Learn the 25 keys to preparing operating and financial budgets, including forecasting costs, revenues, and profits in the short and long-term, understanding costs and revenue behavior, and building financial models.

Forecasting Budgets is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA Series is, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons. Each volume, written by professors from top graduate business schools and edited by The New York Times business editors, presents 25 key principles of specific areas of business expertise.

The 12-volume series includes:

• Analyzing Financial Statements
• Business Financing
• Business Planning
• Forecasting Budgets
• Going Global
• Growing & Managing a Business
• Leadership & Vision
• Managing Investment
• Organizing a Company
• Sales & Marketing
• The Board of Directors
• Tracking & Controlling Costs

Norman Moore, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He has taught at the graduate, MBA, graduate EMBA and undergraduate levels, and has served as President and CEO of Systronics, Inc., where he oversaw design, development and implementation of accounting/financial information applications for stand-alone and timeshare computer systems.

Grover Gardner has recorded over 450 audiobooks and was named one of Audiofile Magazine's Golden Voices of 1999. He is a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, Resident Director at Everyman Theater in Baltimore and has received 5 Helen Hayes Award nominations for his work.