Finance Refresher for SES - Mastering Your Financial Environment

This course maps to capability: 3
COST Prices include GST and are subject to change
Please contact IPAA New South Wales for more information.

Overview

This is a refresher workshop for senior executives moving into areas of financial responsibility or an update for officers promoted into senior executive or for new senior executives coming from outside the New South Wales public service. The aim of the course is to provide participants with a strategic overview of the NSW Financial Management Framework and budgeting, planning, control and reporting requirements in order to master the financial environment.

Customised Agency Program

Customised agency programs are training programs uniquely designed in content and format to address the particular needs of your organisation. Customised agency programs are delivered at your workplace, thus saving your organisation money and enhancing team building.

All IPAA NSW courses are available as customised agency programs. Case studies and organisational policies and procedures from your organisation can be incorporated into these programs.

IPAA NSW matches the most appropriate consultant to the needs of your organisation, and offers flexibility in content, length and timetable, all at a convenient location. This flexible and cost-effective option benefits all agencies, particularly those with offices in regional NSW.

For further information or to receive a written proposal, contact IPAA NSW:

Tel: 02 9228 5225

Fax: 02 9241 1920

info@nsw.ipaa.org.au

Course Content

This course includes understanding the components of the NSW Government's Financial Management Framework, describing and analysing the budgeting and appropriation mechanisms that fund the activities of departments and agencies and mapping the controls over the authority to spend public money. Participants learn to apply the planning tools used in determining objectives, setting results indicators and service measures, reviewing and improving objective statements and developing result KPIs and service delivery performance measures using a case study approach.

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

  • describe the key elements of the NSW Government's Financial Management Framework
  • identify the budgeting and appropriation mechanisms utilised to fund the activities of departments and agencies
  • apply the planning tools used in determining objectives, setting results indicators and service measures
  • utilise internal control assessment tools to assess financial risks and establish effective, efficient and appropriate control procedures
  • apply an understanding of cost behaviours in order to manage and forecast costs.

Benefits to your organisation

  • greater compliance with the legislative requirements of the framework and improved control over financial risks

Benefits to you

  • better understanding of, and confidence with the application of the NSW Financial Management Framework
  • checklists and templates that can be applied back in the workplace