Course Description
Building a Performance-Based Budget: Ten Steps Using the Logic Model |
CreditsCPE Credits: 6 Course AvailabilityClick on Course Offerings to Register |
Course Agenda
MODULE 1
Examine the Foundations of Planning and Budgeting
- Compare and contrast key aspects of private sector and governmental planning and budgeting fundamentals
- Identify the purposes of an agency budget and how the key elements of the budget contribute to those purposes
MODULE 2
Establish the Performance Groundwork
- Build a strategic hierarchy from mission to goals to objectives to activities, including performance measures
- Validate the strategic hierarchy by incorporating strategy maps/logic models/theory of change
- Identify initiatives in the strategic plan that begin in the budget year
MODULE 3
Link Performance to Budget Formulation
- Review characteristics of different budget types and identify the key elements of the performance linked budget
- Align the performance linked budget with the Federal budget calendar
- Identify internal and external sources of quantitative budget data
MODULE 4
Execute the Performance Linked Budget
- Create a cost structure tied to the strategic hierarchy in order to validate the cost of performance change and control those costs
- Capture and report integrated budget and performance data for decision-makers and stakeholders
- Adjust the budget and adjust performance targets to maintain a performance link to the budget
MODULE 5
Interactive Exercise and Course Wrap-up
- Recap performance linked budgeting
- Summarize and integrate strategic planning, performance management, and performance linked budgeting