Certified Budget Planner Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting
Certified Budget Planner: Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting
OBJECTIVES
- Implement advanced planning and control techniques into your budgeting process
- Integrate the budgeting process with the development of the company’s long-term strategic vision
- Provide a decision support structure that provides timely and useful information to decision makers
- Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
- Forecast costs and revenues with greater confidence
- Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals
- Effective manage the budgeting process
- Identify key performance indicators for effective and focused decision making
- Increase profitability and performance through stream lined planning and reporting
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Professionals responsible for budget preparation and management reporting
- Process owners who require a more in-depth understanding of integrated planning and budgeting techniques, along with Financial planners and cost analysts
- Anyone with direct planning and budgeting responsibility, as well as advisors, accountants and business consultants
COURSE OUTLINE
DAY 1
Budgets in Today’s International environment
- Organizational Planning and Control Framework
- The Product / Information / Decision Support Cycle
- Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Forecasts
- The recognition of risk in Models
- Using Budget Models for Simulation Purposes
- The Drive toward Shareholder Value (EVA®)
The Strategic Plan
- The purpose of planning and budgeting in business
- Defining the strategic approach to business planning
- Defining strategic assumptions
- Building the strategic planning model using financial data
- Various strategic and tactical approaches to business planning
- Defining the Decision-Support model: Assumptions/Goals and Key Success Factors
DAY 2 – Analysing the Historical Data Using Excel®
- Recognizing the Basic Patterns Inherent in Historical Data
- Using the Exploratory Data Analysis Tools Available in Excel®
- 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
- Single Regression vs. Multiple Regression
- Validation of Time Series Analysis
DAY 3
Approaches to Budget Development
- Zero Base Budgeting
- Activity based Budgeting
- Rolling Budgets
- Operational Unit Budgeting
- Programme budgeting
- Developing the Cash Budget
Using Activity based Budgeting
- Developing the ABB application model
- Budgeting for Processes rather than Departments
- Defining Key Cost Drivers
- Defining Key Activities
- Development of ABB Cost Standards
- Developing the Activity-Based Budget
DAY 4
Strategic and Operational Cost Analysis Techniques
- Cost behaviour and breakeven analysis
- Identifying fixed, variable and semi-variable costs
- Application of Regression in the development of budgets
- Building the financial simulation model using articulated financial statements
- Building the financial simulation model using deterministic simulation
- Building the financial simulation model using probabilistic (Monte Carlo) simulation
Developing Manufacturing Standards
- Material Standard Development
- Labour Standard Development
- Factory and Corporate Overhead Standard Development
- Variance Analysis
DAY 5 – Defining and Testing Optimisation Techniques in Models Using Excel®
- Basic Structure of All Optimisation Models
- Different Forms and Applications of Optimization Models
- Developing a Financial Optimisation Model
- Performing Sensitivity Analysis of an Optimisation Model
- Interpreting the Solution of an Optimisation Model to a Non-technical Manager
- Lessons Learned and Lessons to be Learned