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Advanced Budgeting Course

  • Duration:1 Day
  • Cost:On request
  • Ref:AB

Enhance your budget preparation skills

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Cost £525.00 Duration 1 day Code AB

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Who is it for

This course is for those who already possess intermediate financial/budgeting skills, and wish to explore better ways of creating and managing budgets, or those with an existing accountancy qualification.

Please note: this course is run on request.

What is it about

This course goes beyond the basics of financial management to analyse in more detail what drives sales and costs, including a look at various techniques including balanced scorecard, sensitivity analysis, and some sector-specific models. You will learn how to build a budget model which makes sense for your organisation and reflects your patterns of activity. In addition to budgeting technicalities it includes management of people's behaviour to achieve performance, ensuring teams are motivated and ensuring budgets are appropriately communicated.


Course Overview

  • Modelling your organisation's activity
  • Identifying cost drivers
  • Techniques for predicting sales and income
  • Networking to improve your budget's realism
  • Floor and stretch targets
  • Bonus and incentive schemes
  • Splitting up performance into managed segments
  • Cost allocation techniques
  • Rolling out an organisational budget
  • Using spreadsheets and software
  • Balanced scorecard
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Matching the budgetary system to your kind of business
  • Presenting the budget
  • Action planning

What will I get out of it?

  • A better understanding of how to build up a budget for your organisation or department
  • Techniques to identify what drives costs in your organisation
  • Tips and tricks to improve your sales budgeting and forecasting
  • Improved ability to use your budget to encourage performance
  • Understanding of some of the newer techniques for budgeting and forecasting

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This course is accredited for CPD

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