Finance of Territorial Units
The course focuses on budgetary management of municipalities, cities and regions. Students will learn possible ways of compilation of budgets and evaluation of budgetary management.
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- analyse the basic instruments of financial management in municipalities;
- interpret and propose the budgetary process on the municipal level;
- criticise data in municipal budget;
- evaluate the financial situation of the municipality;
- describe alternative methods of budgeting.
Teacher(s)
Syllabus
The lectures are divided into 13 parts:
1. Approaches to budgeting.
2. – 3. Prediction of revenues and expenditures of territorial budgets.
4. Analysis of budgetary management and its evaluation.
5. – 8. Case study: Analysis of budgetary management in chosen municipality and evaluation of its financial situation.
9. Results oriented budgeting.
10. Compilation and presentation of territorial budget.
11. – 12. Case study: Presentation of chosen municipal budget.
13. Discussion.
