Detailed Seminar Outlines
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G02E&F PWGSC Employee Course - Orientation
to Financial Management (ITSB)
Language(s)
English & French
Seminar Description
Course Objectives:
- Understanding the key financial reforms affecting the government
- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of all key
players as they relate to financial management (from Central Agencies
to each employee in PWGSC)
- Explaining the government resource management cycle including
the linkages with the PWGSC planning and budgeting process
- Understanding and applying the government and TBS / Finance
budgetary controls
- Understanding and exercising the expenditures control process
- Understanding the importance of good financial management
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Presentation of instructor and participants
- Review of course objectives and agenda
Session 1: The Management Framework:
- Changes in management practices
- Summary of recent Government reforms
- The accountability concept
- How the government works:
- The key players: Parliament, Cabinet and Cabinet, Committees,
Treasury Board Secretariat, PCO and PMO, Finance, Receiver General,
Auditor General
- Roles and responsibilities of Departments and Agencies
- Roles and responsibilities of players in a department
- Managers
- Specialists
- Support staff
Session 2: Overview of the Government Management Cycle and the
PWGSC planning and budgeting process:
- Review of the phases and documents of the EMS: Priority setting
(the Budgetary Plan), Planning (The Business Plan), Budgeting
(The Report on Plans and Priorities - RPP), Monitoring and Control
(Supplementary Estimates), Reporting (The Departmental Report-DPR)
- The Planning Reporting and Accountability Structure (PRAS)
- Planning and budgeting concepts at PWGSC
- Purpose
- Steps
- Budgeting concepts
Session 3: Overview of budgetary control mechanisms
- Parliamentary Votes (types and limitations)
- TB allotment (incl. differences between O&M and capital)
- Operating budgets (rules and process)
- Flexibility's and controls for managing a budget
Session 4: The expenditure control process
- Process overview
- The expenditure cycle
- Financial signing authorities (expenditures initiation, contracting,
section 32,34 and 33)
- Roles and responsibilities
- Commitment control concept
- Account verification (section 34)
- Payment of accounts (section 33)
- Year-end process
- Forecasting and budget variance analysis
- Wrap-up and conclusion
- Review of course objectives and expectations
- The importance of good financial management
- What is coming up
- Course evaluation
- End
Note: Each session will contain different tools (checklists,
sample format, things to do / to avoid, etc.)
Instructor
Audience
Responsibility Centre Managers and employees with an interest
in the new developments in financial management reform.
Location
Place du Portage, Phase III
Tower B - 1E
11 Laurier St.
Gatineau, Quebec
Schedule
1 day
Times
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Cost
$375
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