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COURSE OVERVIEW

FM0044 : Planning Budget Preparation Skills
Planning Budget Preparation Skills
OVERVIEW
COURSE TITLE : FM0044 : Planning Budget Preparation Skills
COURSE DATE : Jul 20 - Jul 24 2025
DURATION : 5 Days
INSTRUCTOR : Mr. Mike Taylor
VENUE : Dubai, UAE
COURSE FEE : $ 5500
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Course Description

 
 
This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using “MS-Excel” application. 
 
This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Budget Preparation Skills. It covers the importance and key terminologies of costing and budgeting in business; the types of budgets covering fixed budgets, flexible budgets, zero-based budgets and activity-based budgeting (ABB); the cost allocation techniques and budgeting objectives, organizational alignment and stages of the budgeting process; the zero-based budgeting (ZBB) and activity-based budgeting (ABB); the revenue forecasting techniques; and the differences between operating and capital budgets. 
 
During this interactive course, participants will learn the corrective actions based on variance analysis and the advanced budgeting models; the organizational resources and costs and revenue stream analysis and cost-revenue analysis reports; the operating budgets, optimize budgeting processes and proper budgeting for decision making; linking budgets to strategic goals, setting up monitoring frameworks and performance evaluation using budgets; the risk management, risk mitigation strategies and scenario analysis; and the future trends in budgeting. 

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

Lectures
Practical Workshops & Work Presentations
Hands-on Practical Exercises & Case Studies
Simulators (Hardware & Software) & Videos

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates : Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials : Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology : 80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program : 4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30

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