Morocco Finance Inspector study plan
Morocco Finance Inspector · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.