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Surgent's Controllership Skills Update - Budgeting, Forecasting, and Big Data

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$99.00 Regular Registration
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$104.00 Regular Registration
This course is being offered on multiple dates, listed below. Click the Register button next to your preferred date to register.
 Mon, 12/01/2025 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
 Tue, 02/24/2026 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
 Tue, 03/03/2026 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
 Thu, 04/23/2026 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
 Currently available
Designed For:

Public, private and non-profit organizations and their members - CFOs, CEOs, controllers, auditors, and managers

Prerequisite:

Experience and/or exposure to financial management

Budgets are the vehicle for allocating resources, measuring activities, and identifying needed changes and improvements. An organization's strategy is the primary driver of costs. To be effective, the budget must be linked to strategy and long-term plans. Numerous organizations have achieved a series of short-term targets (budgets) but failed longer term, demonstrating the lack of this necessary linkage. Forecasting, a critical part of any successful budgeting process, can be flawed by technical errors, organizational structure, or emotional forces. The establishment of a system to collect, process, and analyze big data can provide significant insights into the budgeting and forecasting process. An efficient system of incorporating big data and analytics into normal activities will improve management's decision-making. This brief program offers specific actions to improve your forecasting and budgeting activities. In addition, more advanced techniques are identified for the participant's further review, which can be applied throughout an organization. Good budgets effectively allocate resources, provide information for decision-making and serve as an early warning system for unforeseen events. A poor budgeting process fosters a false sense of security, provides inappropriate or inaccurate data, and reinforces the status quo. Budgets are about the organization's story, not just the raw numbers!

Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Accounting, Business management & organization
Program Level: Update

This course is being offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible on your My CPE page. Webinar access information will be emailed directly to you by Surgent McCoy.

Objectives

  • Understand all facets of the budgeting process
  • Provide techniques to improve forecasting
  • Demonstrate how a budget can be a vital tool for overall long-term improvement
  • Identify immediate actions that can result in measurable benefits to an organization
  • Understand management, uses, and potential benefits of big data
  • Employ techniques for further research

Speakers

Advanced Preparation

None

Vendor

The Virginia Society of CPAs (VSCPA) is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: NASBARegistry.org.

For more information regarding refund, complaint, program cancellation or other policies, visit our Registration Policies page or call (800) 733-8272.