Advanced Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning

Advanced Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning

OBJECTIVES

• Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
• Understand costs behavior more accurately
• Deliver more timely and useful information to decision makers
• Improve you the budgeting/financial skills required for better decision-making, whether for your continuing business or project or a new business venture Explain typical costing and budgeting terminology used in business

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Chief Financial Officers who want to use the most advanced budgeting tools
• Treasurers who need to go beyond the traditional budgeting tools
• Controllers who want to go beyond budgeting limitations
• Any senior manager who wants to improve the accuracy of their financial plans and budget

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1

Budgets and Strategy in Today’s International Environment

• Organizational planning framework
• The product / information / decision support cycle
• Strategic, tactical, and operational forecasts
• The strategic approach to business planning
• Various strategic and tactical approaches to business planning
• The international business environment

Day 2

The Business Plan and Budget Development

• Developing the business plan
• Identification of key value drivers
• Achieving objectives
• Zero base budgeting
• Activity based budgeting
• Rolling budgets
• Developing the Cash Budget

Day 3

Analyzing the Applicability of Historical Data Using Excel®

• Problems of forecasting
• Using historical data to help predict the future
• Forecasting
• Sales volume
• Development of Time Series Models using histograms, moving averages, exponential smoothing, and regression analysis
• Using Regression Analysis as a predictor and estimator
• Mastering the use of Exponential Smoothing as a Data Analysis tool

Day 4

Using Activity-Based Budgeting and Cost Analysis Techniques

• Cost behavior and breakeven analysis
• Activity based costing
• Budgeting for Processes rather than Departments
• Defining Key Cost Drivers
• Defining Key Activities
• Developing the Activity-Based Budget

Day 5

Capital Budgeting and Project Appraisal

• Identify the various types of capital projects
• Discuss the capital project evaluation process
• The impact time has on the value of money
• Using WACC and ROIC as benchmarks
• Determining the initial and subsequent capital project cash flows
• Development of the “Hurdle Rate” for capital projects
• Evaluate capital projects by applying NPV, IRR, ARR Payback models