Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices

The key to maintaining and improving profitability is to increase revenue and control costs. Increasing revenue is difficult enough when faced with competition and volatile market prices but when faced with the unprecedented challenges as a result of the global pandemic the focus on budgeting and cost control becomes more vital for the success of any organisation. This Budgeting Best Practices training course will provide delegates with the practical tools and techniques to enable them to prepare, manage and control budgets to reduce costs improve performance and drive efficiency and profitability.

This Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices training course will assist individuals at every level in the organisation in their involvement in the budget process. Through the analysis of interactive case studies’, it provides the practical transferable skills for delegates to take back to their workplace, along with insights needed to adapt principles to specific work environments.

This Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices training course will feature:

• Strategic planning
• The budgeting planning process
• Forecasting techniques
• What if analysis and report generation
• Capital budgeting

By the end of This Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices training course, participants will be able to:

• Develop the appropriate techniques for effective budgeting as part of the planning process
• Forecast sales, revenue and costs using qualitative and quantitative techniques in Excel
• Explain and use activity based budgeting and other budgeting methods
• Develop and effectively control budgets
• Provide budgeting knowledge that can be shared for the benefit of your company

This Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices training course is designed for anyone involved in the budget process within their organisation. The training course is appropriate for those who wish to learn the concepts, processes, and techniques of budgeting in order to be better able to carry out their budgeting tasks and responsibilities. The training course is equally appropriate for those who already have some budget experience and wish to refresh or enhance their budgeting knowledge and skills. It will greatly benefit:

• Finance & Accounting professionals
• Departmental Managers
• Team Leaders
• Those preparing budgets
• Those working within a budget

This Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This will include presentations delivered in a highly participative style with discussion, practical exercises and team-based case studies.

This Certificate in Budgeting Best Practices training course will provide a real-world practical context by incorporating worked examples, case studies, and finance models so that you will see how theory applies in practice and discuss the various issues raised.