CALL FOR APPLICATONS

Specialised Training on Financial Management and Budgetary Control for CSOs in West Africa

14 – 16 August, 2012 at the WACSI Training Centre, Accra, Ghana

LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE: ONLY 25 participants

The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) invites you to apply for a specialised training on Financial Management and Budgetary Control. This module will enable you to develop robust financial & accounting systems, and to effectively evaluate your organisation’s overall objective.

WACSI, in collaboration with the IFC, uniquely designed this course to strengthen the skills of various financial managers within CSOs to make strategic, influential and effective contributions to the overall success and progress of their organisations.

Benefits: The training will provide you with new knowledge and skills to define the ‘cost’ concept, identify different types of costs, analyze cost variance and use tools for controlling costs that will boost your individual and organizational productivity levels. You will also be awarded with an internationally recognized certificate issued by WACSI and the IFC’s Business Edge Programme.

What to Expect: This course is specifically tailored to strengthen the financial managerial skills of financial managers, officers and programme staff of CSOs. It is streamlined to enhance your functional skills in three key areas that will enable you to be:

·  Understand and interpret financial statements;

·  A good analyst of cost variance;

·  An effective user of cost controlling tools; and

·  A more effective financial manager.

How to Apply?

To apply online, visit http://wacsi.org/en/site/programmes/174/Financial-Management-and-Budgetary-Control.htm or

Kindly fill, sign and email the attached application form to

Application Deadline: Friday 19 July, 2013

Contribution Fee: Course contribution fees of GHC600.00 (Six Hundred Ghana Cedis) only are to be paid by August 2, 2013 to be eligible to participate in the training. Early fee payments are encouraged and attract the following discounts:

Only 25 participants are expected for this training.

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