An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management
The Complete Course on Budget - Estimating, Budgeting & Cost Control
Course Introduction
This Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course provides participants with key cost awareness and budgetary skills, which are essential for managing and controlling resources in times of increasing global competition where the budgets are inextricably linked with both the achievement of strategic objectives as well as with evaluation of future plans and initiatives.
Budgeting and cost analysis are crucial elements for the management of contemporary organizations. Nowadays, if companies want to stay competitive, they are urged to link their strategies with accurate systems of resource allocation and performance measurement. Along this line, budgeting, as well as tracking, controlling & reducing cost represent essential activities to be performed and monitored by organizations as they implement their key processes, activities and operations. In addressing these issues, this training course is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge of improving performance while reducing costs of those processes for which there are accountable.
In particular, this Advanced Budgeting and Cost Management training course enables participants to:
- Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution
- Understand the critical factors which have an impact on business processes
- Discuss about modern system of cost analysis for budgeting purposes
- Master the budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making
- Identify sources of financial and operational data to support the budgeting process
- Explore the best practices required to manage the multiple organizational performances
Objectives
By the end of this Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course, you will be able to:
- Understand Costing and Budgeting terminology used in business
- Implement a well-defined costing and budgeting process
- Determine full costs of outputs for the goods and services provided
- Master traditional techniques and recent best practices on budgeting / cost management
- Link finance and operation for budgeting purposes and strategy execution
- Learn how to build a comprehensive performance measurement system
Training Methodology
This Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course will utilize a variety of proven online learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. The training course is conducted Online via an Advanced Virtual Learning Platform in the comfort of any location of your choice.
Organisational Impact
- Cost and budgeting awareness will be enhanced
- Higher chances to design or select a budgetary system that works
- Broadened knowledge of performance management techniques
- Better attitude to link cost and budgeting to strategy and performance measurement
- Deeper understanding of cause and effect relationship for budgeting purposes
- Better awareness of non-financial implications of budgeting and cost management
Personal Impact
By attending this Advanced Budgeting and Cost Management training course, delegates will:
- Understand the budgeting methods most useful to them
- Understand how to construct a relevant and efficient budget
- Learn to evaluate the usefulness of costing techniques in accurately calculating and ensuring profitability
- Reinforce and expand their knowledge by linking budgeting to strategy and performance measurement
- Broaden their understanding by linking financial and operational issues
Who Should Attend?
This Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- The staff person who will be responsible for entering data into the budget system or training others how to enter information
- Those who want to gain control of the firm's financial standing and obtain a firm grasp on the numbers side of their job
- Financial Professional, Professional R&D, Sales / Marketing Professional, General Accounting Professional, Business Unit Professional
- Anyone who wants to refine and advance the budgeting and costing knowledge
Course Outline
Day One
Introduction: The Relevance of Budgeting and Cost Management within Strategy Execution
- The Link between Strategy, Planning, Budgeting and Cost Management
- Why Budgeting and Costing are so important to manage your company?
- Financial & Management Accounting
- Preparing Financial Statements & Cost Evaluation
- Understand your Processes: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Aspects
- Identify and Discuss the Key issues in terms of Budget / Costing for your own Organization
Day Two
The Budgeting Framework and its Role within the Management Process
- The Role & Types of Budgets within Management Accounting
- The Budget Process
- Preparing the Master Budget & Departmental Budgets
- Preparing a Project/CAPEX Budget
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Budgets & the Budget Process: The Critical issues for Success
- Budgetary Control
Day Three
Cost Management for Budgeting Purposes
- Cost Classification, Concepts and Terminology
- Fixed vs. Variable Costs: The Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Model
- Contribution Margin Analysis
- Estimating / Forecasting Costs
- Calculating, Evaluating & Managing the Cost of:
- Purchases
- Manufacture
- Inventory (IAS 2)
- Working Capital
- Improving Efficiency to Reduce Costs
Day Four
Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-control
- Under-costing and Over-costing: The Consequences for Profitability
- How to refine a Costing System?
- Indirect vs. Direct costs: Traditional Cost Allocations Systems vs. Activity-Based Costing
- Cost Drivers: Linking Resources, Activities and Management
- Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) and Management (ABM)
Day Five
Broadening the Performance Measurement Systems
- Shortcomings of Traditional Approaches to Budgeting and Performance Measurement
- Recent Best Practices: the Balanced Scorecard and Six-sigma
- Financial Perspective and Customer Perspective
- Internal Business Process Perspective and Learning & Growth Perspective
- Developing and Adapting the Scorecard
- Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line: Profit, People & Planet
Certificate
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
Accreditation
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