuses on the key financial and operational risks across the whole public financial management cycle at all levels of public administration, including EU, national and sub-national level and at organisational, departmental and unit level i.e. budgeting, the execution of budgets and the delivery of services and including the role of auditors in ensuring that public sector bodies manage risks by exercising effective control over finances and services.
It will address key issues such as how to effectively apply performance budgeting, stakeholder impact budgets (such as gender-based budgeting), how to make realistic choices about prioritising public sector expenditure to make best use of limited resources, how to link budgets to service priorities, how to prepare public sector budgets in difficult times and how to use them as a tool for managing public services, including setting and using KPIs and when and how to react to emerging unfavourable outcomes. The workshop aims to help you face the key challenges in your own environment, what to do at different stages of the process and how to do it, using the practical experience of experts who have faced these challenges in different EU Member States and at different levels of government.
By the end of the workshop you will have gained a better understanding of:
- The role of budgeting in public financial management;
- The current context/challenges for budgeting for finance staff/budget users at organisational, departmental and activity level;
- How to identify and manage the most commonly arising financial and operational risks in the budget preparation process;
- How to identify and manage the key risks to the sustainability of the finances of a public sector body across the entire public financial management cycle;
- How to identify and manage the most common financial/operational risks in the execution of budgets/delivery of services;
- How auditors can contribute to the exercise of effective control over finances and services and how they can assist bodies to improve their management of finances and services.
How will it help you?
The workshop is based on presentations, practical exercises and case studies from different EU Member States, with an emphasis on a high level of interactivity. It will offer an excellent platform to discuss specific issues which you are currently facing and exchange experiences/challenges in budgeting, financial management/operational service management at all levels of government.
Who will most benefit?
This workshop will be of particular relevance to officials and experts from European institutions and agencies, ministries, national executive agencies, regional governments, municipalities and other public sector bodies such as educational institutions, i.e.:
- Finance professionals, who are responsible for preparing budgets, financial management reports and final accounts;
- Service managers, who need to understand budgets, financial management reports and operational management reports so that they can use them to plan and manage their services;
- Auditors, who are responsible for ensuring that public sector bodies exercise effective control over finances and services and assisting bodies to improve their management of finances and services.
“The days of the politics of “and” are over - Budgeting is now about making choices based on the needs of stakeholders about what services to deliver and how much”
Michael Burnett
“Everyone who cares about high-quality, inclusive and responsive public services needs to care about budgeting”
Ronnie Downes
Project leader
Michael Burnett BA FCA
MCIPS MCIPD
For more information about the event, please contact:
Related Events
What is this course about?
What is this course about?
The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht is organising a seminar entitled "Improving Public Sector Performance in the 21st Century".
The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht is organising a seminar entitled "Certification Programme for Data Protection Officers and Other Data Protection Professionals - Basic and Advanced Module"
The European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht is organising a seminar entitled "Understanding the EU Budget". This seminar will be held in Maastricht (NL) on 15-16 June 2017.
What is this course about?
Target group
Target group
Target group
The conference will address many of the central FESSUD issues, such as the ways in which the growth and performance of economies in the last 30 years have been dependent on the characteristics of the processes of financialisation; how has financialisation impacted on the achievement of specific e
Besides a wide-ranging reform of the regulatory landscape for the banking, investment and insurance sectors, the European institutions responded to the financial crisis by launching an in-depth discussion on strengtheni
Events of the week
Jobs
EURACTIV News
- Why Costa has to prepare for a tough term ahead
- EU pitches voluntary contributions to fund Ukraine military aid to circumvent Hungary’s blockage
- NATO members expected to hold tough talks on future relations with Russia
- North Kosovo ethnic tensions remain risk for violence, NATO official says
- Fresh protests in Turkey over violence against women