
Description
CPA Members only
CPA Australia has partnered with the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) to curate a collection of data and digital courses exclusively for CPA members. CFI courses have an emphasis on hands-on, practical learning and skills acquisition. They teach in-demand industry practices, tools and techniques that help accounting and finance professionals build confidence, stand out from the competition, and make a positive impact on their careers.
This financial budgeting course will teach you about the entire budgeting process from start to finish, including how to create a disciplined culture of budgeting in your organisation, the various methods for building budgets, techniques to analyse results, and how to increase the chances of organisational performance improvements.
This interactive and applied budgeting course enables you to:
• Adopt a disciplined approach to developing budgets
• Forecast results with quantitative and qualitative methods
• Effectively use variance analysis to track performance
• Present results with charts and graphs
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CFI programs will be supplied to CPA Australia members as standalone courses for 12 months from the date of purchase and as such, any associated CFI certifications are not able to be supplied. Refunds or extensions for purchases of CFI courses will only be available in exceptional circumstances and will be based on CPA Australia and CFI’s cancellation terms.
Learning objectives
- Explain the principles behind best practice financial management
- Explain the importance of budgeting within a strategic framework
- Build a robust budgeting process within your organisation
- Know when and where to use various budgeting approaches such as zero-based budgeting
- Forecast future performance by better analysing revenue and cost drivers
- Use effective variance reporting to track organisational performance
- Make use of Excel functions and tools that are particularly suited to the budgeting process.
Audience
This online budgeting course is designed for those who are responsible for financial management, budgeting, and forecasting within their organizations. This may include professionals working in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, treasury, financial reporting, corporate development, etc.
