AFEP Bitesize Business Cases Training
Event summary
A two hour bitesize webinar covering HM Treasury’s well-established approach that provides a decision-making framework which stakeholders work through in a structured, staged manner.
An AFEP Prepaid place is required to attend this event.
Date
19 June 2024
Starts: 10:00
Ends: 12:00
Location
Webinar
Standard price
£0.00 excl VAT
Network Member Price
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About this event
The session will include practice examples covering some of the more complex and potentially contentious areas where business cases are needed, including capital projects, new delivery models and outsourcing/insourcing.
Who should attend?
Stakeholders can be at a range of seniority and from different professional disciplines. Indeed, in our experience it works well to have a range of backgrounds and views to reinforce the need for collaborative working.
How will I benefit from attending?
Provides an introduction to HM Treasury’s well-established approach that provides a decision-making framework which stakeholders work through in a structured, staged manner. It offers a chance to hear about practical examples. Also, a chance to ask a leading business case practitioner and trainer for his insights on your programmes/projects/spending initiatives.
CPD hours
Two hours.
Topics
- Financial management
- / Police
Speaker - Mark Williams CPFA FCA, Senior Consultant/Advisor, CIPFA
Mark joined CIPFA as an advisor/trainer in January 2022. The three parts to his role are: to deliver CIPFA advisory engagements including in relation to financial management, commercial skills and property/infrastructure for our clients; to support CIPFA’s policy and technical team in developing insights including on commercial and financing models, net zero and levelling up; and to deliver training including HMT’s better business case (decision-making) course.
Mark’s background is as a public services auditor, advisor and consultant. He set up and led the Government finance and accounting team for one of the Big4, and in parallel was the sponsoring partner for their public services learning programme. Then led on property/infrastructure for a consultancy. Mark is an accountant, but over the years has developed commercial, projects and property/infrastructure experience.
Mark has been involved in many energy efficiency / micro generation programmes and projects, for example he was the funding and finance advisor on the Mayor of London Retrofit Accelerator (formerly RE: FIT) programmes for almost a decade. As part of this work he has reviewed net zero strategies and property decarbonization / retrofit strategies for a number of authorities. Mark leads CIPFA regular Green Finance training events.
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