OBJECTIVE:
What comes to mind when you think of budgeting? Takes too long? No follow-up? It protects the status-quo? If you’ve considered “banning the budget”, this course will show you how to transform it into a planning process that helps your organization achieve its strategy. 

Discover 21 tips to change your budgeting process that results in a detailed one year budget, to a planning process resulting in a strategic, progressive and long-term achievement of your goals. 

LEARNING OUTCOME: 
By the end of this course, participants should be able to: 

• Recognize key differences between planning and budgeting 
• Identify best practices to use in your planning process
• Define key elements of rolling forecasts

CONTENT:
The topics in this seminar include: 

• Budgeting Best Practices 
• SWOT Analysis 
• The 80/20 rule 
• Common budget problems 
• Rolling forecasts 
• Spontaneous assets and liabilities
• The effects of bad data 

APPLICABLE FOR: 
CPAs, corporate finance teams, business leaders and other financial professionals. 

WHAT TO EXPECT:

• After registering for the on-demand course, you will receive an email from Bridge (AICPA) with your login information within two business days. 
• You will be required to sign into Bridge to access your course. To create a password for your Bridge account, use the forgot password link. The email from Bridge may take a few minutes to arrive. Please also check your junk folder.
• You will have 180 days after registration to complete the course.  
• This self-study course allows the user to save their progress and return to continue later.