Advanced Budgeting, Forecasting and Cost Management 2011

This Course Will Focus On:

- Gain an understanding of how modern budgetary techniques can provide real support to business managers.
- Avoid the traditional limitations often associated with budgeting.
- Discover how to use the different but aligned disciplines of forecasting and budgeting to complement each other.
- Ensure that you achieve effective alignment of strategy, business planning and budgeting.
- Learn about successful (not dysfunctional) cost management from case studies.

Who Should Attend?

CFO’s, Chief Operating Officers, Directors, Chief Accountants, Business Units & Departmental Managers, Managers, Analysts, Controllers, Advisors and Heads of :

Finance
Budgeting and Control
Planning & Control
Forecasting and Cost
Management Accountants
Business Planning
Strategic Business Unit
Performance Management
Sales & Marketing
Purchasing
Business Development

From the following sectors, but not limited to:

Manufacturing
Electronics
FMCG
Banking and Finance
Mining & Minerals
Oil and Gas
Construction
Retail
Travel and Hospitality
IT, Telecommunications
Automotive Industry
Pharmaceutical
Logistics
Public Sector

About Your Course Leader:

The Course Leader is a highly experienced, UK based, international specialist in strategic performance management, having spent 30 years involved in a wide range of corporate performance- both in policy formulation and in practical application roles. For the past 14 years he has operated as an independent management disciplines, with a special emphasis on:

Budgeting/Cost Management
Strategy Execution through the Balanced Scorecard

He is a highly sought out conference and seminar leader, having facilitated more than 20