Are your budgeting and forecasting processes working as well for you as they should? Probably not, as many organizations report that budgeting and forecasting activities consume tremendous amounts of time and yield only marginal benefits. In this course, you will learn how to achieve a greater return on your budgeting and forecasting activities by taking advantage of various tools and techniques available in today’s market.
This
meeting is part of the Atlantic City CPE Cluster: https://www.njcpa.org/cpe/products/cluster.
DESIGNED FOR
CPAs and other business professionals involved in budgeting and forecasting activities.
BENEFITS
Participants will learn:
Tools, such as Budget Maestro, PROPHIX and Host Analytics and how reducing your dependency on Excel can lead to better results
To account for risk and uncertainty in your budgeting and forecasting models and why doing so is a best practice for more meaningful budgets and forecasts
How to reduce the amount of time you spend on these tasks, while simultaneously increasing their valueHIGHLIGHTS
- Utilize processes for obtaining budget data and collaborating with others when using Excel including Shared and Merged Workbooks, Excel’s Audit Trail, controlling and validating data input and collaborating with others
- Apply various Excel techniques for interacting with the accounting system, such as Office Data Connections, Open Database Connectivity, importing text files and linking Internet-based data into budgeting and forecasting models
- Identify situations in which various Excel techniques are appropriately implemented, such as using Data Tables for sensitivity analysis, working with Excel’s Goal Seek feature, using Solver to maximize scarce resources, working with Scenario Manager, forecasting with Regression Analysis and analyzing risk with Monte Carlo simulations
- Implement various Excel functions – including NPV, IRR, XNPV and XIRR – in capital budgeting situations and identify the various methods by which Excel computes depreciation
- Compare and contrast Excel with other applications used for budgeting and forecasting activities and describe situations in which other solutions should be used to reduce the dependency on Excel as a budgeting and forecasting solution
COURSE LEVEL
Intermediate
PREREQUISITES
Fundamental knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 or newer.
ADVANCE PREPARATION
None
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- This is not a hands-on course.
Course materials are distributed electronically and we’ve passed the savings along to you - registrants save $20 on all 8-hour seminar pricing. To access the materials visit njcpa.org/MyEvents. Download to your laptop or tablet prior to the seminar, handouts are added as received.