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Budgeting and Forecasting

Planning financially and keeping the plan useful. Covers the purpose of budgets and their behavioural effects, building operating and capital budgets, forecasting techniques, rolling forecasts and scenario planning, variance analysis and reforecasting, capital investment appraisal, and alternatives such as beyond budgeting.

Taught by Icompetent Solutions

Modules
7
Lessons
30
Duration
5h 48m
Level
Intermediate
Quizzes
7 graded
Enrolled
36

Course content

7 modules · 30 lessons · 5h 48m

How strategy, plans, budgets and forecasts connect, who owns each number, how the process is governed, and the vocabulary used to discuss it.

  • From Strategy to Budget: The Planning Hierarchy
    Preview
    11 min
  • Responsibility Centres and Budget Ownership11 min
  • The Budget Calendar and Process Governance11 min
  • Reading Budget Reports: The Language of Planning11 min
  • Planning, Budgeting and Control quiz9 questions · pass 70%

Topics covered

Budgeting
Forecasting
Financial Planning
Variance Analysis
Investment Appraisal

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Part of a program

Accounts and Finance Officer · 7 courses

  1. 1Bookkeeping and Double EntryFree
  2. 2Accounts Payable and ReceivableFree
  3. 3Financial Statements ExplainedFree
  4. 4Cash Flow and Working Capital ManagementFree
  5. 5Budgeting and ForecastingThis course
  6. 6Tax and VAT BasicsFree
  7. 7Financial Controls and Fraud PreventionFree

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