Overview

Need to understand your personal budget or you are a treasurer for a club or society?

This course will cover the following topics:

  • Getting to grips with budgeting principles
  • Understanding the basics of costing products
  • Learning to forecast with greater accuracy

We’ll take you through the absolute essentials of budgeting, starting with unpicking all the financial jargon, so you’ll leave with a deeper understanding of financial terms and greater confidence in controlling budgets, including:

  • Why budgeting is so important for your business
  • Building your business strategy
  • How to create, implement and monitor your budget
  • Accurate product costing
  • Understanding overhead allocation
  • Forecasting income and expenditure
  • Techniques for forecasting
  • The factors that influence our decisions
  • Tackling ratio analysis
  • An overview of management accounts and financial reports, from balance sheets and cash flow to profit and loss

If you have any questions, please email: sutraining@bucks.ac.uk