Episode 5: Using KPIs to Inform the Budget Process and Next Year Planning

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Episode 5: Using KPIs to Inform the Budget Process and Next Year Planning

Budget planning isn’t easy even during a normal year, but by looking at business drivers, you may be able to set a more accurate, objective-oriented plan for the next quarter and year. This episode takes a closer look at how leadership teams can get back on track with a budget that sees them through lingering COVID-19 disruption and beyond.

Kyle Ludwig of the CBIZ CMF team shares insights, including:

  • Identifying the purpose behind your budget and the importance of aligning strategies to meet that purpose
  • Different approaches to the budget process
  • Tips for ensuring that your budget is successful, including tips for setting up responsibility and ownership structure of the plan
  • Suggestions for how to bridge the most recent periods of performance to prior year results

 

Guest: Kyle Ludwig, Managing Director

Kyle leads the organization’s Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis practice where he delivers engagements to help companies drive value through data analytics, and improvements to financial and operational reporting.

 

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Episode 5: Using KPIs to Inform the Budget Process and Next Year Planninghttps://www.cbiz.com/Portals/0/Images/IP-AR-WhatsNextPodcast-Episode-1.jpg?ver=2020-12-06-124658-6602021 budget planning has been particularly difficult due to the uncertainty around when operations may fully return to “normal” levels. Kyle Ludwig of CBIZ CMF explains how driver-based planning can help quantify unknowns to set a detailed Q4 and 2021 budget....2020-10-13T11:05:18-05:00

2021 budget planning has been particularly difficult due to the uncertainty around when operations may fully return to “normal” levels. Kyle Ludwig of CBIZ CMF explains how driver-based planning can help quantify unknowns to set a detailed Q4 and 2021 budget.

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