How to Create a Budget: online course
Every business needs to plan its expected income and expenditure, and ensure available funds are spent in a considered way. However, this can become a complex task given the many factors at play.
This online course will help you to look at the bigger picture when setting your budgets and provide you with a firm action plan.
It's part of the Business Finance Basics online course bundle of six courses: you can buy it on its own or as part of the whole bundle.
How to buy
Buy the course for £30 or the full AAT Business Finance Basics bundle for £150.
Buy a licence for your staff or professional members to access the course and our other Business Finance Basics e-learning courses.
Syllabus
Revenue budgets
Information sources
Cost behaviour
Activity changes: seasons, technology, social trends, economy
Completing a budget and calculating profit
Monitoring budgets: variance analysis, flexed budget, the need to use information to reforecast
What you'll achieve
When you've completed the course, you'll understand:
- how to build an operational budget, including how to plan for changes in both prices and volumes
- how to monitor costs and revenues using variance analysis
- how budgets link to your profit calculations and cash flow.
Who it's for
This course is perfect if you're:
- a finance professional looking to refresh your basic finance skills and follow best practices
- running your own business looking for practical skills to monitor and manage your financial operations
- an organisation looking to roll out on-demand training to finance staff.
License on-demand e-learning for your organisation
Embed best practice finance management across your organisation, or boost the value proposition for your members, with an AAT Business Finance Basics licence.
You'll be able to offer your staff or members access to all six of our e-learning courses – so they can access on-demand finance training at their fingertips.
How to access the course
How to Create a Budget is a 30-minute session including video tutorials and interactive learning to test your knowledge as you learn.
- Businesses: 12-month licence. Access your courses in the AAT Lifelong Learning Portal or add them to your own e-learning platform.
- Individuals: 12 months' access to the AAT Lifelong Learning Portal. View all the courses you’ve purchased, monitor your latest training activity and create goals to help you achieve your training aims.
Buy or license the course
If you're an employer wanting to license the course, get in touch and we'll get back to you. Or if you want to buy it for yourself, head over to AAT Store.
