An Intensive 5-day Training Course
AI-Enhanced Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting
Tools, Analytics and Strategic Insights
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INTRODUCTION
This Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course provides participants with key cost awareness and budgetary skills, which are essential for managing and controlling resources in times of increasing global competition where the budgets are inextricably linked with both the achievement of strategic objectives as well as with evaluation of future and initiatives.
Budgeting lies at the heart of business management, yet businesses often encounter planning and financial difficulties as a result of either inadequate planning, lack of understanding of the business, or errors within the compilation of the budgets. Ineffective management reports heighten the challenge in collating inputs to the budget and use of budgeted information.
In addressing these issues, this training course is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge in using AI relevant tools in improving performance while reducing costs of those processes for which they are accountable.
This EuroMaTech Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course enables participants to:
- Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution - using AI tools to map financial plans to strategic objectives and generate board-ready alignment narratives.
- Understand the critical factors impacting business processes through applying AI tools in identifying key cost drivers and process bottlenecks from operational data.
- Apply modern systems of cost analysis for budgeting purposes.
- Master budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making - supported by AI scenario modelling, CVP analysis, and variance narration.
- Identify sources of financial and operational data to support the budgeting process - with Claude Code automating data collection, cleaning, and consolidation from multiple sources.
- Explore best practices to manage multiple organisational performance measures and use AI skills to generate a live Balanced Scorecard with AI-written performance commentary.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this AI-Enhanced Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course, you will be able to:
- Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution.
- Understand the critical factors which have an impact on business processes.
- Discuss modern systems of cost analysis for budgeting purposes.
- Master the budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making.
- Explore the best practices required to manage multiple organizational performances.
- Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution — producing AI-generated strategic budget narratives aligned to organisational goals.
- Understand the critical factors which have an impact on business processes — and use AI to analyse process data and surface the most influential cost drivers automatically.
- Apply a modern system of cost analysis for budgeting purposes — constructing ABC models using Claude Code.
- Master the budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making — using AI tools for variance commentary, CVP scenarios, and rolling forecast automation.
- Explore best practices to manage multiple organisational performance measures — building an AI-powered Balanced Scorecard and Beyond Budgeting framework.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This EuroMaTech AI-Enhanced Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will especially benefit:
- The staff person who will be responsible for entering data into the budget system or training others how to enter information.
- Those who want to gain control of the firm's financial standing and obtain a firm grasp on the numbers side of their job.
- Financial Professional, Professional R&D, Sales/Marketing Professional, General Accounting Professional, Business Unit Professional.
- Anyone who wants to refine and advance the budgeting and costing knowledge.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The AI-Enhanced Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course combines formal presentations, case studies, and interactive exercises - now augmented with various live AI prompt workshops and Claude Code automation cases. Each delegate point is reinforced through practical exercises where participants use AI and Claude Code directly on real financial data, leaving with working tools they can deploy in their own organisations on day one after the course.
TRAINING SUMMARY
Investing in this training brings both immediate and long-term benefits to professionals and their organizations.
Key Takeaways for Organizations:
- Cost and budgeting awareness will be enhanced across the organisation - as participants introduce AI tools that make financial data accessible and actionable for non-finance teams
- Higher chances to design or select a budgetary system that works - with AI evaluating system options, modelling outcomes, and drafting the business case for change
- Broadened knowledge of performance management techniques - including AI-enhanced Balanced Scorecards that update in real time and generate their own management commentary
- Better ability to link cost and budgeting to strategy and performance measurement - using AI to translate strategy maps into measurable KPIs and budget targets automatically
Key Takeaways for Participants:
- Delegates will understand how to construct a relevant and efficient budget - including using Claude Code to automate multi-department budget consolidation and flexing.
- Delegates will evaluate costing techniques for accurately calculating profitability - comparing traditional and AI-assisted ABC models and understanding when each approach delivers more insight.
- Delegates will link budgeting to strategy and performance measurement - building a live strategy-to-budget connection in AI tools.
- Delegates will broaden their understanding by linking financial and operational issues - using AI application to translate operational data into financial impacts and communicate them clearly to leadership
TRAINING OUTLINE
Day 1 - AI-Enhanced Planning Strategy and Corporate Governance
- Understanding planning strategies.
- Strategy analysis, choice, and implementation.
- Using strategy maps to define the business model, with AI applications.
- Effective management reporting practice, including the use of AI tools.
- The agency problem and corporate governance.
- Planning requirements and working capital management, using AI-enabled analytics to automate calculations.
Day 2 - AI-Driven Forecasting Techniques for Budgeting
- Determining the purpose and objectives of the forecast.
- Applying statistical analytical tools and quantitative forecasting methods, supported by AI applications.
- Comparing forecasting techniques, using AI tools to interpret results and explain their budgeting implications.
- Addressing agency problems in forecasting by using AI techniques.
- Developing causal forecasting models through regression analysis, with AI-enabled tools.
- Using AI-supported automation to analyse historical data, and prepare forecast-ready datasets.
Day 3 - AI-Integrated Budgets, Costs and Budgetary Control
- Why do we budget? – the purposes of budgeting.
- Planning and control.
- Putting the budget together.
- Applying CVP and what-if analysis, with AI applications.
- Using standard costing and flexed budgets.
- Conducting variance analysis and explaining reasons for variances, with AI tools generating professional commentary.
- Turning variance analysis into management action by using AI techniques to identify possible root causes.
Day 4 - AI-Enabled Activity-Based Costing and Budgeting
- Activity based costing (ABC).
- Refinement of the costing system.
- Moving from traditional budgeting to Activity-Based Budgeting.
- ABC and cost management.
- Advantages and disadvantages of ABC systems.
- Comparing traditional costing and ABC, using AI applications to test both methods on the same dataset.
- Motivation and the behavioural aspect of budgeting.
- Understanding the behavioural aspects of budgeting, using AI applications to analyse budgeting scenarios.
Day 5 - AI-Powered Performance Management and Beyond Budgeting
- The Drive toward Shareholder Value (EVA®).
- Beyond budgeting: integrating financial and non-financial issues.
- Introducing the Balanced Scorecard, with AI tools building a complete framework.
- Broadening performance measurement systems by using AI tools to design KPI frameworks that integrate financial and non-financial measures with strategic objectives.
- Linking performance measurement to strategy, with AI applications generating strategy maps.
- Developing AI-generated management report.
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- 30+ years of experience delivering high-impact training courses across industries.
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