A good plan should begin with a good forecast, which in turn, may lead to a good budget. A strategy is a long-term plan of what the company is going to do to achieve its policy. The budget is the short-term plan of how strategies may be achieved. It is a quantification of the activities the company must develop to achieve its short-term plans.
objectives and carry out strategic analysis and decision-making
Understand the relationship between financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting and integration of the strategic management process with the budgeting cycle
Understand cost behavior, the use of alternative costing systems, and cost/volume/profit (CVP) analysis
Develop and prepare an operating budget and how it may be funded using the alternative sources of finance
Use various Excel models to forecast sales pricing, optimal product mix, long- and short-term sales levels
Build financial growth planning models and traditional and activity-based budget models, and improve budget accuracy
Use the techniques of budgetary control: development of product standards, flexed budgets, and variance analysis and use of the results of variance analysis to improve operational performance
Determine a company’s cost of capital and use the technique of discounted cash flow (DCF) for capital budgeting and evaluation of capital project investment, and risk analysis using the techniques of sensitivity, simulation, and scenario analysis.
Use of Excel tools to develop strategic financial models, forecasts, and budgets.
Understand the relationship between the strategy, the forecast, and the budget.
Improved budgeting decisions will increase their effectiveness within the organization.
Financial Accounting Team Members
Cost and Management Accounting Staff
Finance Professionals
Planning Managers
Commercial Managers
Capital Investment and Project Team Members
What are planning strategies?
Work with the planning cycle
Mission
Strategic analysis
Strategic choice
Strategic implementation
Corporate objectives
Corporate value and shareholder value
The agency problem and corporate governance
Planning requirements and working capital
Plan outline
Financial planning for growth
Financial modeling
Development of the key performance indicators (KPIs)
The balanced scorecard
Determine the purpose and objective of the forecast
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