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FinOps Budgeting

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Introduction to Budgeting in the Enterprise Context | Strategic Financial Planning & Cloud Budgeting

Learn how to connect enterprise budgets with strategic goals. Master financial planning and cloud cost management for modern organizations.

Master the art of enterprise budgeting with strategic vision.
The course “Introduction to Budgeting in the Enterprise Context” teaches you how to transform budgets into a powerful tool that aligns finance, technology, and corporate strategy. Beyond numbers, you’ll learn to build the financial roadmap that translates a company’s vision into measurable results.

Throughout the program, you’ll understand how the hierarchical structure of enterprise budgeting works — from the overall corporate budget to IT budgets and their sub-layer of cloud budgeting — and how each level integrates to drive smarter, more strategic decision-making.

You will learn how to:

  • Design strategic budgets that connect investment to business objectives.

  • Manage technology costs effectively across cloud and on-premise environments.

  • Apply financial planning principles to improve profitability and forecasting.

  • Foster collaboration between finance, IT, and operations, ensuring unified spending visibility.

  • Adapt to the new financial paradigm of CapEx to OpEx driven by cloud computing.

With a practical and up-to-date approach, this course prepares you to understand budgeting as the bridge between strategy, technology, and profitability. It’s ideal for finance professionals, IT leaders, and managers seeking to optimize resources and maximize impact.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Design strategic enterprise budgets that align investment with business objectives
  • Understand corporate-to-IT-to-cloud budgeting hierarchies
  • Manage technology costs across cloud and on-prem
  • Apply financial planning to improve profitability and forecasting
  • Foster collaboration across finance, IT, and operations
  • Adapt to the CapEx-to-OpEx paradigm.

Course Content

Module 1: Foundations of Enterprise Budgeting

  • 1.1 Introduction to Budgeting in the Enterprise Context
  • 1.2 The Structure and Hierarchy of Budgets (Enterprise > IT > Cloud)
  • 1.3 Strategic Financial Planning and Business Alignment
  • 1.4 The Role of Technology in Modern Enterprise Cost Structures
  • Quiz

Module 2: The IT Budget: Planning, Governance, and Accountability

Module 3: Cloud Budgeting Within the FinOps Framework

Module 4: Planning your first Cloud Budget as FinOps Lead

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NA
2 months ago
Great tips!
AE
2 months ago
Good as initial introduction to the concepts of budgeting. Obviously each enterprise has its own cycles, but principles are the good ones
SM
3 months ago
Excellent Course if you are new and need to know more about budgeting
TC
3 months ago
good
SR
3 months ago
Very informative course
RS
3 months ago
The short FinOps Budgeting course gave a clear understanding of how to plan and manage cloud costs smartly. It explained in an easy way how traditional IT finance is different in the cloud, why budgeting control is important, and how to align cloud spending and forecasting with company goals.
DM
3 months ago
The course is very insightful. I learned a lot about budgeting, forecasting and cost allocation which is very helpful.
RT
3 months ago
Excellent course by Anderson which convey knowledge, skills, and a framework to improve a FinOps Practitioner in cloud budgeting!
S
4 months ago
Awesome!!

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