Course Description
This Online Budgeting & Forecasting training course provides an overview of the essential tools and the skills to build world-class standards into your planning, budgeting, performance measurement & reporting system, looking at new and best practice techniques, explain how they complement the traditional financial planning tools, and introducing new concepts for measuring and reporting performance to enhance shareholder wealth creation or provide value for money for Stakeholders.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Implementation of planning
- Implementation of control techniques into your budgeting process
- Integration of the budgeting process with the company’s strategic vision
- Creation of decision support structure for decision-makers.
- Successfully build integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
- Forecasting costs and revenues.
- Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals
- Effectively manage the budgeting process
- Identify key performance indicators for effective and focused decision making
- Increase profitability and performance through streamlined planning and reporting
Who Should Attend?
- All professionals responsible for budget preparation and management reporting
- Who requires a more understanding of integrated planning and budgeting techniques,
- Who wants to understand more about Financial planning and cost analysis
- Anyone with direct planning and budgeting responsibility,
- Managers, budget holders, advisors, accountants, and business consultants.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
- Budgets in Today’s International Environment
- Defining the strategic approach to business planning
- Defining strategic assumptions
- The recognition of risk in Models
- Using Budget Models for Simulation Purposes
- Building the strategic planning model using financial data
- Analyzing the Historical Data Using Excel
- Approaches to Budget Development
- Types of Budgets
- Defining Key Cost Drivers
- Defining Key Activities
- Strategic and Operational Cost Analysis Techniques
- Defining and Testing Optimisation Techniques in Models Using Excel