This course will expose students to one of the critical elements of national security and defense policy — national security and resource planning — underscoring the synergistic relationship between policy, strategy, and resources. Ideally, resource planning should service broader U.S. national security and foreign policy interests, providing a basis from which successful policies can be prioritized and executed. Knowledge of national security resource planning is essential to gaining a fuller understanding of U.S. national security policy, foreign policy, defense and military policy, and intelligence policy.
Wayne A. Schroeder
Adjunct Professor; Member, Board of Advisors, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
Semester Available
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This course may be taken as a part of the following programs:
Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs
Executive Master of Arts in National Security Affairs
Master of Arts in Statecraft and Strategy (Online)
Professional Master of Arts in Statecraft and Strategy (Online)
Certificate in American Foreign Policy
Certificate in Intelligence
Certificate in National Security Affairs
Certificate in Statecraft (Online)
Continuing Education Program
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An interactive 5-day training course, budgeting, forecasting and the planning process, integrated approach to financial planning, course introduction.
This Budgeting, Forecasting and the Planning Process training course provides the theoretical basis and necessary skills to develop world class strategic planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes. A strategy is a long-term plan of what an organisation is going to do to achieve its overall policy. This training course will enable delegates to develop a framework that links strategies to annual budget and targets and aims for world class levels of management and organisational performance.
A budget is a short-term plan of how an organisation quantifies the operational activities required to achieve its long-term strategy. This training course will provide delegates with the skills and forecasting techniques to develop a budget as a plan, and use control budgets and analysis of variances to actual to identify areas in which financial performance may be improved.
This Oxford Management Centre training course will highlight:
Links between Strategic Financial Planning, Forecasting, and Budgeting
Effective Excel and other Forecasting Techniques to support Financial Planning and Budgeting
Impacts on Financial Plans of alternative methods of Financing, and Business and Financial risk
Traditional and Modern Costing Systems that are used in the Budget Process
Best Practice in Operating Budgeting, Budgetary Control, Capital Investment Budgeting, and Cash Forecasting and Budgeting
By the end of this Budgeting, Forecasting and the Planning Process training course, participants will learn how to:
Improve their ability to think strategically and participate in the integration of the organisation’s strategic management and budgeting processes
Use forecasting techniques most appropriate to their organisation’s strategic planning and budgeting
Apply the techniques that relate to the key principles of financial management: shareholder wealth maximisation; cash flow; time value of money; risk
Appreciate the behavior of costs and identify the costing methods that may best be used in financial planning, budgeting, and budgetary control
Use best practice to develop operating budgets, capital expenditure budgets, and cash flow budgets and forecasts in line with organisational strategic objectives
Training Methodology
This training course will combine the presentation of analytical techniques, examples and case studies. Relevant worked examples will illustrate the learning points and tools and techniques in a real-world environment. Group discussion will promote exchange of experiences and ideas.
The interactive team case studies and exercises will reinforce the application of topics covered. These are supported with the help and advice of your Instructor and his extensive practical experience and knowledge of strategic planning, forecasting and budgeting. Difficult mathematical concepts are minimised wherever possible and handled in a visual way that is easy to understand – our aim is for this to be an enjoyable learning experience.
Organisational Impact
Participants in this Budgeting, Forecasting and the Planning Process training course will provide benefits for their organisation through the enhanced knowledge and set of skills that they will take back to the workplace:
Strategic Thinking and Appreciation of the links between Budgets and Strategic Financial Plans
Application of Effective Forecasting Techniques
Risk Analysis and Risk Management
Identification of the most appropriate Financing and Optimal Capital Structures
Development of Modern Approaches to Costing, Planning, Budgeting and Budgetary control
Capital Investment Project Budgeting, Cash Forecasting and Budgeting
Personal Impact
Delegates will learn to take a strategic approach and greatly improve their Planning and Budgeting skill set relating to:
Strategic Analysis and Financial Planning and Use of Strategy Maps like the Balanced Scorecard
Use of Qualitative and Quantitative Forecasting Tools and Techniques, and Evaluation of Business and Financial Risk
Absorption Costing, Marginal Costing and Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis, Activity Based Costing (ABC), and Activity Based Management (ABM)
Preparation of Operating Budgets, Cash Budgets and Forecasts, and the Use of Activity Based Budgeting (ABB), Flexed Budgets and Variance Analysis for Budgetary Control
Evaluation of Alternative Financing, Optimisation of Capital Structure, and Computation of Cost of Equity, Cost of Debt, and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Application of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) techniques of Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR), Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC), and the Profitability Index (PI) for Capital Project Investment Appraisal and Capital Budgeting
Who Should Attend?
This Oxford Management Centre training course is designed to be suitable for anyone involved in budgeting and planning in companies, corporations, and governmental, education, and health service organisations. It is equally valuable for those working in finance and accounting, costing, and treasury departments, and all other financial and non-financial professionals who have budget responsibility or are involved in the planning process, for example:
Line Managers
Project Managers
Professional Advisers and consultants who would like to further develop their strategic thinking and decision-making, and refresh and update their skill sets relating to planning, forecasting and budgeting, and their linkages
Course Outline
Strategic management and financing.
Strategic Analysis, Strategic choices and evaluation, and Strategic implementation
The Links between Strategy, Forecasting, Planning, Budgeting, Performance Measurement
Strategic capability and avoiding the Spiral of Death
Shareholder Wealth maximisation, Corporate and Shareholder value creation
Financial Strategy, Dividend Policy, the Agency Problem and Corporate Governance
Debt and Equity; Cost of Equity using Dividend Growth and Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM); Cost of Debt; Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Capital Structure Optimisation Models to minimise WACC
Using Strategy Maps to link strategies to Performance Measurement: The Balanced Scorecard
Financial Planning, Forecasting, and Risk Analysis
The Financial Planning Process and Modelling using Excel
Time series; moving averages; exponential smoothing; Pareto Analysis; trend progression; linear regression; correlation
Porter’s generic strategy of cost leadership and differentiation; Bowman’s strategy clock; full cost pricing; marginal cost pricing; target cost pricing; life-cycle costing; kaizen costing; value-based pricing
Using Excel for Optimum Product mix decisions
Short-term Financing, Working Capital, and the Cash Operating Cycle
Direct and Indirect Cash Flow Analysis and Cash Flow Forecasting using Excel
Business Risk
Financial Risk
Systematic Risk
Unsystematic Risk
The Choices available to minimise and mitigate risk
Cost Analysis Techniques
Cost Behaviour and Activities
Fixed and Variable Costs, Direct and Indirect Costs
Product Costs and Period Costs
Cost Allocation and Absorption of Overheads
Absorption or Full Costing
Marginal Costing
Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) and ‘what-if’ analysis using Excel
Activity Based Costing (ABC) and Activity Based Management (ABM)
Budgeting, Budgetary Control and Performance Improvement
To Budget or Not – Purposes and Reasons for Budgets
Stages in the Budget Preparation Process
Preparation of the Master Budget
Activity Based Budgeting (ABB)
Standard costing; flexed budgets; budgetary control to measure organisational and management performance
Advantages, Disadvantages and Behavioural Aspects of Budgeting
The Conflict between Performance Improvement and the Costing System
Lean thinking and integrating continuous performance improvement into the Budget Process
Project Appraisal and Capital Budgeting
The Time Value of Money
Future Values
Present Values
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Accounting Rate of Return (ARR); payback; Net Present Value (NPV); Internal Rate of Return (IRR); Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR); Discounted Payback; Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC)
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