Two of the most crucial responsibilities that give direction and financial goals for a corporation are forecasting and budgeting. This Advanced Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting program gives a broad overview of the necessary tools and abilities to incorporate world-class standards into your planning, budgeting, performance measurement, and reporting system. It also introduces fresh ideas for measuring and reporting performance in order to increase shareholder wealth creation or deliver value for money.

Training Objectives

By the Advanced Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting course, delegates will be able to understand:

• Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals
• Develop ways to increase profitability and performance through streamlined planning and reporting
• Effectively manage the budgeting process
• How to implement advanced planning and control techniques into your budgeting process
• Identify key performance indicators for effective and focused decision making
• Know how to forecast costs and revenues with greater confidence
• Know how to integrate the budgeting process with the development of the company’s long-term strategic vision
• Know how to provide a decision support structure that provides timely and useful information to decision makers
• Successfully build integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process

TARGET AUDIENCE

• All professionals responsible for budget preparation and management reporting
• All process owners who require a more in-depth understanding of integrated planning and budgeting techniques,
• Personnel wanting to understand more about Financial planning and cost analysis
• Anyone with direct planning and budgeting responsibility, as well as managers, budget holders, advisors, accountants and business consultants

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