Budgeting: Presenting and Communicating your Numbers

Monday, January 13, 2025
Webcast or Webinar, Online
3:00 PM - 4:53 PM (opens at 2:30 PM) EST
2Credits
Accounting and Auditing

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$79.00 Regular Price
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$109.00 Regular Price

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Course Type: Webcast
Course Code: 24/AC685691
Level: Intermediate
Vendor: ACPEN
Field of Study: Accounting

Overview:

The budgeting process can be a time consuming and frustrating process for accountants.  The constraints and pressures can lead to poor decisions in both the technical and human components.  This session will cover:

Budgeting:  Presenting and Communicating your Numbers

•    Now that the budget is complete, how we communicate our plan is critical.  this session reveals some key guidelines in budget presentation and will identify key problems in how people often communicate financial plans. 

Objectives:

  • Define the budget process
    • Understand varying budget cultures and choosing the right one for your organization
    • Walk through a 12-step cure for the typical Budgetaholic
    • Use Balanced Scorecard Budgeting
  • How to build a model that works
    • How the right Chart of Accounts can simplify your work 
    • Building a volume sensitive model
    • Budgeting to GAAP and for Board understanding
    • Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
    • Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expenses
    • Using variables to stress test your budget
  • Understanding core personality types
    • Learning the type of person you are
    • Managing and coping with the budget team
    • Dealing with A, B and C players
    • Connecting through disconnection
  • Identifying the ‘big picture” and your communications role 
    • Communicating so others can understand us
    • Understanding a presentation’s anatomy 
    • Tips and tricks for budget presentation

Major Topics:

  • Budget defining,
  • Budget cultures
  • Tacticle budget issues
  • Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions
  • Understanding people in the budget process
  • Communicating your budget to non financial types

Major Topics:

  • Budget defining,
  • Budget cultures
  • Tacticle budget issues
  • Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions
  • Understanding people in the budget process
  • Communicating your budget to non financial types

Designed For:

Current and aspiring CFO's and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process

Prerequisites:

None