Practice Drills: Structuring a Simple Business Budget

A hands-on drill course for startup founders, treasury teams, HR and L&D professionals, and employees outside finance who are asked to build or own a budget. You take one illustrative small Indian business and build its FY budget from scratch in Google Sheets or Excel: pull last year's actuals into a clean template, build revenue from volume and price drivers, phase it across the months around festive and seasonal swings, budget direct costs, payroll with PF and ESI, operating expenses and capex, assemble the monthly budgeted P&L and break-even point, convert it into a cash budget that respects GST and credit terms, test base, downside and upside cases, and then run a monthly budget vs actual review and present the whole thing on one page.