Financial Planning and Analysis [FP &A] - 20 Hours

Financial Planning and Analysis [FP &A ]- 20 Hours

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) plays a crucial role in organizations and supports major corporate decisions. Organizations need to utilize careful financial planning and cash flow management to stay profitable. FP&A analysts are not only in demand, but education in this field offers a wide variety of career opportunities.

At CFI, our FP&A courses are 100-percent online and completely self-paced, so you can develop your FP&A skills at the time that works best for you. All courses leverage proprietary technology to enhance learning and retention and to prepare you for a future in finance.

Program Objective

  • Learning the process of Financial planning and analysis
  • Setting up budgets, forecast and estimate for the P&L /Balance Sheet accounts
  • Arriving actual financial number
  • Comparison of actual VS budgets VS Forecast
  • Performing variance analysis
  • Root cause and driver based contributions
  • Recommendations to the business
  • Cost controls, and cost reduction methodologies to be adopted for better cost management
  • Profit mediation and more value addition to the business /stakeholders

Program Contents

  • Account
  • Department
  • Location
  • Folder
  • Cost Centre
  • Profit Centre
  • Budget
  • Forecast
  • Estimate
  • Actuals
  • Variance / Disconnect / Difference
  • Over run / Under run
  • P & L account, Balance sheet
  • Cash Flow statement
  • General Ledger accounting
  • Recommending Financial Solution for the adverse variances
  • P & L Line Items Budget for Q1 for Asia/ Emea / US / Latam
  • P & L Line Items Forecast for Q1 for Asia/ Emea / US / Latam
  • P & L Line Items actuals for Q1 for Asia/ Emea / US / Latam
  • Analysis of P & L Line Items Budget VS Forecast VS Actuals for Q1 for Asia
  • Analysis of BS Accounts Budget VS Forecast VS Actuals for Q1 for Asia
  • Root cause analysis for the variances & Drivers of the variances
  • Impact of the Drivers of the variances
  • Action plan/ Fixing resolution

What Is the Out Come of the Program?

You will become a Subject Matter expert in FP&A in understanding, interpreting the financial statement, establishing the budgets, forecast and estimate for the General accounts in the Ledger thereby you will manage the financial operations more effectively by reducing cost, and controlling the cost, thus we could create more value addition and profit maximization, and wealth maximization to the business state holders.

The best practices sharing by Genius Team make you more dynamic and redefine your skills in this segment so that to diversify your profile.

GD enlightens you to become a dynamic professional conceptually and technically in implementing your functional skills at your work, and driving the process/project more effectively in compliance to the business requirements. In addition, a certificate is awarded after completion of the program.