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Objectives
- Participants attending the programme will:
- 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
- Use and build EXCEL spreadsheets for financial analysis, from basic models through to Monte Carlo simulation
Outlines
Day 1 :
The need for Financial Control in Business
- Understanding accounting
- Management account versus financial accounting
- Cost behaviors in Cost-Volume-Profit scenarios
- Breakeven and targeted net income scenarios
- Business cases with master budgets
- Benefit-cost analysis
Day 2 :
Capital Costs and Investment Appraisal
- Estimating cash flows within the business system
- Understanding Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Defining the approval criteria and review process
- Post-implementation audits of capital projects
- Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty
- Monte Carlo simulation techniques in budgeting
Day 3 :
Cost Volume Profit Analysis
- Identifying relevant costs in complex decisions
- Complex applications of C-V-P analysis
- Multiple products and services C-V-P
- Evaluating C-V-P before and after implementation
- Special sales orders and/or segment analysis
- Make or buy decisions
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
- Overhead allocation methods and difficulties
- Variance analysis of materials, labour, & overhead in manufacturing and services
- Activity Based Costing (ABC) in manufacturing and services
Day 5 :
Budget Construction and Control
- Budgeting as a communication process
- Nature and purpose of budgets for planning and control
- Budgetary control and variance analysis
- Responsibility centers: cost, profit and investment
- Segment reporting internally and externally
Who Should Attend
- Professionals who need to evaluate plans for approval and variance reports for corrective action and who need to improve their skills in constructing and controlling budgets
- Employees from every discipline and department who have to manage departments and plan, cost, and budget during their business careers
- Anyone from non-financial disciplines who needs to evaluate proposed business expenditure decisions and who need to know more about the budgeting process
Duration
5 Days
