Introduction
- 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
The Budgeting Framework and Its Role within the Management Process
- The role of budgeting within management accounting
- The value of budgeting in your company
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Balance sheet, Income statement and cash-flow
Cost Management for Budgeting Purposes
- Cost concepts and terminology
- Different costs for different purposes
- Fixed Vs Variable costs
- The Cost-Volume-Profit analysis model
- Manufacturing vs. non-manufacturing costs
- Period Vs. Product costs
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
- Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) and Management (ABM)
Broadening the Performance Measurement Systems
- Shortcomings of traditional approaches to budgeting and performance measurement
- Balanced Scorecard and Six-sigma
- Financial perspective
- Customer perspective
- Developing and adapting the scorecard