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Corporate Finance & Valuation Intermediate

Budgeting & Cash-Flow Forecasting (FP&A)

Build a full master budget, a cash budget and a 13-week forecast, then explain the variances, every cell checked as you go.

8 lessons 8 labs 1.9 h Certificate

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What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

  • Turn an annual volume target into a quarterly sales budget with seasonality and a mid-year price rise.
  • Plan how many bottles to produce and how much steel to buy, using target inventory levels.
  • Budget selling and admin costs, split into variable and fixed, and find the cash part.
  • Pull the sales, cost and expense budgets together into a budgeted P&L down to net income.
  • Turn credit sales into cash receipts, schedule payments and work out how much to borrow to stay above minimum cash.
  • Roll a weekly cash forecast for one quarter, find the low point and size the credit line you need.
  • Build a variance report with $ and % variances, favourable/unfavourable flags, and a flexed-budget check.
  • Build a next-four-quarter forecast that switches between scenarios with one selector cell.

About this course

A budget is only useful if it connects sales, costs and cash in one consistent model. That is what you build here. You start with a sales budget from volume, price and seasonality, then plan production and materials purchases and split operating expenses into fixed and variable. These feed a budgeted profit and loss statement. The cash budget adds collection lags, a minimum cash balance and borrowing, and a 13-week forecast shows the short-term cash position week by week. You then compare budget with actual results in a variance analysis and finish with a rolling forecast across base, best and worst scenarios. For finance analysts, controllers, small business owners and FP&A beginners.

Curriculum

Course content

8 lessons · 8 labs · 1.9 h · final exam

  1. The Sales Budget: Volume × Price with SeasonalityLab12 min5 checked tasks
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  2. Production and Materials Purchases BudgetLab15 min3 checked tasks
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  3. Operating Expense Budget: Fixed vs VariableLab12 min4 checked tasks
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  4. The Budgeted Profit & Loss StatementLab12 min4 checked tasks
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  5. The Cash Budget: Collection Lags, Minimum Cash and BorrowingLab18 min4 checked tasks
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  6. The 13-Week Cash-Flow ForecastLab16 min5 checked tasks
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  7. Budget vs Actual: Variance AnalysisLab15 min4 checked tasks
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  8. Rolling Forecast with Base, Best and Worst ScenariosLab16 min4 checked tasks
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  9. Final exam12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

Certificate

Finish with a certificate you can verify

Complete every lesson and pass the final exam to receive a certificate of completion for this course, with a unique credential ID and a public verification page.

  • Names the course, your score and the date of issue
  • A verification link for your CV or LinkedIn profile
  • 12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

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Questions about this course

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No. You pay $9.99 once for this course. There is no subscription and nothing renews automatically. Prices are in US dollars; taxes may be added where required.

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All lessons and labs of this course, the final exam and the certificate, including later updates to the course, for as long as Tutorvo offers it. Access is personal and tied to your account.

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When can I start?

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Do I need Excel or other software?

No. The labs run in a spreadsheet inside your browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Function names and syntax follow Excel.

Is the certificate an official qualification?

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