BEACH RETREAT: Critical Budgeting Skills – Jennifer Elder, CPA (111116-13)
Description
Budgeting is both an art and a science. Learn how to applyleading-edge
tools and methods to make your planning processmore strategic and your
budget process more flexible. Yourbudget should not lead to “turf” wars
over precious and scarceresources.
Learning Objectives
This course teaches you how to build a set of decision-makingprocesses
early and how to use them to make smart allocationchoices that benefit
the entire organization
Have your planningand budget processes work to
increase higher-earning potential
By evaluating your current methods,
you should develop yourbudgeting and planning to a higher level and
solve many highlevelbudget problems after attending this workshop
Createbudgeted action plans, costed initiatives, and a process
forcalculating the return on investment for expenditures andheadcount
increases
Major Topics
Ways to Measure the Impact of a Strategy on Firm Spending
How
Non-Financial Performance Impacts a Budget's Success
Visionary and
Game-Free Planning and Forecasting
Ways to Rally and Strengthen the
Overall Process
Finding the Right Balance Among People, Profits and
Controls
Course Level
Intermediate
CPE Field of Study
Finance
4
Prerequisites
At least two years' experience preparing budgets, forecasts and planning
