8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00
Keynote: Results-Based Management in Government: Integrating Budget with Performance Management
Through its democratic reform initiatives, the government has put a renewed emphasis on accountability. Departments, agencies and managers are required to demonstrate both results and good stewardship. Discuss the progress of the Modern Comptrollership Initiative, the future of results-based government and its success in making government more transparent.

10:00
A Framework for Performance-Based Budgeting
- Adopt a comprehensive and integrated approach
- Identify critical success factors for performance-based budgeting
- Overcome the challenges of performance-based budgeting and pitfalls to watch out for in the implementation of framework

11:00
Break

11:15
Sound Fiscal Management and Prudent Budget Planning
- Align budget planning with performance measures to ensure economic stability
- Maintain positive fiscal management through resource allocation from successful to failing programs
- Establish efficient, transparent and cost-effective policies in fiscal management and budget planning

12:15
Lunch

1:15
Creating a Performance-Based Budget: Ten-Step Process to Integrate Performance and Budget Information
This session will examine the steps essential to creating a performance-based budget in your organization. Through this analysis, you will be able to examine your current organizational and management structure and performance plans to develop a truly performance-based budget.
Step One: Develop/Align to Strategic Plan
Step Two: Determine Outputs (by Program)
Step Three: Define Activities to Deliver Outputs
Step Four: Calculate Existing Full Costs (Direct/Indirect for Each Activity)
Step Five: Correlate New Output Costs to Intermediate Outcome
Achievements
Step Six: Achieve Cost Efficiencies through Restructuring
Step Seven: Set Targets (Revise after Budget Finalization)
Step Eight: Budget Account Restructuring/Alignment
Step Nine: Budget Justification
Step Ten: Budget Execution

3:15
Break

3:30
Instructions on Crafting a Performance Logic Model for Individual Government Programs
- Questions for defining end outcomes
- Questions for defining intermediate outcome measures
- Questions for defining program output measures

4:30
Adjourn

8:30
Continental Breakfast

9:00
Keynote: A Progress Report: Success Stories and Lessons Learned
The pilot phase of the Modern Comptrollership Initiative has been completed and the TBS has issued a report highlighting the programs strengths and
weaknesses as well as what is left to be done by departments and the TBS to continue the successful implementation of the program. Hear from experts
on the success and pitfalls of budget and performance integration and how to successfully apply it to your department.

10:00
Defining Outcome Goals and Performance Measures
- Develop a clear objective and a performance plan to ensure the success of a program and survival of the agency mission
- Promote accountability and flexibility to better align resources to department priorities
- Link clear objectives and definitive performance measures to integrated budget performance

12:00
Lunch

1:00
Cost Accounting and Budget Execution Using Performance Budgeting
Techniques
- Develop a cost management model to support strategic and performance plans
- Implement meaningful costing systems that trace costs from resources to activities to results
- Discuss results-based Management Accountability Framework and its application in performance budgets

2:45
Break

3:00
Costing to Outputs in Service of Outcomes: A Simplified Approach to
Activity-Based Costing
Many organizations in government feel that Activity-Based Costing and Management is a tool to implement performance budgeting. ABC/M can
provide managers with detailed cost, pricing and performance related data. Some think that performance integration requires overly complicated and detailed financial management systems. This need not be the case. Effective and focused implementation of an ABC/M system can provide a simple way to calculate cost-per-unit output and correlate those costs to key strategies and outcomes. In this presentation:
- Learn how to best use ABC/M within the context of your performance reports
- Discover how to integrate ABC/M into your day-today management system by “selling” benefits to leadership and managers

4:30
Adjourn

The 2004 Forum on Performance-Based Budgeting in Government will be hosted at the conveniently located Novotel in Ottawa. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a discounted rate of $125 CAD (please contact the hotel by April 1 to receive the discounted rate). Please make sure to ask for the Performance Institute conference rate when you make your reservation.

Novotel Hotel Ottawa
33 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9M7
613-230-3033
http://www.novotelottawa.com

The fee for attending Performance-Based Budgeting in Government is: