Planning, Budgeting And Forecasting 101 2020/2021

One of the natural job opportunities of the Business Administration and Economics graduated students are the large Companies, and in particular the Departments of Administration, Finance and Control. A key area of this department is Planning and Control, whose main targets are:

- To manage, industrial planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes and the deployment of the Company Control Model,

- To monitor the Financial and Operating results and related KPIs, highlighting gaps and suggesting corrective actions;

- To perform economic and financial evaluation for investments;

The aim of this course, which includes a Business Challenge, is to bring students closer to the real working life within the Planning and Control departments. Key topics:

- Introduction to Planning and Control and overview of the main Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting processes

- Main Planning methodologies and real-life examples

- Company Control Model and the Profit & Loss

- Effective presentation and storytellingWhitin the Business Challenge the students, working in teams, will have to:

- Hypothesize a Planning Model of a company Profit & Loss- Present, as a team, the Planning Model during the Final Exam