Helping public sector managers get value for money from their budgets
A blog about public financial management: the fine art of managing public money to deliver vital services to the public. It involves budgeting, accounting, controlling, auditing, reporting, policy-making and decision-taking.
Choose a public service organisation — it could be where you work or your local government or a major hospital — and I will bet you that the number of human resources professionals is greater than the number of procurement professionals. Not only that, it will be far out of proportion with the split of the budget between employee and non-employee expenses. Why is that?
Read MoreOver the years I’ve attended several courses on negotiation skills but none of them have been as helpful as reading Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury. Read on to find out why.
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