Advanced Budgeting and Forecasting هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية قرية المعرفة, دبي

تفاصيل الدورة

Objectives:

• How to implement advanced planning and control techniques into your budgeting process
• Know how to integrate the budgeting process with the development of the company’s long-term strategic vision
• Know how to provide a decision support structure that provides timely and useful information to decision makers
• Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
• Know how to forecast costs and revenues with greater confidence
• Apply management tools to the budgeting process that contribute to strategic goals
• Effectively manage the budgeting process
• Identify key performance indicators for effective and focused decision making
• Develop ways to increase profitability and performance through stream lined planning and reporting

Outline:
Budgets in Today’s International environment
Planning In the Organization

• Organizational Planning and Control Framework
• The Product / Information / Decision Support Cycle
• Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Forecasts
• The recognition of risk in Models
• Using Budget Models for Simulation Purposes
• The Drive toward Shareholder Value

The Strategic Plan

• The purpose of planning and budgeting in business
• Defining the strategic approach to business planning
• Defining strategic assumptions
• Building the strategic planning model using financial data
• Various strategic and tactical approaches to business planning
• Defining the Decision-Support model: Assumptions / Goals and Key Success Factors

Analysing the Historical Data Using Excel

• Recognizing the Basic Patterns Inherent in Historical Data
• Using the Exploratory Data Analysis Tools Available in Excel®
• 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
• Single Regression vs. Multiple Regression
• Validation of Time Series Analysis

Approaches to Budget Development
Types of Budgets

• Zero Base Budgeting
• Activity Based Budgeting
• Rolling Budgets
• Operational Unit Budgeting
• Programme Budgeting
• Developing the Cash Budget

Using Activity based Budgeting

• Developing the ABB application model
• Budgeting for Processes rather than Departments
• Defining Key Cost Drivers
• Defining Key Activities
• Development of ABB Cost Standards
• Developing the Activity-Based Budget

Strategic and Operational Cost Analysis Techniques
Types of Costs

• Identifying fixed, variable and semi-variable costs
• Application of Regression in the development of budgets
• Building the financial simulation model using articulated financial statements
• Building the financial simulation model using simulation

Developing Manufacturing Standards

• Material Standard Development
• Labour Standard Development
• Factory and Corporate Overhead Standard Development
• Variance Analysis

Defining and Testing Optimisation Techniques in Models Using Excel

• Basic Structure of All Optimisation Models
• Different Forms and Applications of Optimization Models
• Developing a Financial Optimisation Model
• Performing Sensitivity Analysis of an Optimisation Model
• Interpreting the Solution of an Optimisation Model to a Non-technical Manager

تحديث بتاريخ 18 April, 2019