This course aims to:

• explain the key concepts, core issues, principles, and processes in urban finance and budgeting;
• understand the objectives of urban financial and budgeting management and detect the problems and shortfalls of traditional approaches of urban financial management and budgeting;
• analyze past and current trends in financial and budgetary management reforms happening in both Hong Kong and international cities;
• understand the practice and issues of urban financial and budgeting management in Hong Kong and other big cities with a view to critically evaluating them with the relevant knowledge and techniques.