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Provides an array of professional business and financial training services that stem from improving a corporate's treasury workflow —all the way to efficient, finance training programs.

Course Overview

This Effective Budgeting and Cost Control workshop will allow the participants to understand the main concepts and methodologies around cost management and budgeting, and explore new thoughts in the planning, control, and budgeting cycle, resulting in a renewed energy in returning to the workplace and implementing a more focused budgeting process, which communicates useful and timely information to management.
The workshop will provide a framework for each topic covered, and then will make extensive use of exercises and case studies to allow participants to apply on real-life examples.

Learning Outcome

Acquire best practices in budgeting

Understand the strategic role of cost concepts

Prepare a master budget and explain the interrelationships among its supporting schedule

Understand zero-base, activity based, and kaizen approaches to budgeting

Measure and evaluate performance

Leverage emerging technologies for delivering operational excellence

Course Outline

  • The critical functions of management
  • Aligning the budget with the strategy of the organization
  • Road map to strategy
  • Budget as a planning tool
  • Control: the missing link
  • Planning pitfalls

  • The accounting system
  • The income statement
  • The balance sheet
  • The cash flow statement

  • The advantages of budgeting
  • The budget process
  • Rolling budgets
  • The master budget
  • Operating and capital budgets
  • The budgeted financial statements
  • Approaches to budgeting
  • Tools of forecasting
  • Direct and indirect costs
  • Characteristics of an effective budget
  • Problems in budgeting

  • Budget as a control tool
  • The control process
  • Characteristics of an effective control system
  • Responsibility reporting
  • Variance analysis: identifying the components of variance
  • Variance analysis: taking the corrective action

  • Time value of money
  • Simple versus compound interest
  • Identifying and analyzing cash flows
  • The discount rate: using cost of capital
  • Net Present Value (NPV)
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
  • Profitability Index (PI)
  • Pay-Back Period (PBP)
  • Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
  • Approval for Expenditure (AFE)
  • Sensitivity and risk analysis

  • Identifying the fixed costs and variable costs
  • Computing breakeven point in units
  • Computing breakeven point in sales
  • Assumptions of CVP analysis
  • Using CVP in budgeting decisions

Who Should Attend

Professionals from every business discipline = department who have to run budgetary plans, and who are responsible for cost and strategic analysis=Professionals who need to build, modify, and understand budgeting, cost, and management accounting=Professionals with some costing experience who have the responsibility of developing or maintaining budgeting, cost, and management accounting=Corporate finance and structured finance professionals who want to increase the depth and breadth of their knowledge