From 3 to 7 June, Yalta hosted the corporate seminar "Modern approaches to the organisational activities of the financial and economic services of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine enterprises", attended by representatives of Softline's Controlling and Budgeting department.
The seminar programme covered the following topics:
1. Current issues of the financial and business activities of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine.
2. Modern methods of financial planning as the very foundation of effective management of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine enterprises. Development of a budgeting concept at NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine.
3. Budgeting. Practical application. Modern implementation tools.
4. New national accounting standards: what an economist needs to know.
5. Cost management at enterprises of Ukraine's oil and gas sector.
More than 130 people took part in the seminar, including the management of Ukrnafta JSC and heads of the financial and economic planning units of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine.
The key provisions of the NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine budgeting concept were presented by consultants from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Then Volodymyr Dunaiev, head of the Controlling and Budgeting department, gave a presentation on "Modern methods of introducing budgeting at large enterprises. Problems and implementation practice" and presented the corporate information system "Megapolis.Budgeting and Controlling™". This was followed by a discussion of the budgeting and controlling model in the context of creating a single industry-wide information and analytical database for the enterprises of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine.
"Megapolis.Budgeting and Controlling™" (www.budgeting.softline.kiev.ua) is a set of tools for planning, assessing and monitoring an enterprise's performance to support internal management decisions; based on multidimensional analysis of operating, financial and investment activities, it enables effective management of all accountable resources.
The "Megapolis.Budgeting and Controlling" system is designed for large enterprises with a distributed infrastructure that already use a variety of operational, production, accounting and financial record-keeping systems.