For many people creating and evaluating business budgets and forecasts is intimidating. This applied course is designed to demystify the subject as students study, create and evaluate budgets and forecasts.

This course will provide students tools as they create an entrepreneurial budget and forecast. In addition, you’ll learn about metrics that entrepreneurs, investors and banks use to evaluate these financial materials. Along the way we’ll consider budgets for different types of businesses, including B2B, B2C, products, subscriptions and services.

We’ll cover budget topics such as unit economics, breakeven, margin analysis, customer acquisition cost and marketing efficiency, plus forecast topics like burn rates, scaling, margin creep and north star metrics. Plus, we’ll touch on the basics of valuation and how budget materials relate to valuation.