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❏ Do you use account codes? If not, would they help?
❏ Do you have three sets of budgetary assumptions?
•a detailed set for yourself, to make budgeting easier next
year
•a short one for accounting, focusing on financial issues
•a one-page business summary of your budget
❏ Prepare an agenda for your next meeting and use it to run
the meeting. See if it helps make the meeting less frustrat-
ing and more useful.
❏ Why are scope and level of detail important in preparing a
presentation?
❏ Prepare yourself fully for a presentation using the seven
steps to creating a good presentation. Then, don’t forget to
practice!
❏ Remember to create the content first—focusing on the pur-
pose of the meeting. Making a presentation look good
comes later.
❏ When could you use a presentation slideshow?
