Course Overview
Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course provides participants with key cost awareness and budgetary skills, which are essential for managing and controlling resources in times of increasing global competition where the budgets are inextricably linked with both the achievement of strategic objectives as well as with evaluation of future and initiatives.
Budgeting lies at the heart of business management, yet businesses often encounter planning and financial difficulties as a result of either inadequate planning, lack of understanding of the business, or errors within the compilation of the budgets. Ineffective management reports heighten the challenge in collating inputs to the budget and use of budgeted information.
In addressing these issues, this training course is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge of improving performance while reducing costs of those processes for which there are accountable.
Course Duration
5 Days
Who Should Attend
- Financial Managers and Analysts
- Budget Officers and Planners
- Accountants and Controllers
- Project Managers
- Business Analysts
- Corporate Executives and Decision-Makers
- Anyone involved in the financial planning and reporting process
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to
- Understand the principles and importance of budgeting and planning in an organization.
- Develop comprehensive budgets and financial plans aligned with organizational goals.
- Utilize various budgeting techniques and methodologies.
- Implement effective management reporting systems.
- Analyze financial data to support strategic decision-making.
- Communicate financial information clearly to stakeholders.
- Identify and manage financial risks.
- Enhance their skills in financial forecasting and variance analysis.
Course Outline:
Module 1: Planning Strategy and Corporate Governance
- What are planning strategies?
- Strategy analysis, choice & implementation
- The role of strategy maps in defining the business
- Effective and less effective management reporting practice
- The agency problem and corporate governance
- Planning requirements and the importance of working capital
Module 2: Forecasting Techniques for Budgeting
- Determine the purpose and objective of the forecast
- Statistical analytical tools
- Quantitative analysis and forecasting
- Forecasting techniques
- Agency problems in forecasting- solutions
- Causal analysis models – regression analysis
- Using Excel ® to analyse historical data
Module 3: Budgets, Costs and Budgetary Control
- Why do we budget? – the purposes of budgeting
- Planning and control
- Putting the budget together
- Cost behaviour and classification
- Cost / volume /profit (CVP) and ‘what-if’ analysis
- Standard costing
- Flexed budgets
- Variance analysis and the reasons for variances
Module 4: Activity Based Costing & Activity Based Budgeting
- Activity based costing (ABC)
- Refinement of the costing system
- ABC and cost management
- The cost hierarchy and cost drivers
- Advantages and disadvantages of ABC systems
- From traditional budgeting to activity based budgeting (ABB)
- Time-based ABC for services organisations
- Motivation and the behavioural aspect of budgeting
Module 5: Performance Management and Beyond Budgeting
- Broadening performance measurement systems
- The Drive toward Shareholder Value (EVA®)
- Beyond budgeting: integrating financial and non-financial issues
- Introducing the Balanced Scorecard and the key perspective
Customized Training
This training can be tailored to your institution needs and delivered at a location of your choice upon request.
Requirements
Participants need to be proficient in English.
Training Fee
The fee covers tuition, training materials, refreshments, lunch, and study visits. Participants are responsible for their own travel, visa, insurance, and personal expenses.
Certification
A certificate from Ideal Workplace Solutions is awarded upon successful completion.
Accommodation
Accommodation can be arranged upon request. Contact via email for reservations.
Payment
Payment should be made before the training starts, with proof of payment sent to outreach@idealworkplacesolutions.org.
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