Why Attend
Budget control and Budgetary Execution training is essential for organizations and assists them in the decision-making and planning process. This training course provides participants with important cost awareness and budgetary skills by combining techniques analysis, problems, and examples of real case studies, which is essential in managing and controlling processes/projects in times of increasing global competition where the budgets are inextricably linked with both strategy formulation, cost control, and execution.
Instructor-led training that uses interactive learning methods, including class discussion, small group activities, and role-playing
Successfully build integrated planning, budgeting, and reporting process; Understand costs behavior more accurately; Deliver more timely and useful information to decision-makers; Understand capital budgeting; Identify & manage key financial indicators for the business; Be able to use specific cost analysis and performance measurement techniques; Be prepared to understand and implement the Balanced Scorecards; Be prepared to interpret the financial impact of strategic directions; Understand the problems of overheads allocation and how Activity-Based Analysis may aid decision-making and pricing strategies; Select the performance measurement systems that work; Think proactively beyond budgeting
DAY 1 Those in charge of 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
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DAY 1
Budgeting & Cost Control in the Management System: Link with Strategic Planning
Budgeting and the Management System of Contemporary Organizations
Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Management Control
Strategic Management Accounting – Setting Goal and Objectives
From Strategic to Operating Plans – Actions and Initiatives
Measuring and Managing the Performance – KPIs and targets
Managerial Accountability
DAY 2
Budgeting: Principles and Key Concepts
Understanding the Context for Budgeting
The Benefit of Budgeting and its Role for Achieving Organizational Targets
The Shortcomings of the Budgeting Process - How to improve them?
Principles of Budgeting
Main Issues with Budget Preparation
Capex (Capital Expenditures) vs. Opex (Operational Expenditures)
DAY 3
Cost Analysis for Budgetary Purposes
Cost Concepts and Terminology
Different Costs for Different Purposes
Fixed vs. Variable Costs: The Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Model
Contribution Margin Analysis
Manufacturing vs. Non-manufacturing Costs
Period vs. Product Costs
DAY 4
Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-Control
Under-costing and Over-costing: Understand Allocation Methods
How to refine a Costing System?
Indirect (OH) vs. Direct Costs
Traditional Cost Allocations Systems vs. Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
Cost Hierarchy & Cost Drivers - Linking Resources, Activities and Management
Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) and Management (ABM)
DAY 5
New Integrated Performance Measurement Systems
Beyond Budgeting: Integrating Financial and Pre-financial Information
The Drivers of Value Creation
The Balanced Scorecard
Strategy Maps
Integrated Reporting
Executing the Budget
Commitments and Obligations
Common Obligation Concepts
Contracts for an Indefinite Quantity
Types of Services Being Purchased
Unliquidated Obligations
Life Cycle of an Appropriation
Revolving Funds and Reimbursables
Deobligations
Other Resources
Agency-Level Modification Tools
Reporting of Resources