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FP&A Professional Contractor Forecasting & Analysis Overview
CFI’s “FP&A Professional Contractor Forecasting & Analysis” course will help you filter through any past challenges you may have had to learn best-in-class approaches to forecasting contractor costs in FP&A models. This course will also include a summary of the company’s cost of goods sold (COGS) and selling, general & administrative (SG&A) for the income statement.FP&A Professional Contractor Forecasting & Analysis Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:- Explore functions in Excel to accurately calculate the number of workdays per period for the financial model.
- Use functions to detect whether there has been a scheduling issue with any of the contractors listed on payroll.
- Evaluate ways to schedule payables for contractors that mimic how these costs impact the company from a cash perspective.
- Summarize accrued amounts for cost of goods sold (COGS) and selling, general & administrative (SG&A) for use on the company’s income statement.