Civil Servants Guide to Budgeting

An interactive hands on day exploring techniques and requirements for building and managing a budget, as well as profiling, forecasting, re-forecasting and variance reporting.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand Parliament's role including estimates and votes
• Understand what a budget is and what it is used for
• Understand the different budgeting techniques available, including zero budgeting, bottom up, top down, full and activity costing
• gain an insight into what challenge rounds are
• Learn how to defend your budget
• Understand the relationship between budgeting and HM Treasury CSR and Spending Review requirements
• Learn the art of profiling and gain tips on how to achieve accuracy
• Understand what forecasting is, and how to do it accurately
• Learn how to re-forecast and undertake regular variance reporting