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Finance and Treasury

Preparing and Managing the Organizational Budget

This foundational course takes budget holders through the full annual budgeting cycle, from setting assumptions and gathering departmental input to consolidation, approval, and monthly monitoring. Practical exercises use realistic revenue and cost data from manufacturing, services, and public agency contexts to show how budgets translate strategic priorities into numbers. Delegates leave with templates and a monitoring routine they can apply immediately.

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Course objectives

  • Design a budgeting calendar and assumption setting process for the organisation
  • Build departmental budgets from operational drivers rather than prior year extrapolation
  • Consolidate departmental budgets into an organisational master budget
  • Present budgets persuasively to management and approval committees
  • Establish a monthly variance monitoring and corrective action routine

Who should attend

  • Budget holders and departmental managers
  • Finance officers coordinating the annual budget cycle
  • Programme and project managers with allocated budgets
  • Newly appointed finance managers
  • NGO and donor funded project accountants

Course outline

  1. 01The budgeting cycle, calendar, and assumption setting
  2. 02Building departmental budgets from operational drivers
  3. 03Consolidating and reconciling the master budget
  4. 04Presenting and defending budgets to approval committees
  5. 05Monthly budget monitoring and variance reporting
  6. 06Responding to variances with corrective management action

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Preparing and Managing the Organizational Budget
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
11 to 13 October 2026Durban, South AfricaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
20 to 22 October 2026Victoria Falls, ZimbabweClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
21 to 23 October 2026Accra, GhanaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
15 to 17 November 2026Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now
11 to 13 May 2027Kigali, RwandaClassroomR11,995 per delegateRegister Now