Finance · Professional · Corporate
IBFBFM
Integrating Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning
Finance
Professional level
10 Modules
40 Topics
Corporate
In-house or live virtual
Certification
Blue Ocean Academy certificate
IBFBFM
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About the IBFBFM Program
Budgets, forecasts and the business plan are often produced by different people using different assumptions, and they stop agreeing within a quarter. The program shows how to build one planning process: shared assumptions, a driver based budget, a rolling forecast that updates it and a business plan the numbers support. Delivered in-house at the client's premises or live virtual, it gives finance and operating teams a single planning cycle.
What You Will Learn
- Understand how planning, budgeting and forecasting connect
- Build a budget from business drivers
- Design a rolling forecast process that works
- Align departmental plans with the business plan
- Analyze variances and update forecasts accordingly
- Implement a planning calendar with clear ownership
- Evaluate assumptions and test them under scenarios
- Communicate the plan to budget holders clearly
What you take away
Skills You'll Build
Budget preparation
Rolling forecasts
Variance analysis
Planning governance
Core Topics
Who Is This Program For?
Finance managers
Run one cycle instead of three
Budget holders
Build budgets on drivers, not guesswork
Planning analysts
Update forecasts on a reliable rhythm
Department heads
Connect your plan to the budget
Financial controllers
Consolidate plans with fewer reworks
Business unit managers
Explain variances and act on them
What's Included?
Delivery at your premises or live virtual for your team- Budget model templates, forecast trackers and variance report formats
- Working sessions using your own budget cycle and data
- Certificate of completion issued by Blue Ocean Academy
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Corporate training terms and scheduling policies apply
Course Outline
- Strategy, plan, budget and forecast
- Why the three drift apart
- One set of assumptions
- Roles across the cycle
Every participant receives a Blue Ocean Academy certificate of completion
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