The Controller's Role in Budget Creation
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: David Sanders
Webinar Description
Done wrong, budget creation can be akin to fortunetelling. Done right, budget creation melds together financial analysis, strategic and tactical goal setting, short- and long term forecasting, and legal compliance into a powerful business tool. Budget creation is also a primary function and responsibility of yours, as a Controller. Your ability to interface with the finance department, while undertaking financial analysis, forecasting, planning and goal setting; plus ensuring proper execution of the budget, will help lead to organizational success. Not understanding how to bring all of these disparate pieces together can, however, spell business failure.
This information and technique rich webinar will provide you with core principles and techniques with which to successfully formulate, develop, and implement realistic, meaningful capital, financial and/or operational budgets.
Agenda
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand capital, financial and operational budgets
- Determine what data is needed for each type of budget
- Checklists of data requirements
- Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant data
- Analyze data effectively
- Recognize and manage financial risk
- Present data both textually and graphically
- Undertake regular financial reviews
- Do forecasting.
Logistics
- 90 minutes (Travel Free) delivered over the Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. You may listen to the audio of the webinar by telephone or through your computer. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.
What is a webinar?
A webinar is a live Internet based seminar. Webinars are a way for participants in many different locations to see and hear a presentation and view PowerPoint slides. You can also have your colleagues attend the webinar using one connection.
What kind of equipment do I need?
You will need a computer with an Internet connection (high speed service such as DSL or cable works best) and a telephone. You may listen to the webinar through your computer speakers, in which case you will not need to use a telephone connection. Internet access is not required for phone-only participants, but you will not be able to see the speaker’s slides.
How can I share the webinar with my colleagues who may not be able to attend the event?
CDs of each program will be available for sale and can be shared with your business associates.
Can I get a copy of the PowerPoint slides used in the webinar?
The PowerPoint slides will be available on the materials page link in the confirmation email that will be sent to you no later than the morning of the day a webinar is presented.
How do I ask a question during the webinar? Will my question be answered during the presentation?
A question and answer session will be scheduled at the end of each webinar. You can then ask a question by typing it into the question box that will be provided to you duringthe webinar. You may also ask a question through the telephone connection. As many questions as possible will be answered during the Question and Answer period.