Let me be your guide to public financial management
/I have written and produced a new online course. It’s called Introduction to Public Financial Management and is aimed at anyone working in government or public sector organisations.
Completing the course will enable you to:
Understand the public finance management cycle.
Manage a budget for a project, service or organisation.
Understand the sources of funding available to governments and their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Understand the importance of creating value for money and how to measure it.
Know when it makes sense to involve a partner in the delivery of a project or service, and how to get the best from the partner.
Know how to evaluate investments and projects.
I created the course in partnership with FreeBalance, the government software company. They have been developing a portal for online learning — the FreeBalance Academy — and invited me to contribute my own courses to it. I took the opportunity to make an online version of the course I teach at the University of Nottingham.
The course has ten units, each aligned with a chapter of my book. Unlike a book, this course is interactive. There are more than 60 videos and a whole host of other resources including downloadable documents and quizzes to test your learning. And if you pass the final assessment at the end there is a certificate of completion.
Find out more, and register, by clicking the button below.
