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Dates and location
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Hours
Description
In many organizations the budget is a necessary evil. Is it possible to enhance the budget to be more effective and efficient? We will show you how. This seminar focuses on improving the entire budget process including how to prevent budgeting missteps, creating flexible budget models and how to deal with budgeting’s people issues. Organizations often fall into the trap of following the same steps of annual budgeting without weeding out the flaws that creep in. For large and small organizations looking to refresh the results, purpose, and engagement of their budgeting, several key tools will be discussed. Learn more about the keys of successful budgets. This seminar will show you a step-by-step method to improve the entire budget process.
Topics Include:
- What are the steps we can take to budget for external factors beyond our control?
- Common budgetary problems and discussion of solutions
- How to build a flexible budget model that works
- How to build a volume sensitive model
- Budgeting to GAAP and for the Board to understand
- Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
- Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense
- Using key variables to stress-test your budget
- Managing and coping with the budget team
- Effectively dealing with the A, B, C and other players
- How to communicate so others can understand the budget
- Tips and tricks for budget presentations
Who Will Benefit
This seminar is for anyone involved with the budget process; including CFOs, COOs, Controllers, CEOs, accountants, Board members, consultants and those who advise them.
How to Access the Course
This course is a live webinar. You must attend the live course to receive verifiable CPD hours. We recommend you join five minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. To get the full experience of this interactive course, use a computer that has video and microphone capabilities.
Electronic material can be accessed one week prior to the course and should be downloaded in advance.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
Brian Maturi, MBA, FCA has 45 years’ financial management experience in the UK and US, including five years with Deloitte Touche and 22 years with BorgWarner, Inc. where he was a divisional VP-Finance and Corporate Director of Risk Management. His favorite topics include ethics of risk management, management accounting and currency, commodity, and interest rate hedging. Brian holds a bachelor’s in Economics, an MBA and is an English Institute of Chartered Accountants fellow.