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Course Title:
Budgeting

Units: 7

Quizzes and Tests - Included/Optional

Course Summary:
by G. Liam Thompson

How you will benefit:

  • Learn about Budgeting and the Corporate Planning Process
  • Implement the practical steps in a budgeting process
  • Sales forecasting involving a variety of factors
  • Employ good management techniques in order to allow your company to control the flow of money into and out of its treasury
  • Discover how to assign customers to a basic profitability category
  • Manage costs through cost behavior patterns, and budget segmentation

What you will learn:

  1. Budgeting and the Corporate Planning Process

    • An overview of the budgeting process
    • The corporate planning process
    • Strategic planning and competitive advantages
    • How to set goals and objectives

  2. Practical Aspects of Budgeting

    • Steps in the budgeting process
    • The duties of the budget committee
    • The two major types of budgeting
    • The objective and three major steps of a benchmark program

  3. The Master Budget

    • The importance of a master budget
    • A break-down of monthly income statements
    • Defining various types of assets
    • Understanding comparative income statements

  4. Cost Management

    • Identifying cost behavior patterns
    • Differentiating fixed costs and variable costs
    • The benefits of the contributed income statement
    • Understanding budget segmentation

  5. Cost Management, Part 2

    • The 2 basic types of cost equations
    • The 4 means of estimating cost behavior patterns
    • How to use the method of performance variance

  6. Budgeting Techniques: Manufacturing Companies

    • The 2 budgeting aspects of manufacturing companies
    • How and when to use a production budget
    • Explanation and examples of activity-based budgeting
    • Determining the performance variance

  7. Budgeting Techniques: Retail Companies

    • Understanding a retail sales budget
    • Forecasting in a marketing budget
    • The four types of sales forecasting
    • Understanding activity-based sales budgeting

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