Courses / Short Learning Series
Budgeting & Cash Flow
SL-05 · Business finance
Build budgets that people actually use, forecast your cash week by week, and act on variances before they become problems. Practical methods, a driver-based budget, a 13-week cash flow forecast and variance analysis, all worked through with UAE business examples.
Who it's for
Business owners, managers and finance professionals who prepare, own or rely on budgets and cash forecasts.
What you'll be able to do
- Choose the right budgeting method (incremental, zero-based, flexible, driver-based or rolling) for a given situation
- Build a driver-based budget that links revenue and costs to the operational numbers that drive them
- Prepare and roll forward a 13-week cash flow forecast and spot funding gaps early
- Calculate price, volume and usage variances and turn them into clear corrective actions
Lessons
- 1Budget methods and when to use themreading
- 2Building a driver-based budgetreading
- 3The 13-week cash flow forecastreading
- 4Monitoring variances and acting on themreading