Live Stream Business and Industry Fest - Integrated Planning, Forecasting, and Budgeting for Organizational Success
100 | Livestream | Update | Scheduled
Description
Planning may be one of the most important assignments of the finance professional; however, it is often accomplished in a way that can harm the organization. In many cases, huge sums are spent only to have a planning document developed that does not serve to bring the company together, but rather causes internal division. In some situations the budget can actually harm both productivity and alignment. This course is designed to bring planning, budgeting, and forecasting together into one fully aligned process that is easier, more efficient, and fully engages all parts of the organization. Rather than the plan being owned by the finance department, it is owned and followed by everyone from the CEO to the entry-level employee.
Credits
| Number of Credits | Type of Credits |
|---|---|
| 4.00 | Management Services |
Designed For
CFOs, controllers, and finance professionals
Prerequisites
Experience in financial management of a small or mid-size company
Highlights
- Differences between planning and budgeting
- The business model
- Strategic plan, marketing plan, and technology plan
- Financial forecasting and financial risk analysis
- Five-year operating plan and the sales/income plan
- Intermediate planning and capital equipment planning
- One-year operating plan and monthly planning
- Cash plan and risk plan
Objectives
- Implement an integrated approach to planning, budgeting and forecasting for a more uniform process throughout the organization
- Avoid the political pitfalls that often come with the planning process
- Maximize the usefulness of the different plans developed for the organization
- Identify the differences between strategic and incremental planning
- Perform a financial risk analysis
- Perform an EVA analysis (PV, ROI and Modified ROI)
- Be familiar with the results of the case studies and exercises that reinforce key learning points throughout the course
Prices
- Member (Early Bird)
- $179.00
- Non-Member (Early Bird)
- $229.00
- Member
- $179.00
- Non-Member
- $229.00
Instructors
Kerry E. Roberts, CPA
Kerry E. Roberts, CPA is a frequent public speaker and presenter. In addition to presenting for Surgent, Kerry chairs the Tennessee Senate Committee for Government Operations, which oversees 260 governmental agencies in the state of Tennessee.
Prior to working with the Tennessee General Assembly, Kerry was a business owner and CEO for 25 years. His background includes being president and chairman of a national business association, partner in a CPA firm, audit staff for a "Big 8" accounting firm, and adjunct accounting faculty for Lipscomb University.
Kerry was elected to the Tennessee State Senate in 2014 representing Cheatham, Dickson, Hickman, Humphreys, a portion of Montgomery and Robertson counties.
Kerry is a 1983 graduate of Lipscomb University (accounting major). Married since 1987, Kerry and his wife are the parents of three kids and live in Springfield, Tennessee. His hobbies include cycling, a vintage motorcycle, two antique Triumph convertibles, and tending to a 155-year-old home.
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