Advanced Budgeting Workshop

'Advanced Budgeting Workshop' is a second-level budgeting course. It goes beyond the theory of budgeting as a concept to cover specific steps to make the budget a value-added process in the organization. By building user-friendly models and applying scenario analysis, management will spend less time gathering data and more time analyzing this data for decision making. Several Microsoft Excel tools are used throughout this course to make it practical and to provide participants with the skills needed to apply these tools in their organization immediately. Such tools include 'what-if' analysis and the 'solver', among many others.

The course also highlights some of the main forecasting models and the detailed evaluation of capital budgeting techniques, all of which are applied in Microsoft Excel and put into practice.

The course is a hands-on application on how to use MS Excel in budgeting and forecasting. Participants will be involved in exercises, individual and group presentations, and will work on several case studies.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate the budgeting process in their organizations and recommend improvements
• Create budget templates and models for their departments or organizations
• Apply several forecasting techniques to better manage uncertainties in budgeting
• Evaluate capital budgeting decisions using several methods and recommend proper action
• Utilize Microsoft Excel functions and tools in the budgeting process including breakeven analysis and optimization

Finance directors, managers, controllers, accountants, budget analysts, budget owners and professionals who wish to expand their budgeting knowledge.

• Budgeting
• Building models in Microsoft Excel
• Forecasting
• Evaluating proposals
• Applying Microsoft Excel functions and tools
• Assessing budgeting process

This is a hands-on training course using laptops which will be provided by Arab for the duration of the course.