Budgeting and Forecasting Manual

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Budgeting and Forecasting Manual offers financial professionals like yourself a practical new step-by-step approach without complex theory for effective budget preparation and presentation. With a “nuts and bolts” framework of budgeting and planning stated in convenient, at-a-glance lists, the Manual gives clear, up-to-date examples of how other controllers, CFOs, and directors budget for their corporations.

Intended to help you get vital budgeting tasks off the ground with more accurate results for your efforts, Budgeting and Forecasting Manual is both a toolkit of proven techniques and a step-by-step reference source for evaluating, forecasting, and presenting annual or long-term budgets and plans.

Starting with the factors of a sound business plan, Budgeting and Forecasting Manual covers short-term and annual plans for sales, marketing, manufacturing, research, finance and administration. It also discusses major long-term planning activities such as developing strategic plans for various departments, performing product-market analysis, determining risk, and using budget results to increase operating efficiency.

The Manual’s specific budgeting techniques help you:

Budgeting and Forecasting Manual also covers the latest trends such as throughput accounting, activity-based overhead allocation, and international transfer pricing in today’s budgeting process.