Course Description
Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting are crucial components of a company’s performance management and key responsibilities of your executive finance department. These processes are generally combined into one, in which each component represents a step towards a successful financial strategy. You will need to create an insightful financial plan to establish accessibly, company-befitting short-term, and long-term goals.
This Online Finance CPE course provides a comprehensive view of the corporate planning and budgeting process - from the strategic plan to the operating budget. Emphasis is especially laid on key elements of successful strategic plans, flexible budgeting, identification of investment opportunities, budgeting best practices, and techniques to improve the quality of forecasts. The content covered in this Online CPE webinar provides a pathway to develop your analytical and critical-thinking skills and closing skills gaps in a variety of relevant topics.
This online CPE/CPD webinar covers the following key topics:
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Planning Tools and Techniques
- Budgeting Concepts
- Correlation and Regression
- The Learning Curve
- Budget Methodologies
- The Operating Budget
- Capital Expenditure and Cash Budgets
- Top Level Planning and Analysis
Learning Objectives
- To explore how strategic planning determines the path an organization chooses for its long-term goals.
- To identify the appropriate time frame and the characteristics of successful strategic plans.
- To explore Michael Porter’s 5 forces model.
- To explore Michael Porter’s generic strategies of cost leadership, differentiation and focus.
- To identify the internal and external factors that should be analyzed during a SWOT analysis, how the analysis leads to recognition of organizational opportunities, limitations, and threats.
Recommended For
- This CPE Event will be very insightful for any Accounting & Finance Professional Involve in Business Financial Planning, Funding, Budgeting, Forecasting etc.
- This online CPE webinar is recommended for US CPAs, CFAs, CVAs, ABVs, business or firm owners, managers, practicing professionals, CFOs, COOs, and Top management personnel.
- This CPD course is recommended for Canadian CPAs who desires to improve their knowledge on planning, budgeting and forecasting for corporates.
Who Should Attend?
- Accounting Managers
- Accounts Director
- Business Owner
- CEO
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
- CFO/Controller
- Chief Accounting Officer
- CPA (Industry)
- CPA - Mid Size Firm
- CPA - Small Firm
- CPA in Business
- Entrepreneurial Accountant
- Entrepreneurial CPA
- Finance Director
- Finance Pros
- Financial Planner
- VP Finance
- Young CPA
