Course objectives:
- Understanding budgets
- Common types of budgets
- Approaches to budgeting
- Accounting and accrual methods
- Building programmatic budgets
- Reading financial statements
- Balance sheet
- Operating or income statement
- Cash flow sheet
- Developing proposals to secure financial resources
- Where to look for funding
- Preparing a grant proposal
- The ‘business plan’ approach
- Budgeting and evaluation
- Evaluation models and approaches
- Funder expectations
- Navigating financial changes and challenges
- Budget cuts
- Turnaround strategies
