Excel for Financial Planning covers all aspects of budget preparation, from designing and creating a budgetary control system, consolidating data and working with spreadsheets. Now fully updated to include the latest version of Excel and includes a useful CD-ROM containing worked examples and spreadsheet templates, for easy budgeting. For all qualified and part qualified management accountants who use Excel on a daily basis in budget planning, this book is a must. It contains a wealth of practical examples, tips, new techniques all designed to help you quickly exploit and master Excel to its full advantage and therefore use spreadsheets for more effective management accounting in your firm. * Provides quick, useful guidance on how to use Excel in management accounting * Covers basic principles of budgetary control * Explains the latest techniques for the design and creation of budgets