Budgeting for Clerks and Officers 

This 2-hour informal course is aimed at officers who are involved in preparing and monitoring budgets.  

If your larger council uses accounting software for budgeting, we will have part of the group looking at how to make the software work for you while those from smaller councils looking at how best to get an overall picture using spreadsheets.

Topics include zero base and incremental budgeting, medium and long term capital planning, earmarking, spotting the gaps, assessing contingencies as well as trouble shooting past problems and sharing ideas and suggestions.

We will also look at available best practice via the Transparency Code.

Suitable Audience

Finance officers and clerks. We recommend that finance officers attend this session in advance of the budget setting season.

Benefits

By the end of the ‘Budgeting for Clerks and Officers' you will:

• Understand how and when to prepare a budget
• Be able to support your proposal through to precept
• Be aware of the factors that affect a budget
• Understand how to manage a budget
• Have a usable working approach for the coming year

Leaders

Eleanor Greene ICPA, Internal Auditor and Sector Specialist

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