Budget planning and control for assistance

Targeted support with expertise and structure

This training is held in German.
Budget planning at the beginning of the financial year often requires support in the planning process. The assistant often takes over the control and organization of the budgets for the superiors. In this training , you will receive practical tips on creating overhead budgets. With the help of checklists and planning aids, the planning process is organized efficiently and the planning data is compiled in a reliable and comprehensible manner. The focus is on the systematic and routine preparation of budget planning in order to reduce planning stress and increase planning reliability.

Contents

The function of controlling in planning

  • Controlling as a service and cross-sectional function.
  • The most important tasks of controlling.
  • Controlling as a manager of planning.

Overview of accounting as a basis for planning

  • Connection between income statement and balance sheet.
  • Comparison of financial accounting vs. cost accounting.
  • Budgeting takes place in cost accounting.

Planning in the company

  • Planning concept.
  • Benefits of planning.
  • Types of planning and planning procedures.
  • AI and business analytics in planning.

Excursus: Cost center accounting (indispensable basis of the budgeting process)

Importance of overheads in planning

  • Selected cost types and how to plan them.
  • Planning of allocation costs.
  • Problem and solution of time delimitation.

Individual steps of overhead budgeting in the administrative area

  • Procedure.
  • Organization and planning steps.
  • Budgeting process.
  • Planning calendar (backward scheduling).
  • Checklist for individual planning activities with the person responsible and deadline.
  • Which cost types and to what level of detail?
  • Identifying potential savings (only within departments and superiors).
  • Coordination of planned budgets with superiors and controlling.

Budget control

  • Deviation analysis (plan/stab deviation).
  • Role of planning assumptions in variance analysis.
  • Variance analysis and accounting.
  • What role does the commitment play?

Practical transfer for qualified assistance

  • What information do you need?
  • Processing of information.
  • Opportunities for personal initiative.
  • Competent advice and support from superiors.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • The connection between corporate planning and the planning of the overhead budget becomes clear.
  • The budgeting process is prepared and implemented in a structured and systematic manner.
  • Deviation analyses are determined and interpreted more reliably.
  • Supervisors are relieved of the burden of the budgeting process and budget control.
  • Planning stress is reduced by starting planning at an early stage and following a clearly structured procedure.
  • The quality of planning is improved by the inclusion of reliable data (e.g. current contracts).
  • The informative value of the variance analysis is increased by the documentation of the planning assumptions (budget control).

The content wishes and expectations are queried in advance to ensure that the training meets the specific needs.

Methods

Projector presentation, case studies, practical exercises, group work, discussion.

Recommended for

employees from assistant, secretarial and administrative positions with little or no prior knowledge of controlling.

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