A good plan should begin with a good forecast, which in turn, may lead to a good budget. A strategy is a long-term plan of what the company is going to do to achieve its policy. The budget is the short-term plan of how strategies may be achieved. It is a quantification of the activities the company must develop to achieve its short-term plans.
At the end of this conference the participants will be able to:
Develop strategic thinking, and use the strategic management process to develop missions and objectives and carry out strategic analysis and decision-making.
Understand the relationship between financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting, and integration of the strategic management process with the budgeting cycle.
Understand cost behavior, the use of alternative costing systems, and cost/volume/profit (CVP) analysis, and develop and prepare an operating budget and how it may be funded using the alternative sources of finance.
Use various Excel models to forecast sales pricing, optimal product mix, long- and short-term sales levels, and build financial growth planning models and traditional and activity-based budget models, and improve budget accuracy.
Use the techniques of budgetary control: development of product standards, flexed budgets, and variance analysis, and use of the results of variance analysis to improve operational performance.
Determine a company’s cost of capital and use the technique of discounted cash flow (DCF) for capital budgeting and evaluation of capital project investment, and risk analysis using the techniques of sensitivity, simulation, and scenario analysis.
Financial Professionals, Finance Controllers, Treasurers, and Inventory Professionals
Senior Professionals with direct responsibility for financial management and control
Accountants, Sales and Purchasing Professionals, and those responsible for the relationship with banks
Any Professional, at junior or senior level, who is a part of the financial decision- building a team
New Interns and Trainees with finance-related responsibilities
Head of Departments, Process Owners, Administrative Personnel associated with budget management
What are planning strategies?
Work with the planning cycle
Mission
Strategic analysis
Strategic choice
Strategic implementation
Corporate objectives
Corporate value and shareholder value
The agency problem and corporate governance
Planning requirements and working capital
Plan outline
Financial planning for growth
Financial modeling
Development of the key performance indicators (KPIs)
The balanced scorecard
Determine the purpose and objective of the forecast
This program provides an introduction to finance and accounting for those who have no prior knowledge of this business area. It is designed to train the participants to support operational and financial processes. Those attending this course will gain a clear understanding of the essential terminology of finance and accounting. They will also learn the principles and techniques of accounting systems through practical examples and exercises.
The overall aim of the program is to ensure that those who attend will be able to perform more effectively and efficiently within the workplace.
Document control and record management should play an important role in identity and access management by protecting sensitive documents from exposure to the wrong parties. They should also support simplified access when needed by allowing authorized parties to quickly search, find, and retrieve archived and active documents. This course provides a strong understanding of the concepts of Document Control and Records Management and develops the requirements to help Document Controllers, Records Managers, and other staff improve the control of critical documents across the organization. Using best practice and time-proven methodologies and techniques, the course enables participants to understand and implement key document control methods and improvement plans, and to understand the impact of wider information management issues and challenges.
Organizations typically start using electronic document management systems to transform paper-based operations after reaching an internal tipping point in which customer response times become too slow, departments don’t have enough bandwidth to solve recurring process bottlenecks, paper archiving becomes too costly or large-scale regulatory risks are exposed during a data breach or compliance fines.
For organizations that have defined but resource-intensive business processes, EDMS is an ideal fit. Document management helps organizations across industries sidestep this busy work entirely by eliminating manual document maintenance, reclaiming valuable staff time, and boosting the bottom-line.
The best leaders thoroughly understand themselves. Time and time again, research has shown that self-awareness and self-direction are two essential factors in leadership effectiveness. As leaders gain a better sense of themselves and a clearer plan to self-actualization.
Mastering the inter-related skills of communication, negotiation, and presentation is the key to success both for individuals building their careers and for the organizations in which they work. Drawing on classical learning, psycho-linguistic research, and ideas associated with NLP and Emotional Intelligence, this highly interactive and hands-on program helps participants explore and practice the principles and techniques they need to be effective communicators, negotiators, and presenters. Most importantly, it focuses on helping them apply these skills in the workplace as part of a process of continuous learning.