Budgeting, Planning
& Management Reporting

This Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting online 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.

This GLOMACS Budgeting, Planning& Management Reporting online training course enables participants to:

• Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution
• Understand the critical factors which have an impact on business processes
• Discuss about modern system of cost analysis for budgeting purposes
• Master the budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making
• Identify sources of financial and operational data to support the budgeting process
• Explore the best practices required to manage the multiple organizational performances

By the end of this Budgeting, Planning& Management Reporting online training course, you will be able to:

• Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution
• Understand the critical factors which have an impact on business processes
• Discuss about modern system of cost analysis for budgeting purposes
• Master the budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making
• Explore the best practices required to manage the multiple organizational performances

This online training course will utilize a variety of proven online learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. The training course is conducted Online via an Advanced Virtual Learning Platform in the comfort of any location of your choice.

• Cost and budgeting awareness will be enhanced
• Higher chances to design or select a budgetary system that works
• Broadened knowledge of performance management techniques
• Better attitude to link cost and budgeting to strategy and performance measurement
• Deeper understanding of cause and effect relationship for budgeting purposes
• Better awareness of non-financial implications of budgeting and cost management

• Delegates will understand the budgeting methods most useful to them
• They will understand how to construct a relevant and efficient budget
• They will learn to evaluate the usefulness of costing techniques in accurately calculating and ensuring profitability
• They will reinforce and expand their knowledge by linking budgeting to strategy and performance measurement
• They will broaden their understanding by linking financial and operational issues

This GLOMACS Budgeting, Planning& Management Reporting training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will especially benefit:

• 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 Professional, Professional R&D, Sales/Marketing Professional, General Accounting Professional, Business Unit Professional
• Anyone who wants to refine and advance the budgeting and costing knowledge

DAY 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

DAY 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

DAY 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

DAY 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

DAY 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

In Association With

Oxford Management Centre

A GLOMACS - Oxford Management Centre collaboration aimed at providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clients.

PetroKnowledge

Our collaboration with Petroknowledge aims to provide the best training services and benefits for our valued clients

The Energy Training Centre

Our collaboration with Energy Training Centre aims to provide the best training services and benefits for our valued clients

© 2023. Material published by GLOMACS shown here is copyrighted.
All rights reserved. Any unauthorized copying, distribution, use, dissemination, downloading, storing (in any medium), transmission, reproduction or reliance in whole or any part of this course outline is prohibited and will constitute an infringement of copyright.

P.O. Box 74653, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tel : +971 - 04 - 425 0700, Fax : +971 (04) 425 0701, Email : info@glomacs.com