Capital Budgeting & Portfolio Prioritization
Allocate scarce capital across claims nobody wants to rank.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Audit findings repeat, controls live in spreadsheets, and capital budgeting is managed as a compliance chore rather than built as a capability. The analysts who wanted to build decision support leave for employers whose data lets them — and the capability gap compounds. You will rebuild a broken process with your own hands in the lab — because executives who have done the work once stop accepting promises about it.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Redesign the capital budgeting operating model around decision support, not transaction processing.
- Produce the capital budgeting dashboard a board actually uses.
- Build capital budgeting reporting that changes decisions — speed, quality and trust.
- Defend a capital budgeting transformation plan before board, audit and budget committee.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
Two Versions of the Truth, One Signature
Days before a bond issuance, the two largest divisions of a regional airline report materially different group numbers; the charts of accounts disagree, and the CFO must sign the offering circular. The market opens in 72 hours.
Your decision: Delay the issuance, disclose with qualifications, or force a reconciliation overnight — and decide who owns the capital budgeting architecture that allowed this.
IPAT Data Lab™
The capital budgeting close at a diversified industrial group runs on spreadsheets held together by three indispensable people.
Dataset: Synthetic general-ledger extract with the reconciliation issues every month-end reveals.
Your task: Rebuild the close as a controlled pipeline, automate the reporting layer, and document the audit trail.
An automated capital budgeting close design an auditor would accept.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Design the finance function your institution needs: data architecture, automated processes, and a decision dashboard — with a 90-day starting sequence.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT FIT Framework™
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • Financial close and reporting benchmarks
- • Master data management principles
- • Zero-based process design
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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