Session Description: Understanding money management fundamentals like budgeting, debt, and investing impacts every part of our lives and can mean the difference between prosperity or poverty. Given economic uncertainty, an obsession with growth, and insatiable community expectations, the importance of understanding the fundamentals of managing taxpayer’s dollars and how your choices influence the prosperity or hardship of your organization has never been more important than it is today.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate today’s economic realities which require enhanced financial literacy in public parks and recreation.
Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate the importance of responsible financial management to the park and recreation profession.
Upon completion, participants will be able to evaluate the financial condition of the organization for which they work and determine approaches that can help improve their financial realities.
