Better Budgeting: Budgeting for Better Decisions (10 Hours) This course provides a practical look at the budgeting process—covering both its advantages and common pitfalls. You’ll explore how a master budget and supporting sub-budgets work together, learn proven tips to overcome budgeting challenges, and examine alternative budgeting methods that can enhance accuracy and flexibility. By the end, you’ll have the knowledge to choose and apply the budgeting approach that best supports your organization’s goals.

Capital Budgeting: Adding a New Location (4 Hours) This course explores how to evaluate the financial viability of a new business location and align it with a company’s overall strategy. You’ll learn to identify critical revenue and expense factors, gather accurate projection data, and apply key financial metrics such as Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and Time to Breakeven. The course also covers practical Excel What-If tools—including Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Data Tables—to help you model scenarios and make informed location decisions.

Rolling Forecasts (2 Hours) This course examines best practices for using rolling forecasts, starting with the important distinction between budgets and forecasts. You’ll learn how separating forecasting from performance evaluations and compensation decisions can significantly improve accuracy. The course also covers the benefits and challenges of rolling forecasts, how to create driver-based forecasts, and the step-by-step process for building effective rolling forecasts that enhance agility and decision-making.

Business Environmental Analysis (3 Hours). This course explores Finance’s role in monitoring and interpreting environmental data that impacts business performance. You’ll learn which data sources to track, how to apply common-size financial analysis, and how to use widely recognized models for business environmental analysis. By the end, you’ll be equipped to evaluate external factors more effectively and support strategic decision-making.

Cost-Volume-Profit and Break-Even Analysis (1 Hour) This course covers how Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis can be applied to measure profitability and how break-even analysis can determine the sales volume needed to reach financial goals. You’ll learn key CVP and break-even formulas, how to calculate break-even points for multiple products, and how costs and profits shift within the relevant range of activity.

Sensitivity Analysis and Scenario Analysis (1 Hour) This course explores how sensitivity analysis and scenario planning can strengthen business decision-making by anticipating potential outcomes and refining projections. You’ll learn practical techniques for conducting sensitivity analysis, gain a clear understanding of scenario planning, and discover methods to improve estimates. The course also highlights tools for effectively obtaining and communicating insights to stakeholders.

Decision Optimization by Maximizing Expected Value (1 Hour) This course introduces expected value analysis as a practical tool for simplifying complex possibilities into clear, actionable numbers that guide profitable decisions. Starting with the basics, you’ll learn how to calculate expected value, apply decision-making tools, and identify strategies to reduce risk—equipping you with insights to enhance business financial management.

Calculating the Value of Information (1 Hour) This course explores how to evaluate the economic value of information to guide smarter business decisions in uncertain environments. You’ll learn how Bayes’ theorem supports assessing information value, how to calculate it accurately, and how to apply these principles in real-world scenarios—helping you invest in data gathering strategically and avoid unnecessary costs or delays.

Better Forecasting by Projecting Ranges of Numbers (1 Hour) This course offers a practical framework for integrating probability analysis into financial projections, enhancing the accuracy and resilience of your forecasts. You’ll review the definitions of possibility and probability, explore key features of distribution curves and flying bar charts, and learn methods and tools for effective probabilistic modeling to support better financial decision-making.

Modeling Profitability and Making Forecasts in Excel (2 Hours) This course teaches you how to model profitability and create forecasts in Excel to support data-driven business decisions. You’ll explore essential Excel functions for profitability analysis, learn to leverage built-in tools for evaluating financial performance, and discover techniques for building reliable forecasts that project future outcomes with confidence.