What you'll learn:
- Be able to use the budgeting process to increase teamwork, planning, and control where you work or in your own business.
- Be able to apply the budgeting process to improve organizational performance.
- Be able to speak confidently on the key concepts of the budgeting process including who, what, when, where, and why do a budget.
- Know how to create the suporting schedules required to build a budgeted Income Statement and Balance Sheet.
- Two sets of business data including blank and completed templates to allow you to create a budget right along with the lectures then practice your skills on your own.
- Be able to Identify ethical issues in the budgeting process.
- Be able to create complete budgeted Income Statement and Balance Sheet as well as a flexible budget to assess variances between budgeted and actual performance.
The budgeting process can be a mysterious and scary process for employees who are not accounting experts. The list of benefits that a budget can provide, however, is very long! This course aims to overcome the fear and confusion surrounding the budgeting process by explaining the process and its importance in terms that are easy to understand.
Master the Budgeting Process Using Simple Step by Step Examples
Recognize the benefits and importance of the budgeting process
Create supporting schedules to build a full Income Statement and Balance Sheet
Assess the value of the first draft and revise to create a final polished budget
Use flexible budgets to assess organizational performance
Learn and Master Budgeting Concepts to Drive Organizational Improvements
There are many benefits to the budgeting process when used properly. You can become a more valuable employee or more successful business owner when you are able to understand and contribute to the budgeting process. Budgeting helps promote teamwork, communication, and continuous improvements. The organization’s goals for the coming year are translated into dollars and cents and shared in a way that helps monitor and improve performance.
However, not everyone is comfortable in the world of accounting. This course is perfect for motivated employees and business owners eager to improve their value and contribute in a more meaningful way to the budgeting process.
Contents and Overview
This course contains 24 lectures, 2 budget templates with completed solutions, five quizzes to track your progress, and 2.5 hours of content. It's designed for any employee, current business owner, business student, or future business owner, regardless of experience level, who wishes to improve their contributions to the organization’s success.
In this course, you will learn the why the budgeting process is important, who is involved, when and where data is collected, and what the process entails.
You'll then dive into the nuts and bolts of the budget, learning where the data comes from, how it all fits together, eventually building a complete budgeted Income Statement and Balance Sheet.
And, finally, you'll learn how to assess organizational performance using a flexible budget.
Upon completion of this course you will be well versed in the basic concepts of budgeting, be comfortable with budgeting calculations, and be able to use the budgeting templates provided to create supporting schedules, a budgeted Income Statement, a budgeted Balance Sheet, and calculate variances using a flexible budget.
NEW! Continue learning with Part II: Advanced Budgeting for Business
This course gives you a strong foundation—but your budgeting journey doesn’t have to stop here!
Advanced Budgeting for Business picks up where this course ends, introducing advanced topics like zero-based budgeting, capital budgeting (NPV, IRR, Payback), strategic planning alignment, KPIs, and real-world case studies.
Take your skills to the next level and become a more confident decision-maker and strategic contributor.
Ready to go deeper? Check out the follow-up course, Advanced Budgeting for Business:
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