PIA6302 · Public Budgeting and the Management of Financial Resources

- Introduce the key concepts and core issues in public budgeting and financial management; - Detect the problems and shortfalls of traditional budgeting and the objectives of budgeting and financial management reforms; - Evaluate current trends in budgetary and financial management reforms, both locally and internationally; - Understand key issues in the public budgeting and financial management in Hong Kong with a view to critically assessing them with the techniques introduced in this class.