Budgeting and Forecasting
Budget Best Practices Monthly Series: Focus on Personnel Budgeting
Webinar
March 21, 2025
1 p.m.-3 p.m. ET
- Field of Study: Finance
- Credits: 2
- Prerequisite: None
Details:
For most local governments, personnel costs make up the majority of the operating budget, so budget managers must have a strong understanding of what’s driving these costs. To aid in this effort, GFOA has developed several Best Practices related to personnel budgeting. This webinar will focus on the personnel budgeting Best Practices and will provide advice on how to implement them.
Who Will Benefit: Finance professionals interested in applying GFOA Best Practices to improve the budgeting process.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize GFOA’s Best Practices on effective budgeting of salaries and wages, inflationary indices in budgeting, key issues in succession planning, and the role of the finance officer in collective bargaining
- Identify the components of an effective system of budgeting for salary and wages
- Discuss examples of local governments that have effectively implemented GFOA’s Best Practices related to personnel budgeting
- Member Price: $95.00
- Non-member Price: $200.00