Effective Business Planning

Integrating business plans with effective financial strategies is an essential part of success in both the private and public sectors. Many organisations have problems because their financial strategies are not consistent with their business plans. This interactive course looks at developing financial strategies to meet the needs of the business and what part finance staff can play in developing business plans.

WHAT WILL I GET OUT OF IT?
• understanding of how to link strategies to business plans
• a look at the features of effective business plans
• developing financial strategies that are appropriate to the business.

KEY FEATURES
• the strengths and weaknesses of business plans
• learning from others: mistakes that organisations have made.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Middle managers and those relatively new to business planning who wish to understand the core principles of making a business planning system work. The course will aim to cater for the needs of finance staff in all business sectors by focusing on best practice regardless of the wider environment.

LECTURER
Wayne Bartlett FCCA MBA, Managing Consultant, Bentley Jennison Consulting