Two Day Business Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting Course (London, United Kingdom - November 1st-2nd, 2017)

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Oct 03, 2017, 03:30 ET

DUBLIN, October 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

The "Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting" conference has been added to Research and Markets' offering.

This two-day course provides techniques for checking that your business plans and strategy are financially viable. It describes seven techniques that between them improve the accuracy of any forecast you have to make. It also shows how to budget and how to convert the business plan and the short-term forecasts into a financial statement of expected revenues and costs.

What this course will cover

This two-day course assumes that you already have a business strategy and outlines some techniques for creating business plans that are aligned with this strategy. It provides techniques for checking that the plans - and hence the strategy - are financially viable. The programme also describes seven techniques that between them improve the accuracy of any forecast you have to make. It highlights how budgeting can convert the business plan and the short-term forecasts into a financial statement of expected revenues and costs. If you are responsible for a business plan or strategy this is a must-attend programme.

Over two intensive days you will develop the skills to:

Create strategic business plans
Build tangible improvement plans
Apply the seven key forecasting techniques
Understand the link between forecasting and cash flow
Improve budgets to accurately reflect business strategy
Track performance and use budgets to manage effectively

Course objectives

Participants attending this programme will learn how to:
Translate strategy into results
Generate a business plan that drives organisational activity
Increase the accuracy of forecasting
Ensure realistic forecasting
Allocate appropriate resources
Set budgets that are quicker to create, encourage the right behaviours and add value
Identify and manage key risks, and reflect them in the budget
Avoid the weaknesses of conventional approaches to budgeting

Above all, this programme will show you how strategy, business planning, forecasting and budgeting should fit together and support one another - and how to make this happen in your own organisation.

INCLUDES: Practical and interactive exercises

Who Should Attend:

Middle and senior managers with commercial responsibilities
Business unit heads
All those responsible for planning, forecasting and budgeting
Senior managers who need to know more about budgeting and forecasting without having to know the intricacies of company finance

For more information about this conference visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/j5xtdz/planning

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