Online Budgeting eLearning Training

Quicken 2002 Level 2 This course is an intermediate look at Quicken 2002. It explores some of the more advanced features of the software and familiarizes students with some useful tips to more efficient use of Quicken. The course will cover the various financial centers and planners, transactions, financial alerts, transaction categories, budgeting, taxes, asset and liability accounts, reports and graphs and more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance - Budgeting Basics MAXIM TRAINING At work, as managers, we're all involved in the budgeting process in some way or another. But few of us understand why budgeting is so important. Before you begin budgeting yourself, you need to grasp some key concepts. This course explores some basic questions about budgeting: What is a budget? Why are budgets necessary? What's involved at each stage of the budgeting process? more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Preparing your Budget MAXIM TRAINING Planning and submitting a budget for the first time can be a daunting task. Many of us approach our first budget with little or no formal training. It can be a nightmare! Effective budgeting is crucial to both you and your department. And because it's important, it's vital you budget properly. Too many managers make half-hearted attempts and then wonder why ACTUAL spend is nothing more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Managing your Budget MAXIM TRAINING Preparing a budget and following it through to approval involves a lot of work. But it's only the beginning! Once approved, the budget needs careful management to ensure your plans become a reality. This process starts from day one and continues throughout the year. This course provides a structured approach for managing your budget. It shows how to: Review your budget to identify more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Understanding Balance Sheets MAXIM TRAINING Here's some of the questions asked about companies: What's a healthy business? What's the right balance of debt in company funding? How should a company's funds be employed? Most of us have no idea of the financial realities that underpin our companies. That's where this course will help! It introduces some basic financial principles. You'll understand your own role in your more...

Understanding Budgeting and Finance: Understanding Profit and Loss MAXIM TRAINING Profit is a key business goal and a fundamental source of growth. But for most of us, it remains a vague notion. How is profit generated? How is it measured? How do individual managers contribute to profit? What happens to it? more...

Finance for the Non Financial : Budgeting for Different Business Conditions From the corporate world to the corner shop, from running a restaurant to controlling a production line -- you just can't avoid the need to understand money. This course will help you understand how to use budgets as a management tool: for solving problems, taking smart decisions and improving teamwork and communication. It will show you how different types of cost behave and how their behaviour more...

Managing Resources: Planning: Scheduling, Staffing and Budgeting When you are responsible for the success of your team and for contributing to the profitability and competitiveness of your organisation it's not enough to rely on flying by the seat of your pants. more...

Project Management: Estimating Costs This program provides team members with the skills and processes necessary to estimate the cost of the resources needed for a project. Participants learn how to develop a cost baseline and overcome problems that will produce errors when estimating project costs. They also develop an understanding of the importance of cost control throughout a project's life. more...

Financial Management: Budgeting Essentials In Financial Management: Budgeting Essentials, participants learn how to create and enforce a budget by analyzing financial statements, setting objectives, and monitoring performance. more...

Budgeting and Controlling Costs ...he inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs for the Cost Budgeting and Cost Control processes. Through interactive learning strategies and real-life scenarios, the learner will explore these processes and gain a better understanding of the Project Cost Management knowledge area. This course is aligned with "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK Guide) - Third Edition, more...

Project Management Government This course focuses on project management for Federal Government agencies. Specifically, the course focuses on the differences between project management in a private organization and in the federal government This course series is designed for project managers who have a fundamental understanding of project management concepts, but are looking to apply these concepts within their government more...

Program Planning The planning phase in PMI's PMBOK is considered one of the most important phases; without a properly defined plan your projects have a much greater chance of not succeeding. This assumption can also be made for program management; however, with program management, an entire program can fail, which could include several projects. The cost and loss of benefits that are associated with a failed more...

Leadership in Management Simulation Specializing in the film and television industries, Limelight Connections is a web-based, career-search company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. As part of the marketing team, you have been with Limelight for just under two years. Your dedication, industry knowledge and hard work have paid off, recently earning you a promotion to manager of the department. But with the new title comes new more...

Managerial Decisions and Capital Budgeting Business decisions involve choosing between alternative courses of action and developing formal plans for future action. This course explains several methods of analysis that can help business managers to choose alternatives that offer the highest rate of return on investment or the greatest reduction in costs. In this course, topics such as capital budgeting and managerial decisions provide you more...

PrimeFinance Budgeting Matters This course describes how to relate budgeting and the key budgeting methods to a manager's work. Project managers and department managers who need to take on budgetary responsibilities and input into business decisions . more...

PrimeFinance Making Investment Decisions ...course describes the decision points that support capital budgeting within an organization, and continues to explore how a range of techniques (including CVP, NPV, payback, IRR, and ARR) can be used to conduct short- and long-term project evaluations within this process. Department managers who need to take on budgetary responsibilities, input into business decisions and participate effectively more...

Introduction to Advanced Finance Don't be intimidated by corporate finance and choosing appropriate investment projects. If you are a corporate manager faced with choosing between different investment projects, this course will be helpful. You will review Time Value of Money concepts, and learn how to choose corporate projects using accounting models and cash flow models. This course is designed specifically for business more...

Managing Working Capital Working capital management influences both a firm's risks and its expected returns. As such, it is an important determinant of firm value. Investment and financing decisions are interconnected, thus they cannot be made independently. Financial planning will make you think systematically about the relationships among your goals for growth, investment, and financing. After completing this course, more...

Writing the Marketing Plan Creative Strategy You've completed the first part of your marketing plan. Now it's time to write about your marketing tactics. You'll discover just how to match your product with your target market, determining exactly what the competitive advantages of your particular product are. Then you'll explore the price-setting strategies that will help make your product a success. Marketing managers, supervisors or team more...

Financial Analysis for Successful Marketing Whether you have a "head" for numbers, or a "dread" of numbers, no strategic marketing plan will be successful without a thorough financial analysis. The final course in this series takes a user-friendly, interactive approach to help you master the numbers game. You will analyze typical financial parameters associated with setting up a financial budget as part of an overall marketing strategy. more...

Financial Management - Financial Planning and Forecasting This course will provide a basic introduction to financial planning and forecasting and how this process is important in the firm meeting its financial goals. We will describe the planning process (also known as budgeting) and how the plan once established is implemented.  more...

Project Management: Estimating Costs This course covers resource identification, life cycle costing, the tools used to identify necessary project resources, and how to assign resources to activities. This program also includes instruction on how to use the work breakdown structure to complete cost approximation, how to use resource rates, estimating publications, historical information, and how to use a chart of accounts when more...

Financial Statements: Financial Statements Analysis Financial Statements: Financial Statements Analysis offers the student an overview of financial statements budgets and ratio analysis. The program details how to create a balance sheet and income statement the purpose of these financial statements the role of budgeting in accounting how to combat budgeting variances and the different methods of analyzing financial statements.  more...

Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget Budgeting: Creating and Analyzing a Budget gives the student an overview of the purpose of budgeting the types of budgets and the elements of a successful budget. The program includes a process for creating a budget ways to analyze and compare budgets and important guidelines to apply during the budgeting process.  more...

Budgeting: Operating and Manufacturing Budgets ...Budgeting: Operating and Manufacturing Budgets gives the student an overview of operating and manufacturing budgets variance analysis and forecasting. The program covers terms and practices unique to operating and manufacturing budgets as well as methods for creating operating and manufacturing budgets. Additionally the program covers several options for devising an action plan to solve a more...

Budgeting: Capital Budgeting Budgeting: Capital Budgeting gives the student an overview of capital budgeting basics methods for discounting cash flows and how discount rates are determined. This program includes a process for assembling a capital budget and one for justifying a capital budget. Additionally the program outlines how capital budgets are evaluated and approved.  more...

Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling and Budgeting Project Management Essentials: Project Scheduling and Budgeting offers the student an overview of the information required to develop a project schedule and budget. The program details types of network diagrams Gantt charts CPM scheduling and activity duration compression. In addition the program details actions for optimizing project activities and factors that influence cost estimating.  more...