- Planning for uncertainties and instabilities in the business environment
- Taking account of what’s not in our control: external macroeconomic and political impacts and competition
- Development of robust planning frameworks
- Substituting science for guesswork - statistical and non-statistical techniques to improve forecast and planning accuracy
- Difficulties we encounter in budgeting: management disaffection, lack of transparency, constant reforecasting and forecast error.
- Alternatives approaches – scenario planning, rolling forecasts, driver-based, activity-based and output budgets
- Key features
- Speaker
- Additional information
John McKenzie
John has held a variety of roles in F&A, manufacturing, sales, marketing & business development, with 21 years in the automotive sector with Ford & Unipart, then 12 years in the IT sector with Armstrong Laing & SAS.
He now pursues freelance lecturing, consulting and writing. In 2008, his first book, ABC/M to the Max, was published and he has spoken at over 500 public conferences and seminars worldwide.
He has lectured for the Management Centre of Europe and currently lectures, as an acknowledged subject matter expert, for major accounting bodies both the UK and abroad, on business planning, budgeting and forecasting, strategic accounting, strategic planning, ABC/M, margin management, change management, cost management, shareholder value and performance measurement.
Among the many clients he has worked for are the World Bank, DHL, Barclays, Oracle, Cisco, British Airways, UBM, Mercer HR, Tetrapak and Pfizer.
This event was recorded on 24 April 2025
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Price
Price (excluding VAT) 269 GBP
Location
United Kingdom
Date & time
On demand
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