برنامج تدريبي في الإدارة المالية للمؤسسات الصحية في تبليسي

نظرة عامة على البرنامج

Hospitals, clinics, health agencies and ministries are expected to deliver safe, high-quality care while keeping their finances sustainable over many years. Every management decision, from staffing a ward to buying equipment, has a financial consequence that sound financial management makes visible in advance.

Public health spending has grown quickly in many countries, and Georgia is a clear example. The 2022 PEFA assessment of Georgia’s public finances shows the healthcare share of consolidated budget expenditure rising from 9.2% in 2019 to 10.9% in 2020 and 13.4% in 2021. The IMF’s fiscal transparency work notes that health’s share of general government spending rose from about 5% to 13% between 2002 and 2021, and that long-term health cost pressures need fuller analysis.

At the same time, accounting rules for public entities are changing. Georgia’s budgetary organisations have reported on accrual-based standards derived from IPSAS since 2020 for central entities and 2021 for municipalities, and the IPSAS Board’s new standards on revenue (IPSAS 47) and transfer expenses (IPSAS 48) took effect on 1 January 2026. These standards change how grants, insurance-type payments and service contracts are recognised, which matters directly to public hospitals and health purchasers.

Financial Management for Health Institutions Training in Tbilisi brings these threads together over five practical days. It covers the economics and financing of health systems, health accounts, budgeting and cash flow, service costing and pricing, provider payment, financial statements and reporting, financial analysis for decisions, and the controls and audit expectations that protect public money.

The programme is designed for both finance staff and the clinical and administrative managers who make spending decisions. Participants build costing and budget models they can adapt at home.

يعزز البرنامج القدرات المؤسسية في

• Health financing functions: revenue collection, pooling and purchasing
• Programme-based budgeting for health ministries and agencies
• Cash-flow forecasting and working capital management
• Direct and indirect cost allocation for health services
• Unit costing of procedures, bed-days and outpatient visits
• Pricing and tariff analysis for publicly purchased services
• Case-based and other provider payment methods
• Accrual-based financial statements for health entities
• Recognition of grants, transfers and service revenue under current IPSAS
• Financial ratio and performance analysis
• Economic evaluation of health programmes
• Internal control over payments, procurement and inventories
• Preparation for external audit and audit follow-up
• Donor-funded health project financial management

The aim is a finance function that clinical leaders trust and use, where budgets, costs and reports support better care rather than sitting apart from it.

The Growing Importance of Financial Management in Health Institutions

Health now absorbs a larger share of public budgets than it did a decade ago, and governments are asking what they receive for that money. In Georgia, statistics on the main health programmes of the ministry responsible for health are published monthly by the Social Service Agency and the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health, and the State Audit Office carried out performance audits of the ministry’s programmes between 2019 and 2021.

Reporting rules are tightening too. The IFAC and CIPFA International Public Sector Financial Accountability Index 2025 projects that 56% of jurisdictions will report on an accrual basis by 2030, and that 81% of those will base their reporting on IPSAS. For health entities, accrual reporting brings equipment, leases, receivables, payables and employee obligations onto the balance sheet, and with them a need for better asset registers and costing.

تحتاج المؤسسات بشكل متزايد إلى مهنيين قادرين على:

• Explaining how health financing arrangements shape an institution’s revenue
• Reading national health expenditure data and comparing it with peers
• Preparing realistic budgets linked to service volumes and outputs
• Forecasting cash needs month by month
• Calculating the full cost of a service, department or programme
• Separating fixed, variable, direct and indirect costs correctly
• Assessing whether tariffs and payment rates cover real costs
• Preparing and interpreting accrual-based financial statements
• Applying current IPSAS requirements on revenue, transfers, leases and assets
• Using financial ratios to spot risk early
• Designing internal controls proportionate to risk
• Responding to audit findings with credible action plans

Strong financial management systems help organisations:

• Protect service continuity when funding is delayed or reduced
• Allocate resources to the services with the greatest health benefit
• Negotiate with purchasers using evidence on costs
• Reduce waste in supplies, pharmaceuticals and overtime
• Plan equipment replacement and maintenance on time
• Earn clean audit opinions and public confidence
• Meet the financial reporting conditions of donors and lenders
• Link spending to measurable results

The gains come from consistent habits: a costing model kept up to date, a cash forecast reviewed weekly and statements that managers actually read.

Who Should Attend This Health Financial Management Training?

صُمم هذا البرنامج من أجل:

• Chief financial officers and finance directors of hospitals
• Hospital and clinic general managers
• Middle and senior health managers responsible for programme administration
• Budget and planning officers in ministries of health
• Finance staff of health insurance funds and purchasing agencies
• Accountants in public and private health facilities
• Clinical heads of department who manage budgets
• Financial management specialists in health project implementation units
• Internal auditors working in the health sector
• Health economists and policy analysts
• Procurement and supply managers in health institutions
• Officials of ministries of finance covering the health sector
• Administrators and consultants who manage health project budgets

No advanced accounting background is required. Non-financial managers gain confidence with numbers, while finance professionals deepen health-specific practice.

Health Financial Management Training Objectives

Upon successful completion of this Health Financial Management Training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the economic and financial drivers of health systems, including market failure and the public-private mix
• Compare tax-funded, social insurance, private insurance and direct payment financing models
• Use health accounts data to describe who pays for health care and for what
• Prepare an annual budget and a cash-flow budget for a health institution
• Allocate direct and indirect costs and calculate unit costs for key services
• Assess prices, tariffs and user fees, including exemption mechanisms
• Describe how provider payment methods change incentives and financial risk
• Prepare and interpret the main accrual-based financial statements
• Apply current IPSAS requirements relevant to health entities
• Analyse financial performance with ratios and variance analysis
• Carry out a simple economic evaluation of a health programme
• Strengthen internal controls and prepare for external audit

Each objective is linked to a workshop output that participants take home.

محتوى البرنامج وهيكله

Health Financial Management Training Methodology

The programme uses adult learning methods that keep participants working with numbers and real situations for most of each day.

يجمع البرنامج بين:

• Short expert presentations on each topic
• Open discussion of participants’ own institutions
• Numerical examples worked step by step
• Spreadsheet-based budgeting and costing exercises
• Case studies drawn from public reports on real health systems
• Group and individual assignments
• Role plays with purchasers, boards and auditors
• مراجعة الأقران لمخرجات الفرق
• A field visit to a health or public finance institution, where confirmed
• A capstone plan for each participant’s own institution

Facilitators combine finance and health management experience.

الزيارات الفنية والبرنامج الميداني

The programme includes a half-day technical visit in Tbilisi to a health facility, health agency or public finance institution, to see how budgeting, costing and reporting work in practice. Visits are confirmed with host organisations closer to the programme dates.

النتائج المتوقعة

Upon completion of this Health Financial Management Training, participants will be able to:

• Prepare a volume-driven budget and a monthly cash-flow forecast
• Calculate unit costs for core services and explain the results to clinicians
• Judge whether tariffs and payment methods cover costs and share risk fairly
• Read and explain accrual-based financial statements of a health entity
• Identify which current IPSAS requirements affect their institution
• Use ratios and variance analysis to report financial performance
• Build a simple economic case for a service change
• Strengthen controls in high-risk areas such as medicines and payroll
• Present a practical improvement plan to their management

Participants return with working spreadsheets, a costing template and an action plan that their institution can adopt immediately.

Institutional Application of Health Financial Management Training

يدعم هذا البرنامج المؤسسات في تعزيز:

• Budget preparation and approval processes
• Cash management and liquidity planning
• Cost accounting and service costing systems
• Negotiation with purchasers and insurers
• Accrual-based financial reporting
• Asset registers and equipment planning
• Management reporting to boards and ministries
• الرقابة الداخلية وإدارة المخاطر
• Audit readiness and follow-up
• Evidence-based investment decisions

يعود المشاركون بأدوات عملية لتحسين:

• Annual budget templates linked to activity
• Monthly cash-flow forecasts
• Step-down cost allocation models
• Unit cost and tariff comparison sheets
• Financial ratio dashboards
• Accrual adjustment checklists
• Internal control self-assessments
• Audit action plan trackers

Institutions that want to measure their starting point can use Risalat’s free institutional capacity assessment or training needs assessment before nominating participants.

الأهمية الإقليمية والتطبيق

أوروبا

Across Europe and Central Asia, finance ministries are working with sector ministries to extend accrual reporting and treasury coverage. In May 2025 Georgia’s Ministry of Finance hosted a PEMPAL treasury study visit in Tbilisi attended by officials from 16 countries, which shows the region’s interest in Georgia’s experience. Health institutions in the region face the same task of connecting their costing and budgets to these new reporting systems.

أفريقيا

Kenya’s National Treasury gazetted the national government’s move to accrual-based IPSAS in 2024, with the first accrual financial statements expected for the year ending 30 June 2025, and stated that the transition also applies to county governments. Counties deliver much of Kenya’s health care, so hospital finance teams there need accrual, asset and costing skills of the kind covered in this programme.

الشرق الأوسط

Saudi Arabia has pursued a phased move from cash to accrual accounting since 2017 under Vision 2030, coordinated by an accrual accounting centre within the Ministry of Finance, according to a World Bank account of the reform. Large public health systems in the Gulf and the wider region are reporting on new bases and need managers who can use accrual data for decisions.

آسيا

Central Asian countries including Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan took part in the 2025 Tbilisi treasury study visit. Health ministries there increasingly need reliable service costing as purchasing arrangements develop.

In every region the core skills are the same: budgeting from activity, knowing service costs and reporting on an accrual basis.

نبذة عن البلد المضيف – جورجيا

Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and offers modern business facilities, a good range of hotels and moderate costs for a five-day programme.

Georgia is a useful benchmark for public financial management. It ranked first of 125 countries for budget transparency in the 2023 Open Budget Survey with a score of 87 out of 100, according to the Ministry of Finance. Its budgetary organisations moved to accrual-based standards derived from IPSAS from 2020, and its Treasury Single Account has been extended over time to municipalities, public law entities and other units. Health is now one of the largest areas of its public spending, which makes the country’s experience directly relevant to health finance managers.

Tbilisi International Airport has regular connections with Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Citizens of many countries can enter Georgia without a visa for short stays, while others apply for an e-visa or a visa in advance. Entry rules change from time to time, so participants should check the official guidance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia; Risalat provides visa support letters and advice on request.

Health Financial Management Training Deliverables

Every participant receives preparation, learning and follow-up support, with tools designed for health institutions.

قبل البرنامج

• التقييم المسبق للمشاركين
• Health Financial Management Readiness Assessment
• Health Financial Management Resource Pack
• مواد قراءة تحضيرية
• دعم واستشارات مجانية بشأن التأشيرة
• الاستقبال من المطار والمساعدة عند الوصول
• إقامة مع الإفطار
• عشاء ترحيبي للتعارف

أثناء البرنامج

• حقيبة Risalat التدريبية (حقيبة، وقارورة، وكوب، وقميص، وقبعة، وغلاف جواز سفر، وأقلام، ودفتر، ومغناطيس وميدالية مفاتيح)
• Comprehensive Health Financial Management Training Manual
• Hospital Budget and Cash-Flow Template
• Step-Down Cost Allocation Model
• Unit Cost and Tariff Comparison Tool
• Financial Ratio Dashboard
• Accrual Adjustment Checklist for Health Entities
• Internal Control Self-Assessment for Health Institutions
• ورش عمل عملية ومحاكاة
• مناقشات جماعية وتعلم من الأقران
• غداء ومرطبات يومية
• الاستفادة الكاملة من مرافق مكان التدريب
• جهاز Mini Pad / جهاز لوحي مزود بمواد تعليمية رقمية
• زيارة ميدانية (حسب الاقتضاء)
• جولة ترفيهية في المدينة

بعد البرنامج

• شهادة الإتمام
• جائزة Risalat تقديراً للمشاركة في البرنامج
• مواد مرجعية بعد التدريب
• Institutional Financial Improvement Plan Template
• Health Costing Reference Guide
• IPSAS Update Note for Health Entities
• الدعم بعد التدريب وإرشادات المتابعة
• تقرير البرنامج

Ministries, hospitals, insurance funds and project teams can also request a tailored in-house version of this programme, built around their own budgets, cost data and reporting requirements. Please request a proposal and our team will respond with a design and quotation.

Common Challenges in Health Financial Management, And How This Training Helps

How can a hospital plan when health spending is growing but payments arrive late?

Growing budgets do not guarantee timely cash. Day 2 shows how to build a volume-driven budget and a monthly cash-flow forecast, test it against payment delays and agree priority payments in advance.

How can managers find out what a service really costs?

Many institutions know total spending but not the cost of a bed-day or procedure. Day 3 walks through cost centres, step-down allocation and unit costing using a practical spreadsheet model.

How can an institution show a purchaser that a tariff is too low?

Negotiation needs evidence. Day 3 compares unit costs with tariffs and explains how different payment methods shift financial risk, so teams can make a reasoned case.

How do the new IPSAS standards on revenue and transfers affect health entities?

IPSAS 47 and IPSAS 48 took effect on 1 January 2026 and change how grants and transfers are recognised. Day 4 explains what this means for hospitals, purchasers and programme budgets.

How can a health entity move from cash records to accrual statements?

Incomplete asset registers and missing payables data are common obstacles, as Georgia’s own reform reports show. The Day 4 case study practises the key adjustments step by step.

How can finance teams make reports that clinical managers use?

Reports often go unread because they are too technical. Days 4 and 5 cover ratio dashboards and simple presentation techniques for boards and department heads.

How can institutions respond to qualified audit opinions?

Day 5 covers internal control in high-risk areas, audit preparation and practical action plans that address findings rather than repeating them each year.

How can a manager justify investing in a new service or piece of equipment?

Day 3 introduces investment planning and Day 5 covers simple economic evaluation, so participants can present costs, benefits and risks in a form decision-makers accept.

الأسئلة الشائعة

Do I need an accounting background to attend?

No. The programme is designed for both finance staff and non-financial managers such as doctors and department heads. Concepts are explained from first principles and practised with guided exercises.

Does the programme cover the latest IPSAS changes?

Yes. Day 4 covers the standards most relevant to health entities, including IPSAS 47 Revenue and IPSAS 48 Transfer Expenses, which took effect on 1 January 2026, as well as IPSAS 43 Leases and IPSAS 45 Property, Plant and Equipment.

Will we work with real data?

Participants work with realistic hospital and programme datasets and case studies based on published public finance reports. You are welcome to bring anonymised data from your own institution for the workshops.

هل توجد زيارة ميدانية؟

A half-day technical visit to a health or public finance institution in Tbilisi is planned. Visits are confirmed with host organisations closer to the programme dates.

هل يمكن تقديم البرنامج داخل المؤسسة؟

Yes. Ministries, hospitals, insurance funds and project units can request a tailored in-house version built around their own budgets, cost data and reporting rules.

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