BSBFIN501 — Manage budgets and financial plans

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What an assessment for BSBFIN501 must cover

36 assessable components: 3 elements (13 performance criteria), 8 performance evidence and 7 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 8 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Plan financial management approaches

1.1Access budget and financial plans for work team
1.2Evaluate budget and financial plan outcomes with required organisational personnel
1.3Negotiate any changes required to be made to budget and financial plans with required organisational personnel
1.4Prepare contingency plans in the event that initial plans need to be varied

2 Implement and monitor financial management plans

2.1Communicate details of agreed budget and financial plans to relevant team members
2.2Support team members to access resources and systems to perform required roles
2.3Implement processes to monitor actual expenditure, control costs and modify contingency plans as required according to financial objectives
2.4Report on budget and expenditure according to organisational protocols

3 Review and evaluate financial management plans

3.1Collect information on effectiveness of financial management processes within work team
3.2Analyse variance between actual and budgeted finances
3.3Identify and recommend improvements to existing financial management processes
3.4Implement agreed improvements according to financial objectives of work team and organisation
3.5Evaluate agreed improvements

Performance evidence

 manage the budget and financial plan of an organisation for one reporting period.
 communicate with relevant people to clarify budget and financial plans, negotiate changes and disseminate information
 prepare, implement and modify financial contingency plans
 monitor expenditure and control costs
 support and monitor team members
 report on budget and expenditure
 review and make recommendations for improvements to financial processes
 meet record-keeping requirements for Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and for auditing purposes.

Knowledge evidence

 basic accounting principles
 types of budgets and financial plans
 legislation and current ATO requirements, including the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
 key requirements for financial record keeping and auditing
 principles for managing work teams
 principles and techniques involved in managing:  budgeting  cash flows  electronic spreadsheets  Goods and Services Tax  ledgers and financial statements  profit and loss statements
 evaluation of budget and financial plans.

Foundation skills

Numeracy:  Uses a wide range of mathematical calculations to analyse numeric information in budgets or financial plans
Oral communication:  Presents information about financial issues and requirements to a range of audiences using structure and language to suit audience  Uses active listening and questioning to clarify information and to confirm understanding
Reading:  Interprets and analyses information to determine activities required
Writing:  Records information in correct forms and prepares materials which convey detailed and factual content according to internal procedures
Teamwork:  Uses a range of strategies to connect, collaborate and cooperate with other work colleagues in activities requiring collective effort and diverse skills and knowledge
Initiative and enterprise:  Applies organisational requirements in undertaking own work
Planning and organising:  Uses logical processes in planning, implementing and evaluating complex tasks and developing alternative strategies to achieve goals and timelines
Technology:  Uses a range of digital technologies to access, filter, compile, integrate and logically present complex information from multiple sources

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