Leadership, Ethics, and Trust

The Skills You Need for a New Era of Finance

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Page from August 2022 GFR

On the surface, public finance is about numbers—making sure that journal entries balance, creating forecasts, calculating anticipated tax revenue, monitoring spending against the budget, investing excess funds, preparing a fiscal impact analysis analyzing a new capital project… But while finance officers will always need to be able to understand and explain the numbers, public finance is really about people. To be successful, a finance officer must be able to communicate, build relationships, lead teams, navigate uncertain situations, and adapt to an everchanging world.


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