Budgeting and Forecasting

Topics covered will include: - Budgeting within a strategic framework - Building a robust budgeting process - Managing budget psychology - A practical guide to developing budgets - Common budgeting approaches (e.g. Incremental, value based, zero based, etc.) - Forecasting techniques (moving average, regression analysis, etc.) - Tracking budget performance with variance analysis (waterfall charts, etc.) - Applied budgeting tools and techniques (Excel, solver, pivot tables, etc.)