FGV and Piauí Finance Secretariat complete MBA in Public Finance Management for civil servants
The program is geared toward professional practice and aims to help improve the technical and professional skills of government employees.
On November 11, the graduation ceremony was held for employees of the Piauí State Finance Secretariat who completed the Executive MBA in Public Finance Management, taught by FGV and financed by the second edition of the Program to Support the Management of Brazilian Fiscal Employees (PROFISCO II). The event took place at the State Public Finance College in Teresina, Piauí.
“This MBA program is part of the continuous training of our civil servants, which is very important for improving the quality of the services provided by the State Finance Secretariat to all the citizens of Piauí. You are to be congratulated for completing the course and, above all, for making suggestions for improvements to our public finance administration in Piauí,” said the state finance secretary, Emílio Júnior.
The MBA was taken by 50 civil servants, including fiscal auditors and state tax agents who work in different departments of the State Finance Secretariat (UNITRAN, UNIFIS, UNITEC and GRINCOT). At the end of the program, the students presented end-of-course papers, containing suggestions for improving the State Finance Secretariat and its tax collection activities. The following innovative public finance management projects were presented:
- Using Assets to Pay Taxes: A New Approach to Tax Debt Settlement
- The Impacts of Economic Variables on ICMS Tax Revenue
- Remote Working and the Quality of Life of Government Employees
- Technological Maturity at the Piauí Finance Secretariat
- Combating Tax Evasion: The Role of Engagement by Inspection Teams
- An Objective Analysis of ICMS Tax Waivers in Piauí’s Farming Industry
- Training for employees of the Piauí State Finance Secretariat’s UNITRAN department
The MBA program is geared toward professional practice and aims to help improve the technical and professional skills of government employees while enhancing the State Finance Secretariat’s inspections and tax revenue.
“This MBA program sponsored by the Finance Secretariat is designed to train employees, improving their performance and helping them work on processes to improve public administration, whether in tax audits, information technology or inspections of goods in transit,” said Cristovam Cruz, management superintendent at the State Finance Secretariat.
During the graduation ceremony, tax auditors Orlando Barbosa Paes Filho and Luiz Eduardo Riegel were given special awards for their outstanding academic contributions during the MBA program.
“The course was important from both human and technical points of view. We came into contact with various programming and data analysis tools, and they will be very useful for all our work at the secretariat. We deal with numbers and we now have extra tools to do our work more efficiently,” said Orlando Barbosa Paes Filho.
State tax agent Lilianne Nonato, who also did the MBA, stressed the importance of training to improve her work at the secretariat. “It’s very important to always be training and acquiring new knowledge, to add value to our work. This course covered advanced knowledge in the area of technology, which nowadays is fundamental to our work in the tax service,” she said.
The MBA in Public Finance Management consists of two modules: Public Policy; and Fiscal Management and Intelligence (Data Analytics). It received funding of R$889,920 from PROFISCO II, a conditional credit line from the Inter-American Development Bank, which lends money to Brazil’s state and Federal District governments to finance projects to improve their tax, financial and asset management.
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