Budget Management and Control for Local Government

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The Programme

The responsibility for budget management and control is being cascaded down to individual Departments and Centres within Irish Local Government.  This creates a need for those with the responsibility for these areas and Elected Members to understand the financial processes, reports and documents that they are being asked to comment upon.

This half day Budget Management and Control for Local Government course is designed to provide the support needed by detailing the system of preparing budgets, the process by which actual expenditure is calculated and the control system used whereby actual and budgetary figures are compared to produce ‘variances’.  The process of analysing variances, for the purpose of explaining under or over spending is a key aspect of this course, in the same way that is the main means of effecting budgetary control in Local Government.

Who is this for?

This course is for Irish Local Government Officials with devolved budget responsibility and Elected Members who need to understand the financial processes, reports and documents that they are being asked to comment upon.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, participants will understand:

• the process of budget preparation and prepare a budget
• the local government budgetary process
• the basis on which actual expenditure is calculated and then compared against the budget to create a variance, to effect control analyse and interpret the variances on a budgetary control statement

Course Content

The Budget Management and Control for Local Government course will cover the following areas: 

• Budget preparation
• Budget control
• Understanding and analysing variances

Course Leader

This course will be delivered by members of our experienced Finance Team: Dr Deirdre Bane and Majella Malone.