Prepare, challenge and defend a realistic budget for your scope.
📋 Personal ownership: Move from filling templates to owning a clear budget story.
🤝 Better reviews: Collaborate with cost center owners and leaders instead of fighting over lines.
💰 Realistic plans: Support decisions with budgets that reflect true drivers and constraints.
Cost center controllers and analysts preparing budgets for functions, departments or plants.
Local P&L owners and FP&A analysts who coordinate or consolidate budgets across several scopes.
Knowledge: Experience with at least one budget cycle as a contributor or reviewer.
Tools: Access to standard budget templates or planning tools and a spreadsheet tool.
Translate strategy into a structured budget for your scope.
Document assumptions and drivers behind major budget lines.
Review and challenge budget inputs with cost center owners.
Present and defend budget in reviews with clear messages.
Eligibility: currently not eligible
Watch time: about 1.5 hours
Total learning: about 3 hours
Estimated credits: 2.0