Corporate planning

This course equips Finance & Controlling professionals with the skills to coordinate various types of partial plans—factual, temporal, hierarchical, and organizational—to ensure alignment with corporate objectives. It explores successive and simultaneous approaches, rolling planning, the planning hierarchy, and top-down vs. bottom-up planning approaches. Through some examples, the course illustrates how Controllers use tools like budgeting software, predictive analytics, and feedback loops to align plans, optimize resources, and enhance strategic and operational coherence.

• Basics of corporate planning
• Planning and control process
• The Controller’s role in corporate planning
• Coordination aspects in corporate planning