City Management

City Managemen is a business simulation, which clearly demonstrates the basics of a communal management to employees and municipal officers. Participants get acquainted with the financial and economical responsibility involved in managing a city. This simulation also introduces them to double entry bookkeeping and income and cost accounts.

Content:

In groups of 3-4 participants discover the financial and economical responsibility involved in managing a city. Over a 3 game-period they experience the transformation from a traditional to a modern form of administrating a municipality.

The simulation begins with the planning and execution of a communal accounting system. In the second year the basics of double entry bookkeeping is introduced. Participants are now able to identify economic elements apart from the evaluation of public assets. In the final stage of the simulation an income and cost account is prepared based on double entry bookkeeping procedures. The participants understand the principles and basic functionality between cost centre accounting and product costing with an insight into internal procedures in determining operating profits, cost structures and product calculation.

Participants also actively participate in Impulsive lectures understand the connection between the instruments of the new administrative model i.e. Product development, Budgeting, Indicators, Financial Controlling and the presentation of reports.

Benefits:

• Maintaining double entry bookkeeping and profit and loss accounts
• Strengthening the entrepreneurial thinking approach of employees

• Preparing government organizations for their new role in a service environment

Target groups:

• Executives of municipalities
• Employees at special levels, dealing with service and control
• Members of City-Parliaments

• Students in related majors

Duration:

1-2 Days

Number of participants:

Maximum 24

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