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David Parmenter’s Books
Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs
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Pareto’s 80/20 rule for corporate accountants
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Upcoming Workshops
For 2010, David Parmenter has confirmed speaking events in a number of countries. A full list is available here.
It is being increasingly recognised that a planning tool is required for a forecasting and planning process. The stalwart Excel has now been extended beyond it intended boundaries with management accountants building monsters that are beyond any quality assurance programme, littered with logic errors hidden in the formula and designed with out the big picture view. However, many planning applications have failed to deliver with seven figure sums being wasted as the forecasting model is redone sometimes within 18 months of the original. This “planning tool implementation” carnage is well documented. Whilst there was an excuse before, “it was new territory”, now this is not the case. We must learn and apply the better practices that are becoming standards.
If you want to migrate into the 21st century using a planning tool then this is the course for you! This course will help you build a better annual planning tool, or if you are already down the path, a robust quarterly rolling forecasting tool.
The main planning application tools will be demonstrated, their strengths and weakness identified. Case studies and reference sites will be provided. This course will also explain why quarterly rolling forecasting (QRF) is the most important management tool of this decade and how it can lead on to quarterly rolling planning.
Content:
- Pareto’s 80/20 rule when designing a forecasting/planning model
- The 10 rules you need to apply
- The 10 pitfalls to avoid at all costs
- Mapping out the purpose of the model first
- Case studies where it went horribly wrong
- Better practice forecasting techniques used by participants
- A comprehensive white paper
Target Audience:
- Finance Directors, CFOs or financial controllers who are involved in annual planning process
- Financial accountants and management accountants performing forecasts
Benefits of attending:
Upon attending you will able to:
- pre select the likely planning tools that are suitable for an organisation of your size
- apply the rules and lessons learnt
- identify the building blocks to better practice planning tool implementation
- explain to your management why your organisation should implement quarterly rolling forecasting
- recall participant better practices