Introduction
This seminar provides the skills to build world-class standards into your planning, budgeting, performance measurement and reporting system. This seminar will discuss new techniques, explain how they complement the traditional financial planning tools, and introduce new concepts for measuring and reporting performance and shareholder wealth creation. You will explore the issues relating to capital budgeting. Budgeting manufacturing as well as other expenses, identifying profit objectives, budgeting cash requirements and forecasting are all covered in this seminar.
By combining techniques analysis, problems and examples with a real case study the course provides delegates with key cost awareness and budgetary skills, which is essential in managing and controlling processes/projects in times of increasing global competition where the budgets are inextricably linked with both strategy formulation and cost analysis.
Course Objective of Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting, and Business Planning
- Successfully build integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
- Understand costs behavior more accurately
- Deliver more timely and useful information to decision-makers
- Improve the budgeting/financial skills required for better decision-making, whether for your continuing business or project or a new business venture. Explain typical costing and budgeting terminology used in business
The Process of Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting, and Business Planning
This workshop will be highly participatory and your seminar leader will present, guide and facilitate learning, using a range of methods including discussions, case studies, and exercises. Where appropriate, these will include real issues brought to the workshop by delegates.
Lessons learned from the seminar will be applied to your organization. Key performance indicators (KPIs) for the critical success factors (CSFs) will focus attention on high priority action plans for taking back to your organization.
The Benefits of Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting, and Business Planning
- Improve your management abilities
- Increased understanding of forecasting and budgeting techniques
- Understand the problems of overheads and how Activity-Based Analysis may aid decision-making and pricing strategies
- Contribute to the implementation of change in the organization
The Results of Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting, and Business Planning
- Facilitate the elimination of non-value activities and the reduction of costs within your organization
- Successfully build integrated planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting process
- Improve communication and motivation in your organization
- Understand cost behavior and patterns
- Deliver more timely and useful information to decision-makers for project management
- Ensure that processes of business planning, budgeting, and management reporting are robust in themselves and suitable for your organization
- Facilitate the continuous and radical redesign of business processes
The Course Competencies of Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting, and Business Planning
- Separating problem identification and problem-solving
- Objective and strong analysis of plans and results
- Understanding the control aspects of budgeting
- Ability to appreciate the human factors involved in budget setting
Course Outlines of Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Planning
Day One
Budgets and Strategy in Today’s International Environment
- Organizational planning framework
- The product / information / decision support cycle
- Strategic, tactical, and operational forecasts
- The strategic approach to business planning
- Various strategic and tactical approaches to business planning
- The international business environment
Day Two
The Business Plan and Budget Development
- Developing the business plan
- Identification of key value drivers
- Achieving objectives
- Zero base budgeting
- Activity-based budgeting
- Rolling budgets
- Developing the Cash Budget
Day Three
Analyzing the Applicability of Historical Data Using Excel®
- Problems of forecasting
- Using historical data to help predict the future
- Forecasting
- Sales volume
- 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
Day Four
Using Activity-Based Budgeting and Cost Analysis Techniques
- Cost behavior and breakeven analysis
- Activity-based costing
- Budgeting for Processes rather than Departments
- Defining Key Cost Drivers
- Defining Key Activities
- Developing the Activity-Based Budget
Day Five
Capital Budgeting and Project Appraisal
- Identify the various types of capital projects
- Discuss the capital project evaluation process
- The impact time has on the value of money
- Using WACC and ROIC as benchmarks
- Determining the initial and subsequent capital project cash flows
- Development of the "Hurdle Rate" for capital projects
- Evaluate capital projects by applying NPV, IRR, ARR Payback models
About Madrid
Madrid is a city that combines its enduring history with its cosmopolitan atmosphere to create a destination that favored amongst tourists from around the world. This is a city that is very much bursting at the seams with life and its vibrant atmosphere, cultural attractions and connection with history ensure travelers have everything they could possibly want from a European city break. At the end of a flight to Madrid, there are sites to see, picturesque streets to roam and, of course, excellent shopping opportunities to explore. Visitors can immerse themselves in Madrid's fantastic local culture, its peerless art scene and world acclaimed fine dining. In fact, there is very little that Madrid doesn't have to offer.
Things to do and places to visit in Madrid
The only problem travelers will encounter during their visit to Madrid is knowing what to do first. Sampling the mouth-watering tapas, strolling through one of the many excellent museums or even simply soaking up the atmosphere are all excellent options. Spend a sunny day wandering through the splendid squares or marvel at the intricate architecture of the churches.With so many options, flights to Madrid are great for people of any age or inclination.
When visiting Madrid, be sure to:
- See the superb collection of art is the Museo del Prado.
- Stroll down the Gran Via.
- Enjoy the atmosphere of the Plaza Mayor.
- Wander through the stunning gardens of the Parque del Buen Retiro.
- See the beautiful mansion of the Museo Lazaro Galdiano.
- Find quirky fashions in the Fuencarral market.
- Try some of the many different tapas dishes.
- Visit the statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in the Plaza de Espana.
- See the breathtaking Basilica de San Francisco El Grande.
- Wander the Casa de Campo park, which is five times the size of Central Park.
- Shop in the luxury boutiques of the Golden Mile.
- Look for bargains at the El Rasto flea market.
- See Picasso's Guernica in the Reina Sofia museum.
- Snack on churros with chocolate.