3 Hours
Understanding the Expenditure Management System
Description
- Understanding the Expenditure Management System will give you practical tips and strategies for understanding, addressing and working with the reporting and accountability requirements of the current Expenditure Management System (EMS) that is an essential element in developing and delivering programs, policies, and services to Canadians.
- With our highly rated and knowledgeable facilitators, you will explore how the EMS provides a framework in the Government of Canada for developing and implementing federal expenditure plans and how it furnishes the evidence needed to allocate monies to key government priorities through the fiscal and budget processes.
- You will identify how the EMS is intended to ensure value for money for all government spending and learn about the implementation of strategic reviews to identify and to reallocate funds from lower priority and lower performing program activities to higher priority, higher-performing activities.
- This half-day webinar is designed for you as a public servant at any level who needs to learn about and review the Expenditure Management System.
Certificate in Policy and Governance
This course is part of the Certificate in Policy and Governance offered by the institute. While there are no formal prerequisites for this course, we highly recommend that you consider taking the preceding courses or familiarizing yourself with their content. This background knowledge will greatly enhance your learning experience. Please be aware that the instructor may not revisit these earlier topics in order to allocate ample time for the current material.
Learning Objectives:
- You will explore the history and rationale of the federal expenditure process.
- You will learn about the products, including the Budget and Estimates, and the processes that support the EMS.
- You will learn about the roles of the Executive Branch (departments, Cabinet) and Legislative Branch (Parliament) in developing and reviewing federal spending plans.
- You will understand the role of the Auditor General of Canada.
- You will learn about the role and expectations of Deputy Ministers and Departments.
- You will learn about the accountability tests being applied to federal spending and related rationales and expectations of central agencies.
- You will learn how organizations identify savings to meet expenditure management commitments.
- You will learn how to work with the cycles, processes, critical elements, from inception to reporting and strategic review.
- You will understand who makes the decisions and how can they be supported and/or influenced.
Facilitators
Guy Boyd has broad federal public service experience having worked in six different departments in such varied functions as: policy development; planning, reporting, and performance measurement; business case development; provision of advice to ministers and deputy heads; quasi-judicial case management; operational and corporate management; and, training design and delivery (including a stint at the Canada School where he revised and delivered its popular course How Ottawa Works).
Of particular relevance to Central Agency courses, Guy worked for over ten years at the Treasury Board Secretariat as a program sector analyst, director, and executive director. During this time he reviewed and developed advice to ministers on over 500 Treasury Board submissions; worked with other Central Agency colleagues on government-wide initiatives, such as the response to the terrorist events of 9-11, the Economic Action Plan to address the financial crisis of 2008-2009, and various Memoranda to Cabinet; assessed and found solutions to departmental funding pressures and management challenges; and, led Treasury Board Secretariat assessment of program and spending reviews such as the Deficit Reduction Action Plan and Strategic Reviews. Guy was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 in recognition of this work.
Recently retired from the Public Service, Guy remains passionate about public administration and the constructive contributions all public servants can make on behalf of Canadians. To this end, as a consultant and certified coach, he now focuses on supporting public servants through:
- Coaching current and aspiring public service executives (primarily through the Public Service Commission’s Executive Counselling Services) in areas such as career planning, miscellaneous personal and management issues, and competition preparation
- Developing, customizing, and delivering training and development courses and materials
- Writing and developing Treasury Board Submissions, planning documents, reports, and business cases of all kinds
- Helping managers and their teams develop written briefing skills
Linda Savoie, after a somewhat dispersed early career that includes time as a military officer, an aircraft mechanic, a lawyer, an airline manager and a museum educator, Linda stumbled upon the federal public service in the mid-90s.
There she discovered opportunities to influence policy development and implementation in areas of interest such as climate change, civic engagement, and gender equality. For some 25 years, whether at Transport Canada, the Privy Council Office, Canadian Heritage, Status of Women Canada, or Library and Archives Canada, Linda worked closely, as an executive, with Deputy Ministers, Ministers, and political staff.
While all challenges were interesting, she is particularly thankful for having been able to explore the power of partnerships and alliances in advancing gender equality and the role of libraries and archives in community vitality. Since her retirement in 2022, when not skiing or cycling, she continues to serve as Past Chair of the Carlington Community Health Center and assists the board of a new foundation in developing its governance.
