Introduction to Outcomes Based Budgeting

Are you looking to move your budgets past simple mathematics, and improve your project outcomes?

With the needs of people at the centre of investment decision making, it is becoming increasingly difficult to develop budgets. Learn the skills of outcome based budgeting in this introductory course.

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Course content

This course explores a new depth to government budgeting - with focus not on the cost of inputs, but the outcomes achieved for society. Learn how to design strategic plans that inform budget priorities and resource allocations; develop performance indicators; use outcome hierarchy methodology; and implement 'one page management' systems.

Learning outcomes

At the completion of this outcomes based budgeting course you will:

• Understand what a budget is, who decides it, how it works, how it affects them and how to have a meaningful input to it
• Be equipped with the basic concepts and tools of modern program and outcomes-based budgeting
• Be introduced to key budgeting texts, guidebooks and working examples of modern program and outcomes-based budget documents
• Be able to demystify government budgeting by simplifying the jargon and structure of budget statements both at a whole of government level and at an agency program and activity level
• Be able to assist public officials to understand the close relationship between their agencies strategic plan and its budget document
• Understand the fundamentals of outcomes based budget management

Course prerequisites

This outcomes based budgeting course has no prerequisites and is open to all members of the public.

About this presenter

Professor Carol Mills is the Director of the UTS Institute for Public Policy and Governance (IPPG), Centre for Local Government (CLG) and Co-Director of the Centre for Sports, Business and Society (CSBS). Carol has held the CEO positions of Director General, Communities NSW and the Department of Arts, Sport and Recreation in the New South Wales public sector and was Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Parliamentary Services in Canberra. She has also been Deputy Director General in the NSW Departments of Housing and Ageing, Disability and Home Care, and was the inaugural head of the NSW Office of Community Housing.

Professor Mills has achieved outstanding results in driving major policy, program and organisational reforms in a series of challenging and high-profile roles. She applies a strong focus on improving customer service, risk management, governance and financial performance to achieve lasting business improvement. Her expertise is built on effectively combining strategic and practical approaches to management and change. She has extensive board and committee experience as both a member and chair, including a number of major cultural boards, the NSW Institute of Sport, Western Sydney Parklands Trust, Gymnastics NSW, the City Recital Hall, and the Sydney Western Harbour Business Improvement District. Carol has tertiary qualifications in Economics, Management, Public Policy and Philosophy, and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Australian Evaluation Society.