Budgeting essentials and development

As the budgeting process needs strategic guidelines, and these guidelines drive the planning process, corporate managers develop the budget plan accordingly to the strategic guidelines.The budget contributes to the roll-out of programs, projects, and actions to implement in the organization. These programs and projects are planned in the budget development process. In this module of the course, the discussions aim to overview the transition between strategy to the budget planning process.

The course is targeted to professionals who actively participate in the budgeting process, e.g., professionals who have been recently promoted to a managing position, in which the scope of responsibilities are broader, especially in the budget planning, monitoring, and control. Pre-requisites to benefit the most from this course is basic to intermediate business management knowledge and concepts.

The corporate budgeting process begins with the strategic guidelines, goes through the discussions of what may be the influence of the guidelines on the assumptions, and culminate in supporting the budget planning process. In this module, the discussions are about the aspects related to this process. Learning objectives include understanding the link between corporate budgeting and the business unit budgeting process; aligning strategic guidelines with planning guidelines, and assessing the connections of the corporate budget to the business level budget.

In this module, the discussion goes through a step-by-step framework to support the budget development.

Each of the steps represents a relevant component of the budget, and the links between the budget of each area of the company are discussed. The integration of the different area's budget is one of the primary objectives of this module, which will lead learners to an integrative view of the budget development. And this integration is the key learning objective of the module.

In this module, the discussion goes through a step-by-step framework to support the budget development.

Each of the steps represents a relevant component of the budget, and the links between the budget of each area of the company are discussed. The integration of the different area's budget is one of the primary objectives of this module, which will lead learners to an integrative view of the budget development. And this integration is the key learning objective of the module.