Capital Budgeting 101

By Tim Duhamel

Learn the requirements for high quality capital budgeting and planning!

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In Alberta (GFOA)

Outside Alberta

Course Content

Capital budget vs. capital plan
Capital budget structure
Annual capital process
Basics of funding – sources and how funding plans are developed
Capital budget process and timeline
Prioritizing a capital plan and criteria used
Integrating input from internal and public communication
Review of all funding sources
Review of debt as a financing source
How to build a funding plan with a strategic emphasis
Cash-flow financing; leveraging future funding sources
Capital business cases

Course Content
1. Capital budget vs. capital plan
2. Capital budget structure
3. Annual capital process
4. Basics of funding – sources and how funding plans are developed
5. Capital budget process and timeline
6. Prioritizing a capital plan and criteria used
7. Integrating input from internal and public communication
8. Review of all funding sources
9. Review of debt as a financing source
10. How to build a funding plan with a strategic emphasis
11. Cash-flow financing; leveraging future funding sources
12. Capital business cases

Course Info

Price:$175.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Budgeting

Updated: May 15, 2019

Duration: 1:34:37

Course Synopsis

Capital Budgeting 101

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.

He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.

His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

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Course Description

Understand the complexity of a municipality and the role of capital in the delivery of municipal services. Learn basic structure and differences between a capital budget and capital plan, interaction between capital budgeting, long-term planning, and tangible capital assets and asset management.

Learning Outcomes

Capital budget vs. capital plan
Learn essential principles and best practices for good capital budgeting and planning
Capital budget structure (asset category, dept, asset type, funding, etc.) – template provided!

Who Should Attend?

Any municipal financial professionals and senior executives from small, medium, or large municipalities.

All municipal financial officers will benefit from having a fundamental understanding and core knowledge of all financial processes.

Who Should Attend?

Register Today!

In Alberta (GFOA)

Outside Alberta

BLOOM can customize courses for your needs.

Some topics include:

Financial Planning & Management
- Municipal risk and opportunity reviews
- Financial condition assessments
- Budget process reviews and development
- Priority based budgeting
- Program and service costing
- Operating budget forecasting and financial solution development
- Asset management
- Capital budget development and prioritization
- Capital plan development and prioritization
- Capital plan funding strategies (debt, grants, reserves, operating budget)
- Long term financial plan development
- Municipal price inflation (MPI) development
- User fee and permit reviews
- Development levy plans
- Grant research and application support

Strategic Business Planning
- Strategic plan facilitation and development
- Business plan facilitation and development
- Situational consulting and strategy development
- Facility project plans and feasibility studies

Education & Mentorship
- CAO mentorship and education
- Finance officer mentorship and education
- Council orientation and education
- Environmental education
- Communication and writing mentorship

Project & Change Management
- Project plans
- Change management plans and facilitation
- Services reviews

Advocacy
- Representation and negotiations
- Intermunicipal agreement reviews, frameworks and facilitation
- Intermunicipal negotiations

Communications
- Communication plans and strategies
- Facility sponsorship packages
- Narrative process development (budgets, strategic plans, business plans)
- Business plan writing
- Budget communication support
- Media releases
- Media strategy
- Newsletter development
- Public survey development
- Business case development

Environment
- Environmental education
- Environmental communication plans and strategies
- Climate change adaptation plan development
- Environmental strategic planning
- Environmental grant research and support

Questions? Get in touch…

Capital Budgeting 101

Learn the requirements for high quality capital budgeting and planning!

Register Today!

Course Content

Course Info

Price:$175.00

PD Credits: 1.5

Category: Budgeting

Updated: May 15, 2019

Duration: 1:34:37

Course Synopsis

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of

Municipal Education.

He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.

His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

About the Author

Tim Duhamel is the founder and President of Bloom Centre of Municipal Education.

He is a municipal veteran whose career has spanned over 21 years.

His passion is creating educational material and conducting lectures for municipal professionals. He has lectured as far away as Kiev, Ukraine for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

Course Description

Understand the complexity of a municipality and the role of capital in the delivery of municipal services. Learn basic structure and differences between a capital budget and capital plan, interaction between capital budgeting, long-term planning, and tangible capital assets and asset management.

Also covered: basics of funding, capital budget process and timeline, integrating input from internal and public communication, review of all funding sources (risks and opportunities), review of debt as a financing source (tax and non-tax supported), and capital business cases.

Learning Outcomes

Capital budget vs. capital plan

Learn essential principles and best practices for good capital budgeting and planning

Capital budget structure (asset category, dept, asset type, funding, etc.) – template provided!

Annual capital process and how to build a process timeline for success

“Capital equation” concept explained

Learn attributes of an effective and successful process (with examples)

How to prioritize a capital plan and the criteria used to base decisions

How to build a funding plan with a strategic emphasis

Cash-flow financing; leveraging future funding sources

“Funding pool concept” – forecasting/calculate long-term funding sources

“Gap analysis concept” – how to calculate a funding gap in simple form as well as in detail (spreadsheet tool reviewed)

Who Should Attend?

Any municipal financial professionals and senior executives from small, medium, or large municipalities.

All municipal financial officers will benefit from having a fundamental understanding and core knowledge of all financial processes.

Register Today!

BLOOM can customize courses for your needs.

Some topics include:

Questions? Get in touch…