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Modernizing Budgeting: A Transformational Shift to Priority-Based Budgeting March 2027
Modernizing Budgeting: A Transformational Shift to Priority-Based Budgeting March 2027
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Empower decision makers with actionable insights that enable strategic funding of high-impact programs, ensuring resources are allocated to community priorities.
This program uses interactive sessions to teach the process of implementing priority-based budgeting and applying the data to budget creation and decision making.
Advantages of Priority-Based Budgeting:
- Offers transparency into what services the government provides and how much it costs to provide them.
- Allows more meaningful comparisons to other service providers when considering options such as outsourcing or shared services.
- Shows how personnel are affiliated with different programs, making it easier to understand where the workforce is spending its time.
- Gives cost context to programs using invaluable data points rather than categorizing them by department.
- Includes program alignment to community priorities to ensure the funded programs reflect community needs.
- Gives decision makers more insight to fund the right programs rather than those that were predefined.
- Directs funds straight to community priorities.
Who Should Attend:
This program is for people who have already mastered the fundamentals and want to learn a specific form of budgeting: priority-based budgeting.
PRACTICE AREAS: [12] Financial Management and Budgeting
TOPICS: Budgeting & Finance
JOB TITLES: Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Assistant Chief Administrative Officer (ACAO), Department Head, and Mid-Management and Entry-Level Staff

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