Budget Preparation Skills is a comprehensive training seminar that focuses on the essential skills required to understand the processes of costing and budgeting within organizations.
This training seminar is designed to address all the relevant issues concerning cost analysis, budget preparation, and performance measurement. This Budget Preparation Skills training seminar is a must for all professionals who need to master their budgeting skills by learning how costs behave so that realistic business plans can be produced.
Learn costing and budgeting terminology used in business
Understand the importance of a well-defined costing and budgeting process
Determine the full costs of outputs for the goods and services provided
Master traditional techniques and recent best practices
Link finance and operation for budgeting purposes and strategy execution
Learn how to build a comprehensive performance measurement system
The staff person who will be responsible for entering data into the budget system or training others how to enter information
Those who want to gain control of the firm's financial standing and obtain a firm grasp on the numbers side of their job
Financial professionals, R&D professionals, sales/marketing professionals, general accounting professionals, business unit professionals
Anyone who wants to understand the basics of budgeting and costing
The Role of Budgeting within Management Accounting
Linking Costing and Budgeting to Strategy and Performance Measurement
The Process of Value Creation: Implications for Budgeting
What is a budget and why costing is fundamental?
Budgets - The Financial Expression of the Operating Plan
Linking Financial and Operational Issues
Behavioral Implications of Budgeting
Case Discussion and Examples
Costing for Budgeting: Why?
Cost Terms and Purposes
Fixed and Variable Costs
Cost, Volume, Profit (CVP) Relationships
The Key Concept of Contribution Margin
Direct and Indirect Cost – The Allocation Problem
Traditional Methods vs. Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
Case Discussion and Examples
Elements of the Budgeting Framework
Key Concepts and Terminology
Advantages and Disadvantages - critical issues to be discussed
Overview of the Financial Statements
Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and the Statement of Cash Flows
Introducing Cost Analysis for Decision-making
The Importance of Understanding Full Costs
Case Discussion and Examples
Budgeting for Management Control Purposes
Explain Why Standard Costs are used in Variance Analysis
Describe the difference between a Fixed Budget and a Flexed Budget
Compute Flexed Budget Variances and Sales Volume Variances
How to interpret variance analysis?
Integrate continuous improvement into Variance Analysis
Is budgeting enough?
Case Discussion and Examples
Shortcomings of Traditional approaches to Budgeting and Measurement
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