Course description
The effective management ofbudgeting and cost controlis crucial for contemporary organizations. Nowadays, if companies want to stay competitive, they are urged to think in terms of process-value added to customers/shareholders. It is essential value is increased for the stakeholder while the organisation controls their business processes and budget. This has led to an amplified focus on budget management, operational cost control and tracking critical business processes.
This program has been developed for professionals who are responsible for improving the performance of a team or department while simultaneously reducing costs where necessary.
Through the use of a combination of technical analysis, problem solving and case studies this course will provide the delegate with the latest innovations in essential budgetary and cost awareness analysis that would stand up to the most rigorous of external scrutiny.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Budgeting and Cost Control Course ideal for:
- Those in charge for designing and managing a budgetary system
- 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 professionals, R&D professionals, sales/marketing professionals, general accounting professionals, business unit professionals
- Anyone who wants to understand the basics of budgeting, costing and performance measurement
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this Budgeting and Cost Control Course, you will able to:
- Understand the peaks and troughs of income and expenditure
- Learn costing and budgeting terminology used in business
- Master techniques for cost-benefit analysis
- Learn how to construct profit, cash and balance sheet plans and budgets
- Learn how to evaluate variances from plan and identify corrective actions
- Cover the different types of cost
- Evaluate the differences between traditional and innovative budget analysis
- Understand Activity Based Budgeting
- Capital Budgeting Techniques and Cash Flow
- Understand the key financial indicators and how to monitor accordingly
- The role of project management within cost control
- Evaluate the connection between budget processes and business improvement
Training Course Content
Day 1
The need for Financial Control in business
- Understanding accounting
- Management accounting versus financial accounting
- The relationship between business management and financial management
- How budgeting fits into the bigger picture
- How cost management improves an organisation’s financial position
- Key aspects of managing working capital
Day 2
Capital Budgeting and Investment Appraisal
- The time value of money
- Understanding Appraisal Techniques – Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Payback period
- Selecting an appraisal technique
- The use of Sensitivity analysis in evaluating projects
- Strategic considerations in assessing capital projects
- Creating an effective Capital Budgeting framework
Day 3
Cost Analysis and Management
- Understanding cost structure and behaviour
- Costs as a relationship to outputs – cost/volume/price relationship
- The concept of contribution margin
- Break-even analysis for planning and control
- Cost allocation and apportionment
- Benefit-cost analysis
Day 4
Full Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing
- Comparing full and marginal costing
- Direct and indirect costs in budgeting for decision making
- Role of costs in pricing strategies
- Activity Based Costing (ABC)
- Managing cost control
Day 5
Budget Construction and Control
- Nature and purpose of budgets for planning and control
- Types of budgets and budgeting
- Creating Key Performance Indicators for financial and non financial performance
- Building a budget
- Budgetary control and variance analysis
- Budgeting for non-financial measures -introducing the Balanced Scorecard
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