The Controllership Series - Addressing Budgeting Uncertainty

Overview

With new accounting standards, the economic landscape and evolving technology, accounting, financial reporting and finance continue to grow in complexity. FASB has tried to address the growing complexity, by working towards making GAAP less convoluted.  The struggle to stay on top of accounting financial reporting requirements and finance changes due to the economy continues for several reasons. Lack of in-house SMEs, managing high volumes of transactions, and data and evolving information technology systems.

In the future, executives must consider the challenges they will face in future years that will bring their own nuances and complexities. Budgeting is certainly one of those processes that must be evaluated and re-evaluated for efficiency. This session delves into the corporate budgeting process and discusses methods used and which methods may or may not allow for the organization’s to properly plan for a volatile future.

Highlights

• Accounting
• Finance

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Controllers, Accountants, Finance Professionals, Auditors

Objectives

• Examine top challenges/opportunities
  • Evaluating budget uncertainty
• Examine the types of budgeting processes
  • Incremental
  • Activity-based
  • Value proposition
  • Zero-based

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.