Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Planning

Finance & Accounting · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 3,900

Overview

This program provides the skills to build world-class standards into your planning, budgeting, performance measurement, and reporting system. This program will discuss new techniques, explain how they complement the traditional financial planning tools, and introduce new concepts for measuring and reporting performance and shareholder wealth creation. You will explore the issues relating to capital budgeting. Budgeting manufacturing as well as other expenses, identifying profit objectives, budgeting cash requirements, and forecasting are all covered in this program.

Learning Objectives

• Make your budgeting process more cost effective
• Understand how to apply different planning, forecasting and analysis techniques
• Enhance knowledge of forecasting revenue and costs
• Motivate managers for enhanced performance
• Integrate the organization's strategic planning with budgets and processes of cost control
• Get to know activity-based budgeting (and costing)
• Understand capital budgeting techniques & cash flows
• Interpret budgets and performance measurement as communication tools
• Link budgetary processes with quality issues and business process improvement.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for management accountants, process owners, financial planners and cost analysts, and other professionals seeking to strengthen their capability in this area.

• Management accountants
• Process owners
• Financial planners and cost analysts
• Professional advisers
• Accountants and business consultants

Course Outline

Day 1 — Budgets and Strategy in Today’s International Environment

• Organizational planning framework
• The product / information / decision support cycle
• Strategic, tactical, and operational forecasts
• The strategic approach to business planning

Day 2 — The Business Plan and Budget Development

• Developing the business plan
• Identification of key value drivers
• Achieving objectives
• Zero base budgeting

Day 3 — Analyzing the Applicability of Historical Data Using Excel®

• Problems of forecasting
• Using historical data to help predict the future
• Forecasting
• Sales volume

Day 4 — Using Activity-Based Budgeting and Cost Analysis Techniques

• Cost behavior and breakeven analysis
• Activity-based costing
• Budgeting for Processes rather than Departments
• Defining Key Cost Drivers

Day 5 — Capital budgeting and project appraisal

• Identify the various types of capital projects
• Discuss the capital project evaluation process
• The impact time has on the value of money.
• Using WACC and ROIC as benchmarks

Accreditation

Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.

Dates & Venues

Dates	Venue	Delivery	Duration	Fee (USD)
20–24 September 2026	London, UK	Public	5 days	4,950
29 November – 3 December 2026	Riyadh, KSA	Public	5 days	3,900
7–11 December 2026	Marrakech, Morocco	Public	5 days	4,500

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Frequently Asked Questions

What do Al-Khobraa finance and accounting courses cover?

The portfolio covers IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and IPSAS, financial analysis and reporting, budgeting and forecasting, cost and management accounting, accounts payable and receivable, internal controls and audit, and finance for non-finance managers.

Who should attend a finance and accounting course?

These courses suit accountants and financial analysts, finance managers and controllers, budgeting and planning staff, internal auditors, accounts payable and receivable teams, and non-financial managers who own a budget or read financial statements.

How long are finance and accounting courses, and where are they held?

Most Al-Khobraa finance and accounting courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.

What certificate will I receive?

Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.

Can finance and accounting training be delivered in-house for our team?

Yes. Any Al-Khobraa finance and accounting course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.

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