Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price $79.00
Non-Member Price $109.00
Overview
The budgeting process can be a time consuming and frustrating process for accountants. The constraints and pressures can lead to poor decisions in both the technical and human components. This session will cover:
Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities
• Most of us lead or participate in the budget process at least annually. Inherent flaws exist in the standard budget building process that you can solved by recognizing them and committing to solutions.
Objectives
- Define the budget process
- Understand varying budget cultures and choosing the right one for your organization
- Walk through a 12-step cure for the typical Budgetaholic
- Use Balanced Scorecard Budgeting
- How to build a model that works
- How the right Chart of Accounts can simplify your work
- Building a volume sensitive model
- Budgeting to GAAP and for Board understanding
- Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
- Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expenses
- Using variables to stress test your budget
- Understanding core personality types
- Learning the type of person you are
- Managing and coping with the budget team
- Dealing with A, B and C players
- Connecting through disconnection
- Identifying the ‘big picture” and your communications role
- Communicating so others can understand us
- Understanding a presentation’s anatomy
- Tips and tricks for budget presentation
Highlights
- Budget defining,
- Budget cultures
- Tacticle budget issues
- Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions
- Understanding people in the budget process
- Communicating your budget to non financial types
Designed For
Current and aspiring CFO’s and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process
Prerequisites
None
Preparation
None
Notice
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Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Bob Mims, The Knowledge Institute
a financial consultant and VP Finance for promising enterprises. For 20 years, Robert has worked with numerous startup ventures and nonprofits in the roles of Strategic Planning, Business Modeling, Controller and CFO. His focus is understanding the fundamentals of profitability. Robert worked ten years as a Big Four a Senior Assurance Manager, earning National Instructor of the Year on three occasions. Robert has served on FASB Advisory committees and is based in Memphis, TN.
Non-Member Price $109.00
Member Price $79.00