Budgeting

Budgeting for uncertainty

Enhance your organisation’s budgeting in a fast-changing environment with these agile practices.

Pricing pressures continue as labour, supplies remain scarce

A labour shortage and supply chain difficulties are creating business challenges that may not abate soon.

Energy risk: How businesses can reduce costs in a volatile market

Hedging has a role in cutting energy costs when lowering consumption is not enough to offset surging prices.

Freight rates won’t ease in 2022, DHL exec says

Businesses may want to sign 2- or 3-year contracts to hedge against future price increases, says the head of DHL’s freight business.

The case for flexibility in 2022’s budget

The pandemic exposed rigid budgeting and forecasting processes that couldn’t handle rapid changes. Armed with experience from last year, finance leaders share how they’re planning for 2022.

3 steps to ensure effective cybersecurity budget allocation

With the number and complexity of attacks increasing, cyber defence spending should focus on its impact and be proportionate to the threat.

Finance leaders share their plans to leave the pandemic behind

Finance leaders from different industries and geographies share lessons learned during the pandemic and aspirations for 2021 and beyond.

Consumer goods CFO: Focused on growth and capturing Indian market

Srinivas Phatak, finance chief at Hindustan Unilever Limited, shares his insights for managing present challenges posed by the pandemic and his focus on growth in 2021.

Energy services finance leader: We had to manage cash in a crisis

Japheth Jev, ACMA, CGMA, is the CFO at Triumph Power and Gas Systems Limited in Lagos, Nigeria, shares the strategies and tools he used to lead his finance team through the worst of the COVID-19 crisis.

Movember CFO: Adapting planning, budgeting cycles to keep the mission alive

Virginie Lafougere, CFO at Movember, shares how her team adjusted its budgeting approach and tightened spending to sustain its cause to improve men’s health globally.

Should companies rethink their approach to 2021 budgeting?

Prabhu Sivabalan, professor of accounting at the UTS Business School in Sydney, discusses the inherent weakness in using budgets to evaluate performance and suggests quick wins to improve the budgeting process amidst COVID-19.

Leading on finance at the Royal Ballet

The Royal Ballet’s administrative director, Heather Baxter, describes the company’s complex multi-season budgeting process, Brexit impacts, and more.

The pandemic’s effects on forecasting and budget allocation

See how finance leaders are handling forecasts and budget changes as they seek to move from disruption to growth.

The art of managing cost without a budget

A senior adviser at Scandinavia’s largest company explains what it means to “kick out the budget”.

A playbook to manage cash in a crisis

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing businesses worldwide to tightly manage their cash. Here are five critical steps to tackle liquidity stress in a crisis.

5 priorities for finance leaders over the coming months

China’s finance leaders are focused on these key areas as they chart the path ahead.

Steering your budget amid coronavirus uncertainty

A forecasting and budgeting expert describes the forward-looking ways the finance function can help organisations better weather the coronavirus storm.

If the coronavirus outbreak disrupts your budget

Here are three areas you should consider as business interruptions due to the spread of the coronavirus send your 2020 plans to the bin.

Moving from budgeting to rolling forecasts

Steve Player, CPA, CGMA, the CEO of the consulting firm The Player Group, suggests that switching to rolling forecasts prompts you to plan better and ask strategic questions.

A methodical approach to budget

Use Microsoft Excel’s built-in regression capabilities to turn historical data into an initial rough-draft budget.

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