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Finance and Accounting Courses

Budgeting & Cost Control

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Introduction:

All business decision-making involves analyzing situations containing varying degrees of risk. This program uncovers the essential skills required to understand the processes of budgeting and cost control for better decision-making. From understanding the importance of a well-defined budget process through to the importance of how costs behave so that realistic cost-cutting and budgeting plans can be produced.

Targeted Groups:

  • Financial Professional
  • R&D Professional
  • General Accounting Professional
  • Business Unit Professional
  • Anyone who wants to refine and advance their budgeting and costing knowledge
  • 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

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

  • Identify the principal factors required to produce a successful business case
  • Develop budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making
  • Identify sources of financial and business data to support the budgeting process
  • Learn new techniques and methodologies to simulate typical business scenarios
  • Understand the importance of a well-defined budget process
  • 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
  • Understand discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques and their application to financial decision making
  • Build and use budgets relevant to your organization

Targeted Competencies:

  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Planning and budgeting
  • Cost control
  • Capital budgeting
  • Applying cost-volume-profit analysis
  • Utilizing breakeven analysis

Course Content:

Unit 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 organization’s financial position
  • Key aspects of managing working capital

Unit 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

Unit 3: Cost Analysis and Management: 

  • Understanding cost structure and behavior
  • 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

Unit 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

Unit 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

UAE (Dubai)
18/7/2021 - 22/7/2021
Euro 2500
UAE (Dubai)
11/4/2021 - 15/4/2021
Euro 2500
UAE (Dubai)
24/1/2021 - 28/1/2021
Euro 2500
UAE (Dubai)
12/12/2021 - 16/12/2021
Euro 2500
Egypt (Cairo)
21/3/2021 - 25/3/2021
Euro 2500
Egypt (Cairo)
6/6/2021 - 10/6/2021
Euro 2500
Egypt (Cairo)
28/11/2021 - 2/12/2021
Euro 2500
Morocco (Casablanca)
28/2/2021 - 4/3/2021
Euro 2500
Jordan (Amman)
16/5/2021 - 20/5/2021
Euro 2500
Jordan (Amman)
15/8/2021 - 19/8/2021
Euro 2500
UK (London)
30/8/2021 - 3/9/2021
Euro 4500
UK (London)
25/1/2021 - 29/1/2021
Euro 4500
UK (London)
29/11/2021 - 3/12/2021
Euro 4500
Egypt (Sharm El-Sheikh)
29/8/2021 - 2/9/2021
Euro 2500
Egypt (Sharm El-Sheikh)
16/5/2021 - 20/5/2021
Euro 2500
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
5/12/2021 - 9/12/2021
Euro 3500
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
22/8/2021 - 26/8/2021
Euro 3500
Turkey (Istanbul)
14/3/2021 - 18/3/2021
Euro 3000
Turkey (Istanbul)
15/8/2021 - 19/8/2021
Euro 3000
Turkey (Istanbul)
18/4/2021 - 22/4/2021
Euro 3000
Turkey (Istanbul)
21/11/2021 - 25/11/2021
Euro 3000
France (Paris)
12/7/2021 - 16/7/2021
Euro 4500
France (Paris)
22/2/2021 - 26/2/2021
Euro 4500
Switzerland (Geneva)
12/7/2021 - 16/7/2021
Euro 4500
Spain (Barcelona)
20/9/2021 - 24/9/2021
Euro 4500
Spain (Barcelona)
1/2/2021 - 5/2/2021
Euro 4500
Spain (Barcelona)
10/5/2021 - 14/5/2021
Euro 4500
Italy (Rome)
29/3/2021 - 2/4/2021
Euro 4500
Italy (Rome)
13/12/2021 - 17/12/2021
Euro 4500
Manama (Bahrain)
28/2/2021 - 4/3/2021
Euro 2500
Manama (Bahrain)
26/9/2021 - 30/9/2021
Euro 2500
Oman(Muscat)
4/7/2021 - 8/7/2021
Euro 2500
Kuwait (Kuwait)
27/6/2021 - 1/7/2021
Euro 2500
Spain (madrid)
27/9/2021 - 1/10/2021
Euro 4500
Spain (madrid)
19/4/2021 - 23/4/2021
Euro 4500
Singapore (Singapore)
27/12/2021 - 31/12/2021
Euro 4500
USA (Boston)
11/10/2021 - 15/10/2021
Euro 5000
Netherlands (Amsterdam)
23/8/2021 - 27/8/2021
Euro 4500
Netherlands (Amsterdam)
7/6/2021 - 11/6/2021
Euro 4500
Canada (Toronto)
23/8/2021 - 27/8/2021
Euro 5000
Germany (Munich)
29/3/2021 - 2/4/2021
Euro 4500
Online
28/2/2021 - 4/3/2021
Euro 1250
Online
7/11/2021 - 11/11/2021
Euro 1250
Online
5/9/2021 - 9/9/2021
Euro 1250
Online
30/5/2021 - 3/6/2021
Euro 1250

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