The Budgeting Essentials and Development course focus on an integrative and practical view of concepts, methods, and techniques to develop a budget.
After finishing this course, learners will be able to:
- Develop the budget with a broad view of the corporate functions;
- Integrate the strategic guidelines into the discussions of budgeting process;
- Structure the budget planning and development in a logical sequence
- Coordinate the project of budget planning with the different areas of the company
- Actively promote assumptions discussions to improve the process of developing the budget
- Apply financial concepts to support the budget planning process
- Design a budget monitoring and control model to support the performance management
- Evaluate the performance of the company by managing the results and the budget
In this course, learners will have a deeper understanding of the budgeting process, its challenges, common issues, and approaches to mitigate the problems and improve the learning curve of budget planning.
It is integrative by emphasizing the transition between the corporate strategy and the budget. It is practical by following a structured process of going through a framework that illustrates and demonstrates how to analyze, develop and control the budget.
As the budgeting process needs strategic guidelines, and these guidelines drive the planning process, corporate managers develop the budget plan accordingly to the strategic guidelines.The budget contributes to the roll-out of programs, projects, and actions to implement in the organization. These programs and projects are planned in the budget development process. In this module of the course, the discussions aim to overview the transition between strategy to the budget planning process.
The course is targeted to professionals who actively participate in the budgeting process, e.g., professionals who have been recently promoted to a managing position, in which the scope of responsibilities are broader, especially in the budget planning, monitoring, and control.
Pre-requisites to benefit the most from this course is basic to intermediate business management knowledge and concepts.