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AI-Powered Budgeting and Financial Forecasting
Prepare history you can forecast from, build driver-based budgets, back-test forecasts against a baseline, report them as ranges, run scenarios and govern the pack, using AI only where it helps.
Watch the first lesson freeWelcome: who this course is for and where it goes · 3 minSign in to watch one lesson from this course free.
What you will be able to do
Prepare and reconcile history into a tidy table you can forecast fromBuild a driver-based budget and explain variances as favourable or adverseBack-test forecasts against naive and seasonal baselines with a rolling originReport a forecast as a range using smoothing, SARIMAX or ProphetRun scenarios, sensitivity tables and a thirteen-week cash forecastGovern an AI-assisted forecast pack and write the business case for it
Skills you will gain
- Driver-based budgeting
- Variance analysis
- Forecast back-testing
- Prediction intervals
- Scenario analysis
- Cash forecasting
About this course
Prepare history you can forecast from, build driver-based budgets, back-test forecasts against a baseline, report them as ranges, run scenarios and govern the pack, using AI only where it helps.
AI Literacy
Curriculum
Requirements
How a budget and a variance work
Spreadsheets, and a little statistics
A spreadsheet tool, or Python 3.9 or newer
Made up data only
A free chat assistant account
What you walk away with
A Yallo AI academy certificate of completion, issued when every lesson is complete and the final assessment is passed at 70% or aboveA public verification page, so a stranger can check the certificate without asking you for a filePDF download, and a one-click share to your LinkedIn profile
Yallo AI academy certifies completion of
AI-Powered Budgeting and Financial Forecasting