Strategic Business Planning
One-Day Programme for Managers involved in Planning and Budgeting
Introduction
- The business cycle
- Financial reporting
- Reporting standards and accounting principles
The planning process
- Questions to ask
- Steps to take
The business plan
- Elements of a business plan
- Mission statement
- Objectives
- SWOT analysis
- Pareto
- Assumptions
- Gap analysis
- Sensitivity analysis
Business strategies
- The Anshoff matrix
- The Porter model
- Profit related strategies
- Strategy implementation
- Strategy evaluation
- Resources
Risk
- Assessment
- Management
Conclusion
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
This programme aims to ensure that the participants on the programme will:
- Understand the importance of planning
- Understand the need to forecast at all levels
- Understand the importance financial planning to financial success
- Understand why companies budget
- Have confidence to question their own financial statements forecasts and budgets
- Be motivated to improve their organisation’s financial performance