Getting to Grips with Budgets Self Study Course

This course looks at how budgets are prepared. We investigate the use of budgets for keeping control of expenditure and income. We examine the technical processes used in budgeting and identify the role of today’s front-line manager in budget procedures.

• Describe what budgets are, and why they are prepared
• Explain how a budget is used to help an organisation meet its objectives
• Describe your role in preparing budgets for your own area of responsibility
• Participate in the preparation of budget

The course comes complete in a college folder complete with exercises and assignments to check your understanding as you progress complete with all the answers

Target Audience

• Newly appointed team leaders or supervisors
• Anybody wanting to develop a particular management skill

These materials are designed to develop and update skills of potential, newly appointed and experienced supervisors, team leaders and managers, offering a choice of flexible, work based materials to improve individual and organisational performance.

Planning production
Introduction
What is a budget?
Preparing budgets
Budgets and objectives
Preparing budgets
Sales budgets
The limiting factor
Planning production
Sales budgets
Estimating sales
Zero base budgeting
Some benefits of budgets
Cash budgets
Introduction
The importance of feedback and communication
Analysing budgets
Purchases variance
Labour variance
Accountability
Controllable costs
Fixed and variable costs
Flexible budgets
More benefits of budgets
The supervisors role
The team's role