Published by FT Publishing International (December 14, 2012) © 2013
Nigel WyattGain the knowledge and confidence you need to build and manage budgets and forecast financial information.
This book demystifies budgets and forecasts, providing simple explanations and clear examples. It includes integrated checklists, goals and milestones, to ensure you are on target to achieve the best results.
Part of The Financial Times Essential Guides series: Task-focused and results-orientated, the essential guides are for every manager who wants to move their skills beyond the ordinary to the best.
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- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 Preparing your budgets
- 1 What is the budget for?
- 2 What is a forecast and how does it differ from a budget?
- 3 Essential background financial skills for budgeting
- 4 How should the budget be built?
- 5 How should cash be budgeted and controlled?
- 6 How should capital expenditure be budgeted for?
- Part 2 Managing your budget and delivering performance
- 7 Back to basics: living within your means and delivering VFM
- 8 Making sense of standard costing and variances
- 9 Risks, forecasts, balanced scorecards and KPIs
- 10 Delegating budgets to others
- 11 Beyond budgeting
- Part 3 Reviewing your budgeting and forecasting performance
- 12 What lessons have you learned?
- Index