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Course Overview

This program provides an overview of the tools and the skills to build world class standards into your planning, budgeting and reporting system and will discuss new and best practice techniques, explain how they complement the traditional financial planning tools, and introduce new concepts for planning and analysis of financial statements , advanced accounting and preparation of budgets.

Objective:

Make budgeting process more cost effectively.
Help delegates understand how to apply different planning, forecasting and analysis techniques.
Organise budget structure to work on during the program.
Implement advanced planning and control techniques into your budgeting process.
Integrate the budgeting process with the development of the company’s long-term strategic vision.
Provide a decision support structure that provides timely and useful information to decision makers.
Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process.
Forecast costs and revenues with greater confidence.
Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals.
Effectively manage the budgeting process.

Course Outline

Planning and budgeting

The purpose of planning and budgeting in business.
Defining the strategic approach to business planning.
Defining strategic assumptions.

Building the strategic planning model using financial data.

Various strategic and tactical approaches to business planning.

Budgets in today's international environment

Organisational planning and control framework.
The product / information / decision support cycle.
Strategic, tactical, and operational forecasts.
The recognition of risk in models.
Using budget models for simulation purposes.

Approaches to Budget Development

Zero base budgeting.
Activity based budgeting.
Rolling budgets.
Operational unit budgeting.
Program budgeting.

Using activity-based budgeting

Developing the ABB application model.
Budgeting for processes rather than departments.
Defining key cost drivers.
Developing the activity-based budget.

Strategic and Operational Cost Analysis techniques

Cost behaviour and breakeven analysis.
Identifying fixed, variable and semi-variable costs.
Application of regression in the development of budgets.

Schedule & Fees

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 02 - 06 Dec 2024

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 06 - 10 Jan 2025

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$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 02 - 06 Jun 2025

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Duration: 5 Days

date: 06 - 10 Oct 2025

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$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 01 - 05 Dec 2025

Finance and Accounting

Financial Planning and Budgeting

Duration:5 Days

date:02 - 06 Dec 2024

Dubai

$4,900

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