Budgeting and Budgetary Control

13, 20 & 27 November 2024

Budgeting is an effective tool for planning, resource allocation, motivation and control.

Key questions:

  • Why do organisations need to prepare budgets?
  • Who is responsible for budgeting process?
  • What types of budgets are used by organisations?
  • How are budgets prepared and presented to stakeholders?
  • How to create useful and informative budget templates?
  • What is budgetary control? How to calculate and interpret variances?
  • What are the approaches of budgeting? What are the benefits of Beyond Budgeting?

Additional information

Target audience

CFOs, finance business partners, management accountants, financial / cost controllers, planning and analysis specialists, internal auditors, accountants.

Timing and delivery

Training date (3 workshops):  13, 20 & 27 November 2024 

Duration: 12 hours - from 9:00 to 13:15 CET
(including one 15-minute break)

Format: Open training, LIVE/Online

Language: English

We also offer this course in a closed form, tailored to the needs of a given client.

Training program

The training program below is a sample and can be modified to meet the unique business needs of the organization.

 

Purposes of budgeting

  • Forecasting, planning and budgeting.
  • Difficulties in budgeting for global companies.

 

Responsibility accounting

  • Cost, revenue, profit and investment centres.
  • Typical measures used to assess their performance.

 

Setting financial goals

  • Financial key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Decomposition of budgeted goals. Goal trees.

 

 

Budgeting process

  • Stages of budget preparation.
  • Budget templates.
  • Budget calculation formulas.
  • Budget models based on the KPI decomposition.

 

Budget review

  • Budget justifications. Communicating assumptions. Budget committee.
  • Scenario planning. Sensitivity / “what if” analysis. Stress testing.

 

 

Budget performance

  • Fixed and flexible budgets.
  • Variance analysis.
  • Controllable and non-controllable variances.
  • Waterfall chart.

 

 

Approaches and methods of budgeting

 

  • Participation in budgeting: imposed/top-down, participative/bottom up budgets.
  • Incremental budgeting versus zero-based budgeting (ZBB).
  • Periodic versus rolling budgets.

 

 

Alternative approaches to budgeting

  • Beyond budgeting.
  • Activity based budgeting (ABB).

Organisational information

Price

480 EUR + VAT

Date

13, 20 & 27 November 2024 (3 workshops)

Duration

12 hours - from 9:00 to 13:15 CET (including one 15-minute break)

Format

Open training, LIVE/Online

Language

English

Kapcsolat

Katalin Szilágyi

PwC's Academy leader, PwC Hungary

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