Managing Reduced Budgets in the Public Sector

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Programme Contents

The Challenge of Managing with Reduced Budgets
- Implications of revenue reduction and budget cuts
- Lessons from commercial management
Financial Planning and Effective Budgeting
- Research and essential preparation
- Revenue vs results
- Forecasting resource requirements
- Prioritising resources
Managing Funding and Revenues
Managing and Controlling Costs
- Fixed and variable costs
- Capital expenditure
- Operational expenditure
- Cost control methods
- Economies of scale
- Outsourcing
- The test of appropriateness and necessity
- Cost sharing opportunities
Risk Management
- Identifying the risks that arise when budgets are reduced
- Risk control and management
Maximising Operational Results
- Opportunities for increasing efficiency
Managing the Implementation of Changes Imposed by Budget Cuts
- The 7 stages of change management
- Presenting the business case

- Overcoming resistance to budget changes
- Managing staff reactions
- Monitoring and measuring
- Identifying impact
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