STOPPED: All You Want to Know about Budgets and Financial Management 2010

“Good Financial Management is like fresh air, exercise and a healthy diet. Organisations need it every day to stay fit and to live a full and active life.” – Financial Skills Advisory Panel.

Do you think that a working knowledge of budgets and financial management in the public sector would put you and your colleagues in a position of advantage?

Whether you are a non-Financial Manager, a Local Councillor or Board Member or are otherwise involved or interested in budgets and financial management in the public and third sector or even a member of a Finance Team, you could benefit from one of our courses at which you would learn the basic ‘nuts and bolts’ of budgets and financial management and how to set, manage and monitor public sector budgets. It is relevant to all parts of the United Kingdom.

This course comes at a time of recession when all public and third sector bodies are addressing the "Value for Money" agenda, seeking to embed financial management skills, seeking efficient financial management and developing financial awareness among Members and Non-Financial Managers. If you are to be involved in any way in preparing, approving or managing budgets for 2011/12 this course may be especially timely.

This course will cover

• Embedding Financial Management Skills
• Accounting Basics
• Financial Governance
• Roles of Members, Managers and Accountants
• Devolved Financial Management
• Preparing Budgets
• Cost Centres, Subjective Analysis and Profiling
• Preparing Capital Programmes
• Financial Regulations and Standing Orders
• Budgetary Control and Monitoring
• Management Accounts
• Practical Exercises in Budgeting
• Final Accounts
• Using Financial Information Systems
• Linking Budgets to Policy
• Budgeting for Value for Money

The course is accompanied by a very useful book entitled: "All You Want to Know about Budgets and Financial Management 2010”

The cost of this seminar is £260 plus VAT in London and £230 plus VAT at the other venues, making a total of £305.50 in London and £270.25 at the other venues. The fee includes lunch. This represents excellent value for money but there are also discounts available:

• AWICS is committed to tenant empowerment and we are therefore offering a discount of 50% to tenant representatives including tenant board members of arms length management organisations and housing associations.
• If you buy one place at a seminar, you can buy additional places at the same seminar at a discount of 50% (this offer does not apply to London venues)
• The Institute of Public Sector Management (IPSM) has negotiated a discount of 25% for their members.

Note: Only one discount can be claimed for each place

Event Location(s)

Below is a list of the locations we will be holding this training course.

• London: Ibis Hotel, Euston - 13 May 2010
• North: Leeds Rugby Lodge, Headingley - 09 June 2010
• Midlands: Novotel Hotel, Coventry - 30 November 2010