Dates and location
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Dates and location
Pricing
Hours
Description
Gain mastery in budget vs actual (BvA) analysis using Microsoft Excel in this comprehensive course. Designed for finance professionals and business analysts, this course provides step-by-step guidance on creating a dynamic BVA template to help monitor financial performance effectively. Starting from the basics of template setup, you’ll learn to populate budget and actual figures, calculate variances, and apply visual indicators to highlight favourable and adverse results. Through the use of essential Excel functions such as VLOOKUP, SUMIF, and conditional formatting, this course empowers you to analyse variances accurately on both an annual and monthly basis.
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Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Transform raw financial data into structured costing reports by applying Excel functions and layout best practices.
- Compute and analyse cost gaps by comparing actual costs against target profit margins using batch-level data.
- Apply key costing concepts in Excel, including prime costs, overhead absorption, and cost per unit analysis.
- Develop visually insightful BVA dashboards, using conditional formatting, pie charts, and logic-based indicators for management reporting.
Who Will Benefit
This course is ideal for finance professionals, business analysts, and anyone involved in financial reporting or performance monitoring. It helps them accurately analyse budget vs actual variances and create dynamic Excel dashboards to support better financial decision-making and performance tracking.
How to Access the Course
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Speaker(s)
Learnsignal is a fully online accountancy and finance training provider, partnering with institutes around the world to deliver expert CPD training and help accountants of all levels upskill and grow their careers. With headquarters in Dublin, and a wealth of heritage in the education and accountancy training industry, Learnsignal have quickly become one of the largest Online Training Providers in the world.