Introduction

Is this book right for me?

This book will be useful for anyone with an involvement in budgets or forecasts. If you have just been given a budget for the first time, or you have had a budget for a number of years but have never received any formal training about what you should be doing, then this book is for you.

Perhaps you have already considerable budgeting experience, you may be an experienced finance professional but would like to review your practice against some of the latest ideas. You might like your views and ideas tested with an alternative explanation of good practice for budgeting and forecasting. If any of this is true, then this book is for you.

Maybe you support others who build or manage budgets, or who are involved ...

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