Table of Contents

• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Preparing your budgets
• 1 What is the budget for?
• 2 What is a forecast and how does it differ from a budget?
• 3 Essential background financial skills for budgeting
• 4 How should the budget be built?
• 5 How should cash be budgeted and controlled?
• 6 How should capital expenditure be budgeted for?
• Part 2 Managing your budget and delivering performance
• 7 Back to basics: living within your means and delivering VFM
• 8 Making sense of standard costing and variances
• 9 Risks, forecasts, balanced scorecards and KPIs
• 10 Delegating budgets to others
• 11 Beyond budgeting
• Part 3 Reviewing your budgeting and forecasting performance
• 12 What lessons have you learned?
• Index

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About the Author

Nigel Wyatt has been running his own financial training consultancy – Magenta Financial Training since 1991. Nigel has worked with a wide range of organisations, including many blue-chip companies. In recent years he has worked extensively abroad, including India, China, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Jordan. Most of the training programmes Nigel delivers are aimed at non-financial managers.