Practical Budgeting
Course
In City of London
Description
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Type
Workshop
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Location
City of london
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Class hours
6h
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Duration
1 Day
The course develops an understanding as to why and how budgets are prepared and the importance of monitoring performance against budget. It takes a practical approach to preparing and monitoring budgets.
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Start date
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About this course
Anyone new to budgeting and budget responsibility.
Reviews
Subjects
- Monitoring
- Budgeting
- Cash Flow
- Capital Budgeting
- Family Budgeting
- Household Budgeting
- Finance
- Revenue Tax return
- Budgetary control
- Budgetary management
Teachers and trainers (1)
Sue Turner
Teacher
Sue Turner qualified as a chartered accountant with a ‘Big 5’ firm. Since specialising in management development, Sue has designed and delivered successful interactive learning programmes for clients including Ernst & Young, Safeway and Alliance & Leicester. Her special area of interest within management development is maximising the transfer of learning to the workplace. Sue is a Consultant with Finance into Focus.
Course programme
- A review of the benefits and common problems of the budget itself, resulting in a session on how to overcome the issues
- Different budgeting approaches from top down to bottom up and the possible problems different corporate cultures can lead to in developing budgets
- Budgeting games stakeholders play in setting budgets
- The budget process including the preparation of the budget pack, monitoring the budget and addressing performance issues
- Different types of budget (revenue, expense, cash flow, capital budgets), what drives each budget and how they link together
- An understanding of costs and how they impact the budget (fixed costs, variable costs, capex and opex)
- The importance of phasing costs in preparing a budget
- Being able to justify your budget
- Managing and monitoring the budget including variance analysis, the resulting issues and solutions
Practical Budgeting