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Beacon FinTrain

Provides an array of professional business and financial training services that stem from improving a corporate's treasury workflow —all the way to efficient, finance training programs.

Course Overview

This workshop, "Planning, Budgeting, and Cash Budget," spans three days and covers essential financial management topics. Day 1 introduces budgeting fundamentals, including standard costs and planning concepts, while Day 2 delves into master budget development and strategic planning, encompassing various budgets and financial projections. Day 3 emphasizes flexible budgeting, variances analysis, and the application of standard costs in budget development. Through practical exercises and discussions, participants acquire the skills to efficiently plan, budget, and manage cash flow within their organizations.







Learning Outcome

Describe the concepts of strategic planning, strategic budgeting, and master budget.

Describe the advantages of budgets and benchmarking.

Describe responsibility centers and responsibility accounting

Recognize the human aspects of budgeting

Compute price variances and efficiency variances for direct cost categories

Understand how managers use variances

Course Outline

  • What is Budget? Types of budget?
  • Nature of Standard Costs
  • Planning and Budgeting Concepts
  • Why Budgeting?
  • Purposes of Budgets
  • Benefits of Budgets
  • Considerations in Preparing a Budget
  • general Principles of Good Budgeting
  • Behavioral Implications of Budgeting
  • Participatory Budget System

  • Master Budget
  • Strategic Planning & Budgeting
  • Projected Income Statement
  • Projected Balance Sheet Statement
  • Projected Cash Flow Statement

  • Flexible Budget and Budget Variances
  • Additional Budgeting Topic
  • Use of Standard Costs in Developing Budgets
  • Types of Standard Costs
  • Investigating Variances.

Who Should Attend

Financial Managers=Accountants=Sales Managers=HR Managers=Supply Chain Managers=Consultants=Business Owners