Financial Planning & Analysis

Learn the Fundamental Mechanics of Financial Planning

Best Seller course, over 120.000 students

Learn how to Build a Company's Budget

What Will I Learn?

• Prepare a Company's Budget from Scratch
• Perform Top-Down and Bottom-up Forecasting
• Forecast a Company's Sales
• Forecast a Company's Planned Level of Production
• Calculate Net Cash Flow
• Forecast Various Types of Expenditures
• Estimate Working Capital Needs
• Carry out a Fixed Asset Rollforward
• Build an Integrated Financial Model

Looking to boost your income as a financial analyst?

Willing to acquire valuable skills that will set you aside from the competition?

You’ve come to the right place!

Financial Planning & Analysis: Building a Company’s Budget from Scratch guides you through the core principles of Financial Planning and helps you to understand how a company prepares its budget. The video lessons touch on several technical topics such as revenue forecasting, cost planning, working capital development, fixed assets roll-forward, and cash flow calculation. Besides that, we will discuss why firms need budgets, which are the financial statements that a company uses to create its budget, what types of budgets are there, which are the main techniques used in financial planning, who is involved in the preparation of a budget, and who is interested in the final numbers that are signed-off in the budget. Specializing in these topics will turn you into a valuable, indispensable member of any company’s Finance team.

Experienced Instructor

In this course 365 Careers brings in a guest lecturer - a Finance professional with significant real world experience working for companies like 3M and Coca-Cola. As part of the Financial Planning & Analysis department of these firms, Marian has participated in a complete budgeting exercise on several occasions. He is the right teacher for you because he understands how to explain a complicated topic in an easy to comprehend way. He is passionate about teaching and will always be available to answer your questions.

Well structured

This course shows it all, with no steps skipped. The lessons are easy, time-efficient and well structured. We have used a number of teaching methods! Video lectures, Theory, Real business Examples, Animations, Quiz Questions, Case Studies, a Course Challenge ... you name it!