The course is presented in three parts. First, the course reveals the 3 environments forecasts and budgets are made and compares each one of them. Next, the course presents 6 challenges in budget modeling and reporting. They include: o How to accommodate Operation Team’s need to work from Excel while all budgets are in the Planning system? o How to build an interactive budgeting model in Excel? o How to write into a PivotTable? Last, we provide 6 solutions to the above 6 challenges in budget modeling and reporting. They include: o Building an interactive budgeting model that allows the Operation Team to make changes to forecasts and budgets and see the results instantaneously o Building an “editable” PivotTable that allows Operation Team to put forecasts and budgets directly in the PivotTable report. o Consolidating Actuals, Forecasts, and Budgets from different data sources by using Power Query o Building integrated Slides from Excel Reports: Field of Study: Computer Software & Applications