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Want to implement a thorough and thought-out budget in your business but don’t know where to start?

Our course can teach you the fundamentals of budgeting so you can learn how to prepare, analyse, and use budgets as a management tool.

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Be guided by experienced accounting professionals as you work through various case studies and examples of different budgeting experiences you might face in your business and learn how to solve them.

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In this workshop you will learn:

Budgeting fundamentals
Different budgeting techniques
The importance of using budgets as a management tool
What components make up the master budget including how to prepare:

Operating budgets (revenue budget and expenditure budget)
Capital expenditure budgets
Financial budgets (cash budget)
Budgeted Profit & Loss Statements, Budgeted Balance Sheets and Budgeted Cash Flow Statements

How to use sensitivity analysis
The difference between Budgets and Forecasts and the importance of Forecasting
How to interpret Performance Reports

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This workshop is suitable for anyone who:

Has the responsibility of preparing budgets in their business.
Wants to learn how to prepare and build a robust budget for their business.
Wants to understand how to interpret budget variances and take corrective action.

Attendees should be familiar with the use of Zoom for remote courses.

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