BOOTCAMP - Essentials of Budgeting & Forecasting 2023-2024

Date: 07/14 & 17/2023

Location: OASBO Conference Center | 98 Commerce Park Drive | Westerville, OH 43082

Fee: $200 (Member) / $400 (Non-Member)

A course for those seeking their treasurer’s license through OASBO’s, ODE Approved Pathway 3, or currently licensed Treasurer/CFOs wanting a refresher in budgeting and forecasting. The course provides comprehensive content in the following areas: budget development and budgeting best practices, purpose of five year forecasts, revenue and expenditure modeling, forecasting assumptions, and ODE’s role and oversight in the five year forecast.

*Each presentation is mapped to the Ohio Standards for Business Managers and Treasurers.

Agenda

Day 1

8:30 a.m.
Module 1: Appropriations & Budgeting (CPIM Pending)

9:30 a.m.
Break
 
9:45 a.m. 
Module 2: Introduction to Forecasting; and Module 3 - Enrollment Projections (CPIM Pending)

10:45 a.m.
Break

11:00 a.m.
Module 4.1: Forecasting Revenues - Local Property and Income Taxes (CPIM Pending)

12:15 p.m.
Lunch

1:00 p.m.
Module 4.2: Forecasting Revenue - Calculating & Projecting the Components of State Aid (CPIM Pending)

2:15 p.m.
Break

2:30 p.m.
Module 4.3: Revenue Forecast - Other Major Revenues (Medicaid Reimbursement; Excess Cost; Tuition; Catastrophic Aid, Etc.) (CPIM Pending)
 
3:30 p.m.
Adjourn 
 

DAY 2

8:30 a.m. 
Module 5.1: Forecasting Expenditures - Salaries and Wages; and Module 5.2: Forecasting Expenditures - Retirement and Insurance Benefits (CPIM Pending)

10:00 a.m.
Break

10:15 a.m.
Module 5.3: Forecasting Expenditures - Other Expenditures (CPIM Pending)

11:00 a.m. 
Break

11:15 a.m.
Module 5.3: Multi-Year Projections and Planning for Capital Outlay, Textbooks, Buses, and Other Major Items (CPIM Pending)

12:15 p.m. 
Lunch
 
1:00 p.m.
Module 6: Fiscal Caution, Watch, and Emergency (CPIM Pending)

2:00 p.m.
Break

2:15 p.m.
Module 7: Analytics (CPIM Pending)

3:15 p.m. 
Adjourn