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Secure Transaction CPE Credits
11 Credits: Finance
Course Level
Overview
Format
Self-Study
Course Description
The course is intended for business professionals engaged in budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, profit planning, and control. A budget is the formal expression of plans, goals, and objectives of management that covers all aspects of operations for a designated time period. The budget is a tool providing targets and direction. Budgets provide control over the immediate environment, help to master the financial aspects of the job and department, and solve problems before they occur. Budgets focus on the importance of evaluating alternative actions before decisions are made and implemented. This course explains what budgets are, how they work, how to prepare and present them, and how to analyze budget figures and results. New developments and uses of budgets, such as rolling budgets at various managerial levels within a business, are illustrated that combine budgeting, forecasting analytics, business intelligence, and collaboration.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize different types of budgets
- Identify characteristics and advantages of budgeting
- Recognize how strategic planning and budgeting are linked together
- Identify certain budget measurements
- Distinguish between short-term and long-term plans
- Identify objectives of profit planning
- Recognize metrics in a profit plan
- Recognize the major types of budget reports
- Identify the components of the budget sheet
- Identify examples of variable costs, fixed costs, and mixed costs
- Recognize two methods of developing a flexible budget formula: the high-low method and regression analysis
- Calculate fixed costs and overheard costs
- Distinguish among three types of responsibility centers
- Identify weaknesses of many cost systems
- Identify examples of financial budgets
- Recognize components of overhead
- Recognize the purpose and causes of variance analysis
- Recognize where certain variances arise
- Identify the value of performance reports
- Identify the importance of a reasonable sales budget
- Differentiate between sales planning and sales forecast
- Recognize the procedures for developing advertising budgets and some characteristics of an advertising budget
- Identify some methods of calculating advertising budgets
- Recognize fixed, semi-variable, and variable costs
- Understand the applicability of static budgets
- Recognize how the flexible budget formula helps develop a factory overhead budget
- Recognize items included in the budget process for general and administrative (G&A) expenses
- Identify the factors that need to be considered in R&D planning
- Identify factors in considering capital expenditures
- Recognize components of the capital expenditures budget
- Recognize the importance, attributes and components of a cash budgeting system
- Identify advantages of using “what-if” scenarios when budgeting
- Recognize the steps involved in zero-base budgeting
- Recognize what is involved in a decision package
- Recognize the special features associated with planning and budgeting for service businesses
- Identify unique features and characteristics of governmental and nonprofit organizations (NPOs)
Course Specifics
SS326487142
August 17, 2026
Basic Accounting.
None
286
Compliance Information
CMA Notice: Western CPE makes every attempt to maintain our CMA CPE library, to ensure a course meets your continuing education requirements please visit Insitute of Management Accountants (IMA)
CFP Notice: Not all courses that qualify for CFP® credit are registered by Western CPE. If a course does not have a CFP registration number in the compliance section, the continuing education will need to be individually reported with the CFP Board. For more information on the reporting process, required documentation, processing fee, etc., contact the CFP Board. CFP Professionals must take each course in it’s entirety, the CFP Board DOES NOT accept partial credits for courses.
Meet The Experts
For many years, Delta CPE LLC has offered a wide variety of continuing education courses for financial professionals. Topics covered by Delta’s courses include accounting, financial management, budgeting, investments, financial statement reporting, business management, IFRS, ethics, valuations, real estate, and business writing. The diversity and breadth of Delta’s course offerings make the company a prolific and unique contributor to the CPE world. Delta’s well-credentialed authors and contributors have also been published in numerous academic and professional journals and quoted by some of the leading financial media outlets.
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