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The Eight Essentials of Planning and Budgeting
SpearMC Consulting
Wednesday, April 10th 2013
Session 100480
Rich Yates • SpearMC Consulting
Marcus Bode • SpearMC Consulting
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About SpearMC – Our Expertise
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Marcus Bode – Principal
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Marcus Bode, CPA – SpearMC Principal
Co-founded SpearMC Consulting in 2002
PeopleSoft Financials, Cash Management and Procure-to-Pay Expert
Certified PeopleSoft v9.1 Financials
20+ Years Experience…majority PeopleSoft
About Your Presenters
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Rich Yates– Sr. Consultant
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Rich Yates – SpearMC Sr. Consultant
Working with SpearMC Consulting since 2010
Budgeting Planning and Forecasting Expert
PeopleSoft General Ledger & nVision Expert
Hyperion Planning Expert
About Your Presenters
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…the life expectancy of companies have been shrinking steadily. In 1938 the life expectancy of an S&P
Fortune 500 company was about 75 years. In 2010 it had shrunk to about 15 years. -- Richard Foster
CHANGE – THE ONE CONSTANT
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Your budget
tool
needs to
handle a
changing,
accelerating
business
environment.
CHANGE – THE ONE CONSTANT
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“A budget is a systematic method of allocating financial,
physical, and human resources to achieve strategic goals.
Companies develop budgets in order to monitor progress toward
their goals, help control spending, and predict cash flow and
profit.”
From: “Best practices: Developing Budgets”
http://www.inc.com/articles/2000/01/16379.html
WHAT IS A BUDGET?
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Budgeting focuses on controlling spending to ensure the
company has enough income and cash to operate.
It’s about not failing.
Planning focuses on “things” (headcount, units produced, sales
calls, etc).
While budgeting is about money, the purpose of planning is to
figure out how a company can best implement its strategy and
achieve its objectives. It’s about succeeding. -- From Robert Kugel, Ventana Research
THE BUDGET AND THE PLAN
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1. Link the budget to corporate strategy
2. Start with the end in mind
3. Focus on business drivers
4. The devil is in the details
5. Crawl, walk, then run
6. Seek help
7. Leverage the “what if?”
8. Consider rolling forecasts
WHAT ARE THE EIGHT ESSENTIALS?
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Successful companies use their budgets as strategic tools
Strategy is the “HOW” of “try and take over the world…”
For example:
• Increase market penetration in Denver by 20%
• Win three big government contracts
• Reduce system downtime by 15%
#1 LINK THE BUDGET TO STRATEGY
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• Goals are set at a high level
• Planners convert the strategic goal in to financial numbers
• Benefits of tying the budget to strategic goals: • Gives a clearer basis for making budgeting decisions.
• Brings the entire organization in to sync
#1 LINK THE BUDGET TO STRATEGY
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Prepare yourself to face these questions:
• What generated this number?
• Why did this number change?
#2 START WITH THE END IN MIND
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• Capture the information you will need to make decisions • Operational data
• Financial data
• Usually finance reports are a good place to start
• Pull the covers back to see the details
• Build a structure that will support pulling that data
• Remember management reports
#2 START WITH THE END IN MIND
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Cost or Revenue Driver:
• Consider the 80/20 rule or the Pareto principle – drivers are those 20% of the total
that drive 80% of the results
• Driver based planning includes operational data as well as financial data
• Drivers are particular to your business and strategy
#3 DRIVERS
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• Financial Drivers:
Price, Volume, Margin, COGS, AR Days, AP Days, Inventory Days
• Non-financial Drivers
Call Volume, Employee Turnover, % Orders fulfilled, Customer
Satisfaction, Returns
#3 DRIVERS Examples:
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Understanding what drives your business:
• Tells you what matters
• Helps you know the variables for your budget and forecasts
• Focus on results
Some companies use Activity Based Costing (ABC) to improve budget
data by identifying drivers
#3 DRIVERS
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Once drivers are identified – budget for items that have similar drivers
as a group.
For example:
• Headcount drives office supplies, travel expense, salaries, and
many other
#3 DRIVERS
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“Accurate cost information is fundamental to budgeting. Companies that
use accurate cost management techniques and provide budget
developers with ready access to cost information improve both the
accuracy and the speed of their budget process.” From: “Best practices: Developing Budgets”
http://www.inc.com/articles/2000/01/16379.html
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
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• It’s important to have the RIGHT information in the RIGHT
amount IN the system in order to be able to answer the
important questions QUICKLY
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
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• Expect multiple inputs • Finance data
• HR data
• Operational data
• Other information not stored in the ERP
• Extract, Transform, Load • Loads the information according to rules
• Transforming is good
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS Right-sizing the data is part art and science
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• Too much information • Increases complexity
• Creates long processing and calculation times
• Delays the ability to make decisions
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
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• Too little information • Diminishes accuracy
• Delays analysis
• Fuzzy understanding
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
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“The only guarantee with respect to budgeting is that the more detailed
the budget is, the more wrong it will be.”
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS
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What are the details?
• Amounts of information, that when taken in comparison to the size
of the organization, are useful for making decisions
• Use the 80/20 rule to decide what amounts of information are
significant and worth budgeting
• For example: Budget for the top 20% of customers individually, then
the next 80% as a group or groups.
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS The Principle
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Stream line input
• Consistent use of forms
• Enter directly in to budgeting tool
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS The Practice
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Before:
• Different business units have their own system
• Manually enter in to Excel using different spreadsheets
• Planner consolidates and enters in to her own spreadsheet
• Summary workbook uses links to spreadsheet
Disadvantages:
• Difficult to control timing and change of information
• Multiple layers make it difficult to answer questions about
detail quickly.
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS The Practice
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After:
• Same input form for each department
• Entered directly into budget tool
• Budget tool controls version
Benefits:
• Control
• Simplicity
#4 THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS The Practice
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What budgeting tool do most companies use today?
#5 CRAWL, WALK, RUN The Principle
67% Excel
Source: Institute of Management Accountants SBA (1) – spreadsheet budget applications
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Consider the roll out of functionality in phases.
• What you learn in phase 1, will improve phase 2.
• What you learn in phase 2, will improve phase 3, etc.
• What is worth automating is worth doing manually first.
• A phased approach puts functionality in the hands of users • Faster
• Less errors, because there is less to go wrong
• Test, test, test
#5 CRAWL, WALK, RUN The Principle
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The correct way:
• Builds user confidence
• Ensures system integrity
• Keeps hope alive
#5 CRAWL, WALK, RUN The Power
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1. Using a flamethrower when you needed a match 1. Getting a budgeting system that is far more than what you need.
2. Expensive to buy, expensive to maintain
3. Never implement it fully.
#6 SEEK HELP
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2. Building a Cadillac when you needed a bicycle 1. Introducing too much complexity
2. Long implementation
3. Higher risk
#6 SEEK HELP
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3. A plan that incorporates: • Change management
• Training
• Testing
• Contingency plans
#6 SEEK HELP
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“Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.”
-- Mike Tyson
#7 LEVERAGE THE “WHAT IF”
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• Plan for potential “what if” scenarios
• For example: Worst, Average, Best case scenarios
• This makes management better prepared for sudden market
changes.
• Decisions made early to cut or increase spending as a
response to changing market conditions allow the company to
gain a competitive advantage
#7 LEVERAGE THE “WHAT IF”
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• “The goal of forecasting is NOT to predict the future but to tell
you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the
present.”
--Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future, Stanford University
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS
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• Actual data for the year
plus
• Budget/Forecast for the remainder of the year
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS What is a forecast?
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• Extends for 12 months (overlaps years)
• At the end of each accounting period • The same period is forecasted for the next year
• The remaining periods are updated to account for new information
• Continual budgeting cycle
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS What is a rolling forecast?
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From: “Managing with Rolling Forecasts” by John Stretch
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS Some differences between a traditional budget and a
rolling forecast
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• Forecast horizon fits your business cycle – 12, 15, 18 months
• Many companies forecast quarterly
• Forecast at a lower level of detail for transactions that are
further out in the future.
• Increase detail as time draws near.
• Put more effort in to the near term horizon (the next 90 days)
• Focus on drivers
• Review monthly
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS How is a forecast used?
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• Targets based on current not outdated information • Fewer “excuse variances”
• Strategy becomes a continual discussion
• Adaptability
• Facilitates the creation of the annual budget
• Improves ability to forecast to shareholders
• Reduces game playing with numbers
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS What are the benefits of a forecast?
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• Reduces game playing with numbers
“Budgeting is the bane of corporate America.
It should never have existed.
Making a budget
is an exercise in minimization.
You’re always getting
the lowest out of people,
because everyone is negotiating
to get the lowest number.”
--Jack Welch, former CEO, General Electric
#8 ROLLING FORECASTS
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1. Link the budget to corporate strategy
2. Start with the end in mind
3. Focus on business drivers
4. The devil is in the details
5. Crawl, walk, then run
6. Seek help
7. Leverage the “what if?”
8. Consider rolling forecasts
WHAT ARE THE EIGHT ESSENTIALS?
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