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Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts


Total Credits: 2 including 2 Accounting - Technical

Average Rating:
   83
Categories:
Accounting and Auditing |  ACPEN Industry Institute |  Industry
Faculty:
Gary Cokins, MBA, CPIM
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
2 Hours
License:
Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.

Dates
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Description

The annual budgeting process is often criticized as an accounting exercise that is obsolete soon after it is published, prone to gamesmanship, cumbersome, not volume sensitive, and disconnected from the organization's strategy and risk management processes. You can resolve these deficiencies using capacity-sensitive driver-based projections. Driver-based budgeting allows for quick scenario planning and far easier analysis of a growing organization whose future may look nothing like today. The driver-based budgets can be periodically refreshed to create rolling financial forecasts extending well beyond the fiscal year end. Learn how managerial accounting can become managerial economics.

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • Understand how to create driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts

Major Subjects
  • The shift to “predictive accounting” for Decision Making, Planning, and Budgeting
  • Problems with traditional annual budget processes
  • Develop a driver-based “operational budget” based on resource capacity planning
  • Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable
  • Create closed loop capacity plans
  • Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts
  • Integrating enterprise risk management (ERM) with management accounting
  • Applying target costing for cost estimating

Course Materials

Faculty

Gary Cokins, MBA, CPIM's Profile

Gary Cokins, MBA, CPIM Related Seminars and Products


Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in performance improvement systems and advanced cost management.

Gary received a BS degree with honors (Tau Beta Pi; Alpha Pi Mu) in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He was a two year varsity football letterman. He received his MBA with honors (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC Corporation and subsequently served as Financial Controller and Operations Manager with FMC’s Link-Belt division. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte Consulting. Next with KPMG, Gary was trained on activity-based costing (ABC) by Harvard Business School Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper. 

 

With KPMG working with Dr. David Norton, Gary was also involved with initial research that led to the development of the Balanced Scorecard. Prior to joining SAS, Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now part of HP. In 1996 Gary joined ABC Technologies which was acquired in 2002 by SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics software, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. At SAS he was a principal consultant and retired in 2012.

Gary was the lead author of the acclaimed An ABC Manager’s Primer (ISBN 0-86641-220-4), sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). Gary’s second book, Activity Based Cost Management: Making it Work (ISBN 0-7863-0740-4), was judged by the Harvard Business School Press as “read this book first.” A reviewer for Gary’s third book, Activity Based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide (ISBN 0-471-44328-X) said, Gary has the gift to take the concept that many view as complex and reduce it to its simplest terms.” This book was ranked number one in sales volume of 151 similar books on BarnesandNoble.com. Gary has also written Activity Based Cost Management in Government (ISBN 1-056726-110-8). His five most recent books are Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap (ISBN 0-471-57690-5), Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics (ISBN 978-0-470-44998-1), Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance (ISBN 978-1-93735-081-9), Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting in Uncertain Times (ISBN 978-1-94012-531-8), and Predictive Business Analytics (ISBN 978-1-118-17556-9).

Gary has participated and served on committees including: CAM-I, the Supply Chain Council, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the Institute of Management Accountants, the AICPA, and the American Association of Accountants (AAA).

Gary serves on the board of advisers for organizations including an advisory board with Harvard Business School Professor, Robert S. Kaplan, for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).


Dates

Wed, Dec 18, 2024 - 02:00pm to 03:48pm MST
Sat, Dec 28, 2024 - 08:00am to 09:48am MST
Mon, Jan 13, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:48pm MST
Fri, Jan 24, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:48am MST
Thu, Feb 06, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:48pm MST
Tue, Feb 18, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:48pm MST
Sat, Feb 22, 2025 - 08:00am to 09:48am MST
Thu, Mar 13, 2025 - 05:00pm to 06:48pm MDT
Wed, Mar 26, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:48pm MDT
Thu, Apr 03, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:48pm MDT
Fri, Apr 18, 2025 - 09:00am to 10:48am MDT
Wed, May 14, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:48pm MDT
Thu, May 29, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:48pm MDT
Tue, Jun 03, 2025 - 05:00pm to 06:48pm MDT
Fri, Jun 13, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:48pm MDT
Thu, Jun 26, 2025 - 01:00pm to 02:48pm MDT
Sat, Jun 28, 2025 - 08:00am to 09:48am MDT

Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites Some budgeting experience is helpful
Advanced Preparation None
Course Developer Executive Education, Inc.
Designed For CFOs, Controllers and other corporate financial professionals
Yellow Book No
Original Recording Date 11/10/2022
Date Added to Catalog 10/03/2023

Additional Information

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Comments

Michael T

"Great analysis!"

Melissa J

"I really enjoyed this webinar. He described many of the budgeting shortcomings I have encountered during my career. I like that he was candid about it. I have a little more ownership in the budgeting process now, and look forward to reevaluating and evolving it. Thank you for your insight!"