Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities
Total Credits: 2 including 2 Accounting - Technical
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- Categories:
- Accounting and Auditing | Personal Development | ACPEN Industry Institute
- Faculty:
- Bob Mims, CPA
- Course Levels:
- Intermediate
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- License:
- Product Setting: Expires 30 day(s) after program date.
Description
The budgeting process can be a time consuming and frustrating process for accountants. The constraints and pressures can lead to poor decisions in both the technical and human components. See Learning Objectives below for more details.
Basic Course Information
Learning Objectives- Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities
- Recognize and find solutions to the budget process
- Define the budget process
- Understand varying budget cultures and choosing the right one for your organization
- Walk through a 12-step cure for the typical Budgetaholic
- Use Balanced Scorecard Budgeting
- How to build a model that works
- How the right Chart of Accounts can simplify your work
- Building a volume sensitive model
- Budgeting to GAAP and for Board understanding
- Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits
- Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expenses
- Using variables to stress test your budget
- Understanding core personality types
- Learning the type of person you are
- Managing and coping with the budget team
- Dealing with A, B and C players
- Connecting through disconnection
- Identifying the ‘big picture” and your communications role
- Communicating so others can understand us
- Understanding a presentation’s anatomy
- Tips and tricks for budget presentation
Major Subjects
- Budget defining,
- Budget cultures
- Tacticle budget issues
- Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions
- Understanding people in the budget process
- Communicating your budget to non financial types
Course Materials
Important CPE Credit Instructions_READ BEFORE WEBCAST UPDATED (0.43 MB) | Available after Purchase |
360 Budget calamities-Understand and Solve Bud Woes (7.03 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Faculty

Bob Mims, CPA Related Seminars and Products
Bob Mims, CPA, is an entrepreneur and accounting/management executive based in Memphis, TN. He has served as a financial consultant across various industries in the role of planning, modeling and CFO capacities. Bob has had the privilege of serving as chair on an AICPA committee and on two FASB advisory committees. During his ten years with the accounting firm KPMG, he was selected national instructor of the year on three occasions.
Bob graduated from the University of Mississippi, and enjoys outdoor sports with his wife, 5 children, 2 service dogs, and a 20-pound cat named ‘Squirt’.
Dates
Wed, Mar 26, 2025 - 10:00am to 11:49am CDT
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Thu, Apr 03, 2025 - 12:00pm to 01:49pm CDT
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Fri, Apr 18, 2025 - 02:00pm to 03:49pm CDT
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Wed, May 14, 2025 - 08:00am to 09:49am CDT
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Thu, May 29, 2025 - 10:00am to 11:49am CDT
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Tue, Jun 03, 2025 - 06:00pm to 07:49pm CDT
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Sat, Jun 07, 2025 - 10:00am to 11:49am CDT
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Fri, Jun 13, 2025 - 02:00pm to 03:49pm CDT
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Thu, Jun 26, 2025 - 08:00am to 09:49am CDT
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Mon, Jul 14, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:49pm CDT
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Mon, Aug 04, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:49pm CDT
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Mon, Aug 25, 2025 - 11:00am to 12:49pm CDT
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Additional Info
Basic Course Information
Prerequisites NoneAdvanced Preparation None
Designed For Current and aspiring CFO's and Controllers and/or Finance related professionals involved in teh budget process
Original Recording Date 08/08/2022
Course Developer The Knowledge Institute
Date Added to Catalog 08/02/2022
Course Schedule This course contains no breaks.
Yellow Book No
Additional Information
Complaint Resolution PolicyPlease contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement
Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org
Instructional Delivery Method
Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements
Online Registration
Refund/Cancellation Policy
Please contact the ACPEN help desk 1-877-602-9877 or help@acpen.com if you wish to cancel your attendance for a previously purchased webcast and are requesting a refund or transfer.
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