Successful organizations align budgeting, forecasting, and business planning to improve performance, manage uncertainty, and achieve strategic goals. Integrated planning enables better resource allocation, stronger financial control, and faster responses to market changes. This course provides participants with practical tools to connect strategy with budgets, forecasts, cost analysis, and investment decisions.
Accounting and Finance
Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning
Successful organizations align budgeting, forecasting, and business planning to improve performance, manage uncertainty, and achieve strategic goals. Integrated planning enables better resource allocation, stronger financial control, and faster responses to market changes. This course provides participants with practical tools to connect strategy with budgets, forecasts, cost analysis, and investment decisions.
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| Amsterdam - Netherlands |
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| London - United Kingdom |
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| Paris - France |
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| Istanbul - Türkiye |
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| Amsterdam - Netherlands |
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| London - United Kingdom |
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| Barcelona - Spain |
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- Integrate budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes
- Link financial plans with strategic objectives
- Develop effective operating and cash budgets
- Apply forecasting tools using historical data
- Use activity-based budgeting and cost analysis techniques
- Evaluate capital investment opportunities
- Improve planning accuracy and decision-making
- Build a practical integrated planning framework
This program is intended for professionals involved in Accounting and Finance.
- Finance and Accounting Professionals
- Budget Analysts
- Planning Managers
- Department Managers
- Business Controllers
- Project Managers
- Anyone involved in budgeting and planning processes
This course uses an interactive and practical approach through presentations, case studies, Excel exercises, budgeting workshops, forecasting models, financial analysis, and real workplace examples.
Day1
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
Day2
The Business Plan and Budget Development
- Developing the business plan
- Identification of key value drivers
- Achieving objectives
- Zero base budgeting
- Activity based budgeting
- Developing the cash budget
Day3
Analysing the Applicability of Historical Data Using Excel®
- Problems of forecasting
- Using historical data to help predict the future
- Forecasting techniques and applications
- Development of time series models
- Using regression analysis as a predictor and estimator
- Mastering exponential smoothing as a data analysis tool
Day4
Using Activity-Based Budgeting and Cost Analysis Techniques
- Cost behaviour and breakeven analysis
- Activity based costing
- Budgeting for processes rather than departments
- Defining key cost drivers
- Defining key activities
- Developing the activity-based budget
Day5
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
- Development of the hurdle rate for capital projects
- Evaluate capital projects using NPV, IRR, ARR and payback models
SPARK Training Certificate of Completion is awarded to participants who attend and complete the full training course.
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