Forecasting for Financial Managers

Booking with a Training Ticket

Once you have booked your course, you will receive an email with your booking confirmation. The steps you will need to follow to access your online course will arrive in a separate email within 48 hours of your order being processed

Please be aware that participants will have access to this course for 120 days from the date of receiving access via email notification

Course overview 

The rate of change in the business environment is greater than ever before and managers are recognising that they have to spend more time looking forward. For you, the finance professional, this is vitally important but not necessarily straightforward. Coming to terms with judgements about the future, which are subject to significant margins of error, requires a particular set of skills.

As well as describing the principles of forecasting, this course looks at their application, especially in decision-making. It covers interpretative statistics, short / medium range forecasting and long-range forecasting. 

Looking to the future

• What are forecasts for?
• Why has forecasting become more important of late?
• Where does forecasting fit within a structure of financial control?
• Responsibility for forecasting

Statistics

• Basics
• Probability of dispersion
• Correlation
• Regression

Short and medium range

• Hedging
• Predictive modelling
• Standard Costing
• Budgetary control

Long range

• Demographics
• Devolution
• The value of money
• Some relevant techniques