Postgraduate Diploma in Public Finance Management

I am the academic programme head of this new course which will be rolled out for the first time in 2022.

If you are a mid-career civil servant wanting to professionalise your career as public sector finance specialists, or you are a manager with an undergraduate qualification in another discipline who currently has a financial management delegation and realises that future career progress depends on acquiring more public financial management skills, this higher-education diploma will give you the opportunity to learn how:

• Budgeting can be integrated with strategic and operational planning to support organisational goals and objectives, and support effective risk management
• Macroeconomic factors, the fiscal framework and the intergovernmental budget process influence departmental and municipal allocations, as well as programme budgets;
• Manage a budget process effectively, from the budget formulation and decision-making stages, to effective and efficient financial management, reporting and auditing
• Understand how information technology systems and governance impact on public financial management and the control environment.

Many course of this nature tend to focus either on the accounting or the economic elements of public financial management, but this course offers a nice interdisciplinary balance, and an effective mix of theory and praxis which is tailored to the South African governance context.

To find out more about the programme, download the brochure and find out more about how to apply, please click here.