Modern public and large-scale financial management depends on integrated systems that bring budgeting, accounting, treasury, and reporting into a single, controlled, real-time platform. This advanced programme equips senior finance and public sector professionals to understand, implement, and optimise Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS).
Designed for an international audience from officer to director level, the programme addresses IFMIS architecture and modules, the link to the budget and chart of accounts, implementation and reform, controls and security, data and reporting, and the change management that determines success. It engages the technology trends shaping public financial management systems.
Course Objectives
Upon the successful completion of this program, attendees will be able to:
- Critically appraise IFMIS and its role
- Understand IFMIS architecture and modules
- Link IFMIS to the budget cycle
- Design and apply the chart of accounts
- Integrate budgeting, accounting, and treasury
- Manage commitment and expenditure control in IFMIS
- Generate financial reports and information
- Strengthen controls and segregation of duties
- Manage system security and data integrity
- Plan an IFMIS implementation or reform
- Manage data migration and readiness
- Lead change management and adoption
- Build user capacity and support
- Manage IFMIS risks and failures
- Optimise and sustain the system
- Anticipate emerging trends in financial management systems
Course Outline
- Module 1: IFMIS & Its Role
- Module 2: IFMIS Architecture & Modules
- Module 3: Linking IFMIS to the Budget Cycle
- Module 4: The Chart of Accounts
- Module 5: Integrating Budgeting, Accounting & Treasury
- Module 6: Commitment & Expenditure Control
- Module 7: Financial Reports & Information
- Module 8: Controls & Segregation of Duties
- Module 9: System Security & Data Integrity
- Module 10: Planning IFMIS Implementation
- Module 11: Data Migration & Readiness
- Module 12: Change Management & Adoption
- Module 13: User Capacity & Support
- Module 14: Managing IFMIS Risks
- Module 15: Emerging Trends: Financial Management Systems
Who Should Attend
This advanced programme is designed for public sector finance officials, finance systems and IFMIS managers, controllers, donor and development finance professionals, and senior officers responsible for financial management systems internationally.
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