Certificate in Finance and Accounting Courses


Essentials of Cost Control and Budget Preparation Training

Introduction:

Planning and management control are essential for contemporary organizations. The Essentials of Budget and Cost Control training course will incorporate widely utilized tools and techniques for short-term planning, monitoring, and sustaining performance, specifically budgeting and budgetary control.

Understanding the budget preparation process, the techniques involved, and the importance of effective budgeting for cost control is vital. A realistic approach to budgeting hinges on accurate cost analysis and forecasting, highlighting the core tenets of budget preparation.

It's crucial to comprehend the behavior of costs to effectively plan, implement appropriate measures, and practically define budget preparation. Budgetary control best practice uses flexed budgets to calculate variances against actual performance, enabling necessary corrective actions.

Budget Preparation Techniques and Their Importance:

Effective budgeting and cost control training stress the need for meticulous budget preparation, employing various techniques to suit multiple organizational contexts.

Grasping the definition of fundamental budget preparation and the steps is critical for any financial professional, as this knowledge determines budgeting activities' purpose and success level.

This Essentials of Cost Control and Budget Preparation course will delve into the nuances of various types of budget preparation, underscoring their importance in achieving strategic objectives and fiscal discipline.

Targeted Groups:

  • Financial planners and controllers.
  • Financial managers and analysts.
  • Departmental and divisional managers.
  • Manufacturing, procurement, logistics, engineering, quality, and HR managers.
  • Project managers.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this Essentials of Cost Control and Budget Preparation course, participants will be able to:

  • Develop an integrated planning, budgeting, and reporting process.
  • Actively participate in the budgeting and budget preparation steps within the organization.
  • Analyze cost behavior and manage costs more effectively.
  • Master traditional and innovative budget preparation techniques.
  • Select appropriate and effective performance measurement systems and KPIs.

Targeted Competencies:

Upon the end of this Essentials of Cost Control and Budget Preparation training, participants' competencies will:

  • Management Control.
  • Budgeting and Cost Control.
  • Traditional and Activity-Based Costing & Budgeting.
  • Capital Budgeting.
  • Linking Financial and Non-Financial KPIs.

Course content:

Unit 1: Management Control:

  • Budget target-setting, participation, and control.
  • Strategic planning, budgeting, and management control systems.
  • Key elements of planning: setting objectives and responsibility accounting.
  • The role of financial control and management accounting concepts.
  • Advantages and disadvantages of budgeting.
  • Budgeting within your organization.

Unit 2: Budgeting and Cost Control:

  • The essential stages of the budget preparation process.
  • Types of budgeting preparation: incremental and zero-based budgeting.
  • Budget preparation: operating budgets and cash budgets.
  • Variable costs and fixed costs.
  • Contribution and marginal costing.
  • Decision-making using marginal costing and cost/volume/profit (CVP) analysis.

Unit 3: Traditional and Activity-Based Costing & Budgeting:

  • Costs and activities.
  • Direct costs and indirect costs, product costs, and period costs.
  • Cost allocation and absorption costing.
  • Product cost cross-subsidization and activity-based costing (ABC).
  • Activity-based budgeting (ABB).
  • Budgetary control: standard costs, flexed budgets, and variance analysis.

Unit 4: Capital Budgeting:

  • Capital investment costs and operating costs.
  • Account rate of return (ARR) and payback.
  • Discounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV).
  • Cost of equity, debt, and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC).
  • Internal and modified internal rate of return (IRR/MIRR) and discounted payback.
  • Capital rationing, budgeting, and the profitability index (PI).

Unit 5: Linking Financial and Non-Financial KPIs:

  • Plan for world-class performance.
  • Drivers of corporate and shareholder value and financial strategy.
  • The changing cost base and alternative approaches to costing.
  • The conflicts between accounting and business performance measurement.
  • Integrate financial and non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • The balanced scorecard.

Amsterdam (Netherlands)
05 - 09 Aug 2024
4900 Euro
Paris (France)
05 - 09 Aug 2024
4900 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
18 - 22 Aug 2024
3900 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
01 - 05 Sep 2024
4200 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
08 - 12 Sep 2024
2900 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
08 - 12 Sep 2024
3900 Euro
Rome (Italy)
23 - 27 Sep 2024
4900 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
13 - 17 Oct 2024
3000 Euro
Online
13 - 17 Oct 2024
1500 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
21 - 25 Oct 2024
4900 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
03 - 07 Nov 2024
3900 Euro
Munich (Germany)
11 - 15 Nov 2024
4900 Euro
London (UK)
18 - 22 Nov 2024
5200 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
25 - 29 Nov 2024
4900 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
23 - 27 Dec 2024
4900 Euro
Rome (Italy)
30 Dec 2024 - 03 Jan 2025
4900 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
19 - 23 Jan 2025
2900 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
20 - 24 Jan 2025
4900 Euro
Geneva (Switzerland)
20 - 24 Jan 2025
5500 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
02 - 06 Feb 2025
4200 Euro
Milan (Italy)
03 - 07 Feb 2025
4900 Euro
Online
09 - 13 Feb 2025
1500 Euro
Paris (France)
10 - 14 Feb 2025
4900 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
16 - 20 Feb 2025
3900 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
23 - 27 Feb 2025
3000 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
02 - 06 Mar 2025
3900 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
16 - 20 Mar 2025
3900 Euro
Lisbon (Portugal)
17 - 20 Mar 2025
4900 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
30 Mar - 20 Apr 2025
3900 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
30 Mar - 20 Apr 2025
3500 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
27 Apr - 20 May 2025
4200 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
27 Apr - 20 May 2025
3000 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
28 Apr - 20 May 2025
4900 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
05 - 20 May 2025
4900 Euro
London (UK)
05 - 20 May 2025
5200 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
18 - 20 May 2025
3500 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
09 - 13 Jun 2025
4900 Euro
Online
15 - 19 Jun 2025
1500 Euro
Casablanca (Morocco)
23 - 27 Jun 2025
3000 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
13 - 17 Jul 2025
3900 Euro

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