Setting & Controlling Budgets
Setting & Controlling Budgets
Course Description
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
• Plan and forecast at a business level.
• Distinguish between different cost systems.
• Develop an understanding of the corporate budgeting process.
• Read, understand and interpret master budgets.
• Prepare and monitor business performance and Identify cost savings.
• Appreciate the importance of reducing unnecessary costs and working towards increased corporate efficiency.
• Understand costs behavior more accurately
• Identify & manage key financial indicators for the business
• Be able to interpret the financial impact of strategic directions.
Objectives
- Plan and forecast at a business level.
- Distinguish between different cost systems.
- Develop an understanding of the corporate budgeting process.
- Read, understand and interpret master budgets.
- Prepare and monitor business performance and Identify cost savings.
- Appreciate the importance of reducing unnecessary costs and working towards increased corporate efficiency.
- Understand costs behavior more accurately
- Identify & manage key financial indicators for the business
- Be able to interpret the financial impact of strategic directions.
Who Should Attend?
Financial Planning and Control Staff involved in the performance of a business unit, division or an organization as whole
Professionals with direct or indirect financial responsibilities
Personnel who manage departments with budgetary plans, and who are responsible for cost and strategic analysis
Professionals from all sectors of industry, but particularly those involved in manufacturing, production, engineering or sales
Professionals who would benefit from having an opportunity to consider new ideas and methods in budgeting
Outline
Day 1:
Strategic planning for Setting Budgets
• Understanding what strategic planning is and why it is important
• Clarify the difference between vision, mission statement, goals and objectives
• The outside environment: the need to understand the economic cycle
• SWOT and PESTEL analysis
• Tying the strategic plan to the budget
Financial Planning - Elements of Costing and Cost Strategies
• The nature and behaviour of costs, fixed, variable, semi-variable, direct and indirect costs
• Standard and actual costing - the difference
• Understanding overheads
Day 2:
• Calculating the variances at a detailed level to give real meaning to them
• Activity base costing ABC
• Full cost pricing and managerial costing
Forecasting & Preparing the Business Estimates
• The purpose of forecasts for the business
• The limiting factors
• How to predict sale revenues - different approaches
• Percentage of sales forecasting
• Using the three financial statements for forecasting
• Break-even analysis
Day 3:
Forecasting methods
• The most useful forecasting techniques
o Quantitative approaches
o Qualitative approaches
• Forecasting methods demonstrated
Forecasting case study
Budgeting - The Corporate Budgeting Process
• Understanding the benefit of budgeting to an organization
• Budgets' forms and purposes; the master budget
• The different types of budgets - fixed, flexible, zero based, & ABB
• Preparing, coordinating and monitoring a budget
• Should we budget for customer satisfaction?
Day 4:
Presenting a Business Budget
• Giving clear information
• Presenting the main variables
• Negotiating agreement
• Putting it clearly onto paper
• The budgets and performance measurement as tools for communications
• Budgets and issues of motivation
Budgeting case study
Tracking Expenditure for Performance
• Reconciling actual with budgeted expenditure
• Critical variances
o Material: Price vs. Quantity
o Mix vs. Yield
o Labour: Rate vs. Efficiency
• Identifying cost saving opportunities
• Looking for volume discounts
• Phasing expenditure to help cash flow
Day 5:
Capital Budgeting
• Capital budgeting overview
• Net Present Value
• Internal Rate of Return
• Modified Internal Rate of return
• Profitability Index
Capital Budgeting case study
Controlling the budget variances
• Interpreting the variance analysis report
• What is critical & what is not
• Creating accountability
• Action planning - the essential next steps
• What next
Certificates
A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.
Schedule
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
- Pre and Post Test
Fees
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: