The Dark Art of Budgeting

Understand the true roles of budgeting and forecasting from all stakeholders' perspectives. Know how budgets really get set and why, ultimately, delivering the budget is so important. Understand how finance and non-finance can work together to create a joined up story. Be able to analyse historic high level numbers to extract the story. Identify the key levers that make a real difference to the future finance story. Make key assumptions in words and then translate them into numbers. Understand the differences between budgeting for cash and profit. Suitable for: Non Finance people wanting to demystify, build confidence and energy around budgeting. Finance people seeking to transform budgeting in their organisations. We highly recommend combining this course with Funky Finance as a two day course.