Advanced Skills for the Budget Manager: Smart and Profitable Planning

Budgeting is no longer a once a year event — it is now a 365 days-a-year efficient and fast-moving leadership process that your firm must master to stay alive in this global economy. With this course, you will design a new and more effective budget and find best practices in planning used today by leading-edge firms. You will see how to use your organization’s mission and culture as the springboard for a budget that builds accountability.

• Improve the overall planning and budget processes
• Grasp the four critical elements of budget success and determine their existence
• Move your firm’s current budgeting method of and planning to a higher level
• Select the budget software solution that fits their organization
• Shift your firm’s culture to one where employees use the budget as a guide
• Use the budget to reduce the high cost unexpected risk
• Apply advanced best practices to improve their existing budget process
• Raise skills to a strategic and advanced level

Prerequisite: At least five years experience preparing budgeting and conducting planning