Financial Analysis, Planning & Control

This seminar brings together important areas of financial management, planning, and control: Financial Analysis, Planning, and Control; Setting & Controlling Budgets. It will help business professionals:

• Plan more effectively for the future
• Use the financial techniques of planning and control
• Improve performance from the use of the tools of financial analysis
• Link planning and budgeting with costing and performance measurement
• Master the skills of budgetary and cost control

The seminar provides delegates with the knowledge required to find better answers to questions such as:

• Which specific variables, relationships, and trends are likely to be helpful in analyzing problems?
• How reliable are available financial data, and how are uncertainty and risk likely to impact on the outcomes of decisions?
• In economic and financial analysis what are the implications and relative importance of cash flow as distinct from accounting profit?
• What limitations are inherent in financial data and the key financial statements, and how will these affect the financial analysis?
• How important are qualitative judgments in the context of decision-making?

and to focus on key issues such as:

• Understand strategic planning and budgeting.
• Link finance and operations for budgeting purposes and strategy execution
• Learn how to build a comprehensive performance measurement system
• Learn costing and budgeting terminology used in business
• Understand the importance of a well-defined costing and budgeting process
• Understand cost behavior more accurately
• Be able to perform and interpret variance analysis

• Senior managers and executives involved in financial decision-making
• Finance managers and financial controllers
• Budgeting and planning professionals
• Corporate finance professionals
• Management accountants and cost control specialists
• Business analysts and performance management professionals
• Project and operations managers involved in budgeting and control
• Internal auditors and risk management professionals
• Corporate planning and strategy professionals
• Entrepreneurs and business owners focused on performance improvement
• Consultants in finance, budgeting, and business transformation
• Professionals seeking advanced knowledge in financial planning and control