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Course Schedule
Classroom Sessions:
DateVenueFees
20 - 24 Jan 2025 Istanbul - Turkey $5,950
02 - 06 Jun 2025 Barcelona - Spain $5,950
21 - 25 Jul 2025 London - UK $5,950
25 - 29 Aug 2025 Paris - France $5,950
20 - 24 Oct 2025 Dubai - UAE $5,950
10 - 14 Nov 2025 Paris - France $5,950
29 Dec 2025 - 02 Jan 2026 London - UK $5,950
Online Sessions:

29 Dec 2025 - 02 Jan 2026 Online $3,950
Course Description

INTRODUCTION

This Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management 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 plans and initiatives.

Budgeting and cost analysis are crucial elements for the management of contemporary organizations. Nowadays, if companies want to stay competitive, they are urged to link their strategies with accurate systems of resource allocation and performance measurement. Along this line, budgeting, as well as tracking, controlling & reducing cost represent essential activities to be performed and monitored by organizations as they implement their key processes, activities and operations. 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.

In particular, this GLOMACS Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management 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

Objectives

By the end of this Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course, you will be able to:

  • Understand Costing and Budgeting terminology used in business
  • Implement a well-defined costing and budgeting process
  • Determine full costs of outputs for the goods and services provided
  • Master traditional techniques and recent best practices on budgeting / cost management
  • Link finance and operation for budgeting purposes and strategy execution
  • Learn how to build a comprehensive performance measurement system

Training Methodology

This Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course will be conducted along workshop principles with formal lectures, case studies and interactive worked examples. Relevant case studies will be provided to illustrate the application of each tool in an operations environment. Each learning point will be re-enforced with practical exercises.

Organisational Impact

  • 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

Personal Impact

  • 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

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly 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
Course Outline

Day 1

Introduction: The Relevance of Budgeting and Cost Management within Strategy Execution

  • The Link between Strategic Planning, Accounting, Budgeting and Cost Management
  • Why Budgeting and Costing are so important to your Company?
  • Financial & Management Accounting
  • Preparing Financial Statements & Cost Evaluation
  • Understand your Processes: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Aspects
  • Identify and Discuss the Key issues in terms of Budget / Costing for your own Organization

Day 2

The Budgeting Framework and its Role within the Management Process  

  • The Role & Types of Budgets within Management Accounting
  • The Budget Process
  • Preparing the Master Budget & Departmental Budgets
  • Preparing a Project/CAPEX Budget
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Budgets & the Budget Process: The Critical issues for Success
  • Budgetary Control

Day 3

Cost Management for Budgeting Purposes

  • Cost Classification, Concepts and Terminology
  • Fixed vs. Variable Costs: The Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Model
  • Contribution Margin Analysis
  • Estimating / Forecasting Costs
  • Calculating, Evaluating & Managing the Cost of:
    • Purchases
    • Manufacture
    • Inventory (IAS 2)
    • Working Capital
  • Improving Efficiency to Reduce Costs

Day 4

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)

Day 5

Broadening the Performance Measurement Systems

  • Shortcomings of Traditional Approaches to Budgeting and Performance Measurement
  • 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
  • Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line: Profit, People & Planet
Certificates
  • On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
  • Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
Providers and Associations

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GLOMACS is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org

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