H.M. TREASURY

AAT DIPLOMA IN GOVERNMENT FINANCE

SKILLS CHECKLIST

Contributing to the Management of Costs and Enhancement of Value

Do you produce data used to analyse the cost of the fixed overheads of the business ?
Do you operate a system for recording costing information e.g. materials, labour or expenses ?
Are you involved in the review of work processes in order to identify improvements or efficiencies ?
Are you involved in the monitoring of key performance indicators (PSAs) or benchmarking ?
Are you required to produce information used in the costing of objectives for RAB purposes ?
Do you prepare standard cost reports ?
Are you involved in the costing of business plans and objectives ?

Contributing to the Planning and Allocation of Resources

Do you produce information that is used in the preparation of annual budgets ?
Do you reconcile budget figures to current expenditure/resource budgets ?
Do you provide variance analysis and explanations ?
Do you produce budget reports from accounting systems (or spreadsheets) giving details of current expenditure, budget allocations and forecasts ?
Are you required to liaise with budget managers and holders about their budget information ?
Do you produce accrual and prepayment information ?
Are you involved in the preparation and allocation of budgets ?

Drafting Financial Statements (Central Government)

Do you prepare information which is then incorporated into the main RAB schedules and statements ?
Do you calculate the cost of capital charges and the resulting impact they will have on the RAB financial statements ?
Do you prepare resource budget baselines ?
Do you prepare reconciliations statements between cash based accounts and accruals/resource accounts ?
Do you prepare accrual accounts ?

If you have any comments or suggestions regarding the skills checklist please contact :

Roberta Woodcock, DART, HM Treasury, 4th Floor Allington Towers, 19 Allington Street, London SW1E 5EB
Tel: 020 7270-1746