Budgeting for non-profit organizations training and book for managers

Online assessments: budgeting for non-profit organizations

HB Publications provide two online assessments that test a person’s competence in budgeting for non-profit organizations.

1. Budget setting skills
2. budget monitoring and control

The online assessments are an effective way of testing and training financial decision makers. Three attempts at each assessment are allowed, and a report is generated at the end of the assessment with the person’s score. The report also identifies areas for further training.

The online assessments are cost-effective, easy to use and include email support.

1. Budget setting skills

• What is a budget
• Budget setting is important
• Budget setting process
• Budget setting techniques
• Cash limited budgets
• Budget factors
• Budget setting assumptions
• Budgeting -v- costing
• Calculating unit cost
• Activity based budgeting
• Budgeting for salaries
• Demand led budgets
• Profiling budgets
• Forecasting income
• Crucial factors for successful budgeting

      2. Budget monitoring and control

• Budget monitoring
• Steps in the monitoring process
• Establishing actual income and expenditure
• Commitment accounting
• Variance analysis
• Calculating variances
• Reasons for variances
• What to do about variances
• Budget control factors
• Uncontrollable variances
• Taking action to control variances
• Budget virement
• Demand led budgets
• Responsibility for budget monitoring
• Monthly monitoring routines
• Projecting outturns
• Financial management information
• Budget monitoring reports