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Capital Budgeting 101 Webinar-on-Demand
January 1, 2020 @ 8:00 am - December 31, 2020 @ 11:30 pm
| $175 – $200GFOA Alberta, in cooperation with Bloom Centre for Municipal Education, is proud to bring back the 10-Part Webinar Series for 2019 as “Webinars-on-Demand”.
Learn the requirements for high quality capital budgeting and planning. The Capital Budgeting 101 Webinar offers the following:
- Understand the complexity of a municipality and the role of capital in the delivery of municipal services
- Capital Budget vs. Capital Plan
- Basic structure and differences between a capital budget and capital plan (projects and funding sources)
- Interaction between capital budgeting, long-term planning, tangible capital assets and asset management
- Essential principles and best practices for good capital budgeting and planning
- Annual capital process. How to build a process timeline for success
- Capital budget structure – asset category, dept, asset type, funding (template provided)
- Basics of funding – sources and how funding plans are developed
- “Capital equation” concept explained
- Attributes of an effective and successful process (with examples)
- Capital budget process and timeline(with examples)
- Prioritizing a capital plan; what criteria are used to base decisions
- Integrating input from internal and public communication (administrative, council and public engagement)
- Review of all funding sources (risks and opportunities)
- Review of debt as a financing source (tax and non-tax supported)
- How to build a funding plan with a strategic emphasis
- Cash-flow financing; leveraging future funding sources (example)
- “Funding pool concept” – forecasting/calculate long-term funding sources
- “Gap analysis concept”; how to calculate a funding gap in simple form as well as in detail (spreadsheet tool reviewed)
- Capital business cases
This “webinar-on-demand” option offers the convenience of anytime viewing. A password will be provided for access upon successful registration and will be valid for 60 days from date of purchase.
You can either register for this “Single Webinar-on-Demand” for $175 here, or choose to register for the full 10-Part Webinar Series below:
- 10-Part Webinar-on-Demand Series for 2019 for $1,500: https://www.gfoa.ab.ca/event/10-part-on-demand-2019-webinar-series/ (savings of $25/webinar)