Line 03 — Services

Three ways to work through public spending documents

Each service is built entirely on lawfully published material and paced to your own schedule.

03–01 Budget Reading 03–02 Audit Interpretation 03–03 Investigation Programme

County budget papers laid out on a table

03–01 /

County Budget Reading Session

A session on reading county budget documents with confidence. Covers how an appropriation is structured, the difference between allocated, disbursed and reported spending, following a single programme across two financial years, and the published documents that record each stage. Attention throughout to describing figures precisely in text.

What's included

– One 100-minute session
– Budget papers from a county of your choosing
– A written reading guide
– A note of that county's publication pattern

KES 1,700

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Audit Report Interpretation

Guidance on working with published audit reports as a documentary source. Covers what an audit opinion actually states, the difference between a query and a finding, following a query through to any published management response, and reporting audit material in language that matches its status. Aimed at reporters who quote audit documents without always reading them fully.

What's included

– Two sessions of 75 minutes
– Reports relevant to your beat
– A written interpretation framework

KES 2,650

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03–03 /

Public Spending Investigation Programme

A structured programme for building an inquiry into public expenditure from published records alone. Covers assembling budget papers, procurement notices, audit reports and progress reports into one indexed picture, identifying where the documents disagree, approaching the relevant offices for comment with adequate time, and writing findings in measured terms.

What's included

– Four sessions of one hour over two months
– Your material reviewed at each stage
– An indexed evidence matrix

KES 3,850

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Line 09 — Fee Schedule

Fee schedule

03–01 County Budget Reading Session KES 1,700

03–02 Audit Report Interpretation KES 2,650

03–03 Public Spending Investigation Programme KES 3,850

Subtotal — training services, current schedule

Line 10 — Process

How an engagement runs

Step 1

A short written exchange about your beat and the material you already have.

Step 2

We agree a schedule of sessions that fits your newsroom's calendar.

Step 3

Sessions run through the documents together, at a pace you can follow.

Step 4

You leave with written guides and, for the programme, an indexed matrix.

Not sure which session fits your beat? Write to us and we'll talk it through.