Budgeting & Forecasting Tips to Set Yourself Up for FY26 Success

Start the new financial year with confidence and clarity. This practical, hands-on webinar will equip small business owners with the tools and knowledge needed to build effective budgets and forecasts for FY26.

Whether you’re starting from scratch or refining existing processes, you’ll walk away with practical insights and a live example you can adapt for your business.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

• Understand the fundamentals of budgeting and forecasting

• Create realistic, flexible financial plans aligned with your business strategy

• Build a live budget file tailored to FY26

• Use simple AI tools to improve the accuracy of your forecasts

• Apply variance analysis to track and manage budget deviations

Perfect for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to sharpen their financial planning skills ahead of the new fiscal year.

Please note that this session will not be recorded.

Meet your facilitator: Gurnaina Kochhar

Gurnaina is an Australian Chartered Accountant with over a decade of experience in providing high-quality accounting, auditing, & financial advisory/CFO services. As a former Deloitte Auditor, she audited High Net-Worth Individuals, and Companies across various industries (including Hospitality, FMCG, Retail, Education, Sports, Financial Investment Advisory as well as Not for Profits). Her career also includes roles as a Management Accountant at Tata Global Beverages Australia and Director of Finance for a leading hospitality chain, where she honed her strategic financial management skills.

She founded Evolgro two years ago with a mission to help SMEs evolve and grow, with part -time VCFO Services and provides services across four key areas:

1. Outsourced Book-keeping

2. Financial & Management Reporting -FP&A (including Profitability analysis, forecasting , scenario planning etc)

3. Review and Setup best practice operational & financial processes for scaling businesses

4. Investor Pitch Decks and strategy analysis