How budgets are set out, the parts they contain, and where the figures come from.
How funds move from approval to release to department and programme.
How spending is recorded and how records compare with the original allocation.
How findings from a spending cycle lead to public questions.
Three stages, in order.
Participants read budget documents and learn where each part of the record comes from.
Participants follow a single allocation through release and into a department or programme.
Participants prepare the questions that follow from a spending cycle they have tracked.