Building Flexible Budgeting Models: Walking Through and Crunching The Numbers

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:

Building Flexible Budgeting Models: Walking Through and Crunching The Numbers

•    We can all learn from others and improve our budgeting process by listening to our colleagues’ wisdom and experience.  This session takes a unique review of the fundamental budget issues faced by all and walks through a detailed modeling process intended to generate discussion and best practices to improve your organization’s financial planning. 

Prerequisites

None

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