Forecasting for Financial Managers

The rate of change in the business environment is greater than ever before, managers are recognising that they have to spend more time looking forward.

For you, the finance professional, this is vitally important but not necessarily straightforward. Coming to terms with judgements about the future, which are subject to significant margins of error, requires a particular set of skills.

As well as describing the principles and practice of forecasting, this course looks at their use, especially in decision making.
It covers interpretative statistics, short-medium term forecasting and long range forecasting.