What You Will Learn
- The history of the budgeting process
- The importance of budgeting for the health of your department and the entire organization
- Various approaches to budget preparation
- Four budget types that compose a master budget
- Sales
- Expense/Operational
- Cash
- Capital
- Common tools used in preparing budgets
- Corporate strategy
- The financial statements
- Sales forecast
- Past budgets
- How to manage variances
- Forecasting
- The purpose of flexible, performance and activity based budgeting
- How to draft a budget through a case study
The Budgeting Game graduates are eligible to receive .8 CEU credits through Old Dominion University!