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Advanced Budgeting and Forecasting

ID
1576
Course Code
GFAS053
Title
Advanced Budgeting and Forecasting
Category
Finance and Accounting
Date
24-28 Oct
Location
Kula lumpur
Country
Malaysia
Fees
3500 $
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Objectives:

  • How to implement advanced planning and control techniques into your budgeting process
  • Know how to integrate the budgeting process with the development of the company's long-term strategic vision
  • Know how to provide a decision support structure that provides timely and useful information to decision makers
  • Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
  • Know how to forecast costs and revenues with greater confidence
  • Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals
  • Effectively manage the budgeting process
  • Identify key performance indicators for effective and focused decision making
  • Develop ways to increase profitability and performance through stream lined planning and reporting

Outline:
Budgets in Today's International environment
Planning In the Organization

  • Organizational 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
  • The Drive toward Shareholder Value

The Strategic Plan

  • 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
  • Defining the Decision-Support model: Assumptions / Goals and Key Success Factors

Analysing the Historical Data Using Excel

  • Recognizing the Basic Patterns Inherent in Historical Data
  • Using the Exploratory Data Analysis Tools Available in Excel®
  • Development of Time Series Models using histograms, moving averages, exponential smoothing and regression analysis
  • Using Regression Analysis as a predictor and estimator
  • Mastering the use of Exponential Smoothing as a Data Analysis tool
  • Single Regression vs. Multiple Regression
  • Validation of Time Series Analysis

Approaches to Budget Development
Types of Budgets

  • Zero Base Budgeting
  • Activity Based Budgeting
  • Rolling Budgets
  • Operational Unit Budgeting
  • Programme Budgeting
  • Developing the Cash Budget

Using Activity based Budgeting

  • Developing the ABB application model
  • Budgeting for Processes rather than Departments
  • Defining Key Cost Drivers
  • Defining Key Activities
  • Development of ABB Cost Standards
  • Developing the Activity-Based Budget

Strategic and Operational Cost Analysis Techniques
Types of Costs

  • Identifying fixed, variable and semi-variable costs
  • Application of Regression in the development of budgets
  • Building the financial simulation model using articulated financial statements
  • Building the financial simulation model using simulation

Developing Manufacturing Standards

  • Material Standard Development
  • Labour Standard Development
  • Factory and Corporate Overhead Standard Development
  • Variance Analysis

Defining and Testing Optimisation Techniques in Models Using Excel

  • Basic Structure of All Optimisation Models
  • Different Forms and Applications of Optimization Models
  • Developing a Financial Optimisation Model
  • Performing Sensitivity Analysis of an Optimisation Model
  • Interpreting the Solution of an Optimisation Model to a Non-technical Manager
 
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