Budget Setting and Forecasting

This course will introduce participants to budgeting and cash flow forecasting and will cover:

• What is a budget
• How budgeting links to business planning
• How to prepare expenditure and income budgets
• Budget formats
• Using budgets to monitor and control income and expenditure
• The differences between budgeting and cash-flow forecasting
• Preparing a cash-flow forecast
• Cash-flow forecast format

Suitable For: Staff, volunteers and management committee members/trustees, responsible for the finances of VCSE organisations based in West Yorkshire.

Free: For Community groups based in Wakefield, and Calderdale.