DAY 1
Introduction: The Relevance of Budgeting and Cost Management within Strategy Execution
- The Link between Strategy, Planning, Budgeting and Cost Management
- Why Budgeting and Costing are so important to manage your company?
- Towards a Cross-functional Process-view of the Organization
- Financial vs. Managerial Accounting (where you get information for decision-making)
- Understand your Processes: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Aspects
- Identify and Discuss the Key issues in terms of Budget / Costing for your own Organization
- Discussion
DAY 2
The Budgeting Framework and its Role within the Management Process
- The Role of Budgeting within Management Accounting
- The Value of Budgeting in your Company
- Behavioral implications of Budgeting
- Key Concepts and Terminology
- Advantages and Disadvantages: Critical issues to be Discussed
- Overview on the Financial Statements - Balance sheet, Income statement and Cash-Flow
- Case Discussion and Examples
DAY 3
Cost Management for Budgeting 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: Inventory Evaluation and Control
- Case Study and Discussions
DAY 4
Case Study Day - Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-control
- Under-costing and Over-costing: the Consequences for Profitability
- How to refine a Costing System?
- Indirect vs. Direct costs: Traditional Cost Allocations Systems vs. Activity-Based Costing
- Cost Drivers: linking resources, activities and management
- Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) and Management (ABM)
- Case Study Analysis
- Examples and Videos
DAY 5
Broadening the Performance Measurement Systems
- Shortcomings of Traditional Approaches to Budgeting and Performance Measurement
- Need to Linking Financial to Operational Issues
- Recent Best Practices: the Balanced Scorecard and Six-sigma
- Financial Perspective and Customer Perspective
- Internal Business Process Perspective and Learning & Growth perspective
- Developing and Adapting the Scorecard
- Video, Case Study Illustration and Discussion