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Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts

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2.00 Credits

Member Price $79.00

Non-Member Price $129.00

Overview

The annual budgeting process is often criticized as an accounting exercise that is obsolete soon after it is published, prone to gamesmanship, cumbersome, not volume sensitive, and disconnected from the organization's strategy and risk management processes. You can resolve these deficiencies using capacity-sensitive driver-based projections. Driver-based budgeting allows for quick scenario planning and far easier analysis of a growing organization whose future may look nothing like today. The driver-based budgets can be periodically refreshed to create rolling financial forecasts extending well beyond the fiscal year end. Learn how managerial accounting can become managerial economics.



  • Course Instructor: Gary Cokins
  • Highlights

    • The shift to “predictive accounting” for Decision Making, Planning, and Budgeting
    • Problems with traditional annual budget processes
    • Develop a driver-based “operational budget” based on resource capacity planning
    • Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable
    • Create closed loop capacity plans
    • Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts
    • Integrating enterprise risk management (ERM) with management accounting
    • Applying target costing for cost estimating

    Prerequisites

    Some budgeting experience is helpful

    Designed For

    CFOs, Controllers and other corporate financial professionals

    Objectives

    • Understand how to create driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts

    Preparation

    None

    Notice

    This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by ACPEN. Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.

    Non-Member Price $129.00

    Member Price $79.00