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Working with Budgets

Understand the core principles of budgeting and expenditure classifications.
Identify Civil Servant responsibilities to conduct effective budget management and forecasting.
Develop foundational skills in budget profiling, monitoring, and forecasting.
Explore the key features of risk management and the controls that underpin sound financial planning and decision-making.

Overview

Cross Civil Service

Making sound decisions on how taxpayers’ money is spent is crucial to maintaining public trust. This means making sure that public services are effectively funded, while minimising costs and avoiding overspends. Regardless of your role, grade, or the scope of the projects you typically work on, you have a responsibility to adhere to budgeting and governance processes.

This virtual course introduces the foundational principles of budget governance, with added knowledge checks throughout, to help you understand why budgeting is important, who is involved, and what your responsibilities are. You’ll also learn about the core principles of forecasting, risk management, and expenditure classification across the Civil Service.

This course features an optional virtual workshop to apply your learning through a series of interactive scenarios. Working in groups, you’ll be tasked with justifying, analysing and monitoring a budget, classifying expenditure types and revising a forecast.

Please refer to the course flyer for a full description of the learning.