The term budget is always misunderstood. You often hear people say give me your budget. What is referred to in this sense is expenditure. A budget is both side of a coin, Revenue and Expenditure. For budget preparation, it is important to know your revenue sources and your expenditures whether capital or recurrent. The implementation of the budget and monitoring to ensure you are on course. This 5-day course will expose participants to the essentials of budget preparation, the budgeting process, budget defence mechanism for success and efficient and effective implementation and monitoring techniques,

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the course, participants should be able to

• Define a budget
• Know the history of budgeting
• Describe essentials of Budget preparation
• Know the Budgeting process
• Know types of budget
• Describe Budget defence mechanism
• Know Key issues in budget implantation
• Know Budget monitoring techniques
• Know Budget reporting format.
• Outline budget policy for the organization for approval.

For Whom:

Budget Executives, Planning officers in government agencies and MDA, Finance Executives in companies, Budget Advisor, Non Finance and Account Officers taking up Budgeting and planning  roles. Head of Finance and Accounts, Head of Procurement etc. NGO in project management etc