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Morocco Finance Inspector study plan

Morocco Finance Inspector · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Public finance and budget law (finances publiques, loi organique relative à la loi de finances)

  • Reconstruct the architecture of the loi organique relative à la loi de finances (LOLF) from memory: chapters, actors, and the annual budget cycle calendar.

  • Explain in writing the difference between loi de finances, loi de finances rectificative, and loi de règlement, with the constitutional and organic articles that govern each.

  • Map the roles of Parliament, the Government, the Ministry of Finance, and the Cour des comptes in the budget process onto a single timeline diagram.

  • Draft 20 flashcards on key budget-law vocabulary (crédits d'engagement, crédits de paiement, autorisation, ordonnancement, contrôle a priori).

Your checkpoint

A one-page hand-drawn budget-cycle timeline plus a 20-card vocabulary deck, self-tested with 80% recall.

Week 2

Public finance and budget law (finances publiques, loi organique relative à la loi de finances) & General knowledge of public administration, governance, and Moroccan institutions

  • Solve 30 budget-law scenario questions (procedures, deadlines, control mechanisms) and log every error with the governing rule.

  • Summarize the principles of public finance (annualité, unité, universalité, spécialité, sincérité) and give one concrete violation example for each.

  • Describe the institutional chain of public expenditure control in Morocco, naming each body and its mandate.

  • Compare the Moroccan budget-law framework with the broad OECD principles of budgetary governance in a short comparative note.

Your checkpoint

An error log of all missed questions with corrected rules, plus a 300-word comparative note on budgetary governance.

Week 3

General economics and macroeconomic policy

  • Build a concept map linking GDP, inflation, unemployment, and the balance of payments, and explain each transmission channel aloud.

  • Derive and interpret the main macroeconomic aggregates (GDP by expenditure and by income, GNI, national savings) using a worked numerical example.

  • Explain the objectives and instruments of monetary policy and the role of Bank Al-Maghrib in a written summary.

  • Analyze the main channels of fiscal and monetary policy transmission and their limits in an open, pegged-exchange-rate economy.

Your checkpoint

A worked numerical exercise computing GDP by two methods and reconciling the results, plus a one-page concept map.

Week 4

General economics and macroeconomic policy & Public finance and budget law (finances publiques, loi organique relative à la loi de finances)

  • Interpret a standard IS-LM and AD-AS framework to predict short-run effects of a fiscal expansion, and write the reasoning step by step.

  • Explain the main macroeconomic policy debates in Morocco (subsidies, investment, employment) using data from official reports.

  • Re-solve 25 mixed budget-law and macro questions under timed conditions and compare accuracy with week 2.

  • Summarize the links between the national budget, public debt sustainability, and the macroeconomic framework in a two-page note.

Your checkpoint

A timed 25-question mock scored and reviewed, plus a two-page note on budget, debt, and macro framework.

Week 5

Public law: constitutional law, administrative law, and administrative institutions

  • Outline the Moroccan constitutional architecture: the 2011 Constitution, separation of powers, and the role of the King as arbiter.

  • Distinguish the competences of the legislative and executive branches and the constitutional review mechanisms, with article references.

  • Explain the organization, jurisdiction, and procedure of the administrative courts, including the recours pour excès de pouvoir.

  • Classify administrative acts (unilateral vs contractual, individual vs regulatory) and identify the applicable legal regime for each.

Your checkpoint

A structured outline of constitutional and administrative law with at least 15 article-level references, self-quizzed.

Week 6

Accounting, financial analysis, and management control & Taxation (fiscalité) and public revenue

  • Prepare the three core financial statements from a trial balance and compute the main ratios of liquidity, solvency, and profitability.

  • Explain cost accounting methods (full costing, variable costing, ABC) and apply one method to a short case.

  • Build a simple management-control dashboard with variance analysis (budget vs actual) for a public entity.

  • Summarize the main Moroccan taxes (IR, IS, TVA, registration duties) with their base, rate structure, and key procedural rules.

Your checkpoint

A completed case file: financial statements, ratio table, variance analysis, and a one-page tax summary.

Week 7

Taxation (fiscalité) and public revenue & Quantitative methods: statistics and applied mathematics for economics

  • Solve 20 tax calculation problems (IR brackets, IS, TVA) and verify each result against the official rate schedule.

  • Explain the principles of tax administration and taxpayer rights in Morocco in a short written summary.

  • Apply descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard deviation, index numbers) to a small economic dataset and interpret the output.

  • Use probability and basic regression concepts to interpret a simple economic relationship, and state the limits of the inference.

Your checkpoint

A statistics problem set with worked solutions plus a 20-question tax calculation sheet with correct answers.

Week 8

Public finance and budget law (finances publiques, loi organique relative à la loi de finances) & General economics and macroeconomic policy & Public law: constitutional law, administrative law, and administrative institutions & Accounting, financial analysis, and management control & Taxation (fiscalité) and public revenue & General knowledge of public administration, governance, and Moroccan institutions & Quantitative methods: statistics and applied mathematics for economics

  • Complete two full timed mock exams covering all seven domains and score each domain separately.

  • Review every missed item and write the correct rule or formula next to it to build a personal revision sheet.

  • Rehearse oral-style answers to five likely interview questions on public finance and administration.

  • Consolidate a final one-page cheat sheet of formulas, dates, and article numbers for last-minute review.

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams with a domain-by-domain score table, an error-review sheet, and a final one-page cheat sheet.

Milestones

Week 2: Score at least 70% on a 30-question budget-law set and show an error log where every mistake is tied to a specific rule.

Week 4: Score at least 65% on a mixed budget-law and macro timed mock, and produce the debt-sustainability note.

Week 6: Produce complete financial statements and ratios from a trial balance with no arithmetic errors, and explain the four main Moroccan taxes from memory.

Week 8: Score at least 75% overall on both full mocks, with no domain below 60%, and submit the final cheat sheet.