Public Financial Management: Budgeting, Execution & Fiscal Reporting
Public money carries a double duty — to be spent well and to be seen to be spent well — and the second duty is what public financial management exists to prove.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
Upcoming sessions
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Between a national budget speech and a school actually built runs a machinery most citizens never see: budget preparation, appropriation, commitment control, cash management, procurement interfaces and fiscal reporting. This programme trains that machinery for the officials who run it — credible budget preparation linked to plans and honest revenue forecasts; execution with commitment and cash controls that prevent arrears rather than record them; IPSAS-aligned fiscal reporting; and the accountability chain — internal audit, supreme audit institutions and the public accounts committee — engaged as the system working, not the enemy arriving.
What you will do
Who attends
Ministry of finance and line-ministry budget staff; treasury and accountant-general teams; state-owned enterprise finance officers; auditors and oversight staff; development partners’ PFM specialists.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The budget, prepared
- From plan to ceiling to line: a budget that means something
- Revenue forecasting without optimism — the credibility test
- Programme budgeting honestly applied, not relabelled
II.The budget, executed
- Commitment control: stopping arrears before they are incurred
- Cash management and the treasury single account in practice
- In-year adjustment: virement, supplementary budgets, discipline kept
III.Accounted for
- Fiscal reporting: IPSAS-aligned statements and what they reveal
- The audit chain: internal audit, the SAI, the public accounts committee
- PFM reform that sticks: sequencing, ownership, the politics admitted
Frequently asked
Are these programmes suitable for board members?
They are designed for them. The governance curriculum addresses the duties directors personally carry — risk-committee oversight, ESG accountability, the questions to put to management. Participants leave able to interrogate a board pack, structure committee work, and document the oversight a regulator expects to see.
What makes the strategy programmes different from conventional corporate training?
Faculty are senior practitioners who have carried the decisions themselves — never career presenters. Strategy is worked as decisions with owners and consequences, not frameworks on slides: participants build positions on their own institution’s questions and defend them in front of the room.
Where can I find the programme fee?
BIZENIUS does not publish a rate card. Request the brochure or apply for a seat, and a senior practitioner replies within one business day with the brochure and a fee shaped to your format, location and any tailoring.
What formats do governance programmes run in?
Classroom, live virtual and hybrid, in English and French. Boards frequently commission private in-house sessions, tailored to their own charter, committee structure and regulatory context.
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Knowledge transfer, emphasised throughout
“We worked with BIZENIUS for our Fresh Graduates Programme — they are simply amazing. Knowledge transfer and practical learning were emphasised throughout.”
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