Training Provider on Municipal Finance NQF Level 6

The Municipal Finance Management Programme is presented in support of all requirements of the National Treasury regulations (as stipulated in the Government Gazette) on the minimum competency levels for municipal officials. A learning-programme approach has been adopted in the programme’s development and design in order to ensure that delegates are able to learn and apply acquired skills in relation to earning credits towards the full certificate qualification.

STG Consulting Enterprise has been accredited by the LGSETA to provide training on Municipal Finance NQF Level 6. The specific outcomes of this programme are linked to the following Unit Standards:

• 116339 Apply risk management in South African municipalities
• 116340 Apply costing principles to municipal operational and service based costing
• 116342 Apply approaches to managing municipal income and expenditure within a multi-year framework
• 116343 Apply the principles of ethics in a municipal environment
• 116344 Apply the Inter-governmental Fiscal Relations Act to municipal financial management
• 116345 Apply the principles of budgeting within a municipality  116346 Apply techniques and South African statutes to cash and investment management in a municipal environment
• 116347 Contribute to capital planning and financing
• 116348 Conduct stakeholder consultation around municipal finance programmes
• 116353 Participate in the design and implementation of municipal supply chain management
• 116358 Contribute to the strategic planning process in a South African municipality
• 116362 Manage a municipality's assets and liabilities
• 116363 Prepare and analyze municipal financial reports
• 116364 Plan a municipal budgeting and reporting cycle

This course is valuable for:

• Municipal employees

• Municipal Councillors

• Supply Chain employees

What are theProgramme Outcomes?

On completion of the programme, learners will be able to:

• Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of municipal finance issues in general, and their areas of focus in particular.

• Implement well-grounded and systematically developed principles in municipal financial management
• Proffer solutions to municipal service management and delivery problems.
• Engage with the broader field of municipal finance management.
• Support as a strategic management leader in the field of municipal finance management.
• Contribute to others’ understanding of current and emerging municipal finance issues.

The Auditor General in his closing remarks as he release and an overall deterioration in the audit results of South Africa’s municipalities for 2016-17 he said the following “We have seen again and again that many of the municipal problems we have flagged, can be turned around through strong, ethical and courageous leadership in the administration and council, with the support of provincial government. Also, we have consistently and insistently advised, cautioned and at times cajoled those charged with local governance and oversight that if the basic principles of accountability, built around strong internal control and good governance, are in place, municipalities should be well geared to live up to the expectations of the communities that they serve”

As STG Consulting Enterprise we are willing to work with any Government Stakeholder in making sure that our local Government Practitioners are well oiled to carry the task of running effective, efficient and accountable as well as having strong internal controls

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