Introduction For executives and managers in today’s business world, it’s essential to have a working knowledge of finance. We all play a role in our organisation’s financial health regardless of our function, designation and position in our organization. If you don’t having training or a background in finance, you may be at a disadvantage when you are required to prepare and/or manage financial budget for your department and organization.

Understand the cycle of finance will help you figure out where you fit into your company’s financial structure, and how to keep your department out of the red. This workshop will help you to understanding the budget preparation process and how to prepare budgets and make decisions with confidence.

Objective

At the end of the programme, the participants will be able to:

• Understand budget processes and budget preparation
• Define basic financial terminology
• Undertand the source of obtaining relevant information for budget preparation
• Prepare a budget and get approved with confident
• Perform basic ratio analysis
• Make better financial decisions
• Obtain a budget template with necessary excel modelling tools

Outline

Who should attend

C-Suite, leaders, managers, executives, supervisors, consultants, entrepreneurs, department heads, and anyone else who have responsibilities to develop and control the budget

Testimonial

Overall the course met my objective. Mr Gary is a very knowledgeable trainer.
The Management Corporation Strata Plan

Gary is very knowledgeable & approachable. A very competent trainer.
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Gary Chan's Profile

Chartered Certified Accountant, (ACCA, UK)
MBA in International Business (Henley Business School / University of Reading, UK)
MSc in Strategic Marketing (National University of Ireland)
Certified Trainer & Assessor (WDA-ACTA, Singapore)
Certified Advisors ( Xero and QuickBooks Accounting System )

Gary Chan has held various senior management roles in both local and international organizations including that of Regional Director and CFO for a large MNC, Director of Corporate Services for an SME, and Vice President for the Asia Pacific for a Fortune 500 company. These have enabled him to accumulate more than thirty years of extensive corporate finance and business leadership experience in his current role as a much sought-after corporate trainer and consultant; particularly in accounting, finance, business management, and development as well as strategic planning and implementation.

Gary is a Chartered Accountant (ACCA, UK) and started his career as an external auditor with Price Waterhouse Coopers. He possesses an MBA in Business Administration from Henley University in the UK, majoring in International Business. In addition, Gary holds a Master of Science from the National University of Ireland, majoring in Strategic Marketing. Gary is a registered Chartered Accountant member with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA).

Gary is passionate about helping people change and re-learn the way they lead, manage, think, create, and collaborate with the aim of supporting his learners in their journey to attain personal and organizational success.

Gary utilizes his creativity and real-world examples in conducting his training. He is passionately fond of training and always willing to share with others all that he knows. His outgoing pleasant personality and confident disposition coupled with his lively, light-hearted, thoughtful, engaging, liberally sprinkled with humour and always relevant to his learners’ needs have made his training more lively, fun and insightful.

Gary represents several departments of government and non-profit organizations in providing volunteer works and training to the public. Gary has been featured in the media locally and regionally. Gary is the founder of a local Skill Training & Consulting which provides training and advisory on Accounting, Tax, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Regional Business Development/Expansion, and Strategic Planning and Implementation.