| Date | Venue | Fees | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul - 07 Aug 2026 | London - UK | $ 11,900 | |
| 12 - 23 Oct 2026 | Rome - Italy | $ 11,900 | |
| 21 Dec - 01 Jan 2027 | Paris - France | $ 11,900 | |
| 15 - 26 Mar 2027 | London - UK | $ 11,900 | |
| 26 Jul - 06 Aug 2027 | London - UK | $ 11,900 | |
| 11 - 22 Oct 2027 | Rome - Italy | $ 11,900 | |
| 20 - 31 Dec 2027 | Paris - France | $ 11,900 |
Modules
This training course is split into the following modules:
Module I - Budgeting For Performance Management
Module II - Certificate in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Module I: Budgeting For Performance Management
Budgeting and Business Performance Management
- Creating value for key organisational stakeholders
- Business Performance Management (BPM) frameworks
- The fundamentals of competitive strategy
- The vital role of budgeting and cost management in BPM
- Principles of financial and management accounting
- Key financial measures of value creation
- Using strategy maps to integrate non-financial measures
Cost Planning and Cost Management
- Defining and understanding cost behaviour
- The role of costing in performance management
- Traditional costing: absorption costing
- Traditional costing: marginal costing and break-even analysis
- Traditional costing: standard costing control frameworks
- Developments in costing: Target and Kaizen costing
- Developments in costing: Activity Based Costing (ABC)
- A strategic approach to cost management and reduction
Steps and Techniques in Budget Preparation
- Forecasting techniques for budgeting
- Business Intelligence and budgeting
- Diagnostic and predictive analytics for budgeting
- Statistical tools and techniques in sales forecasting
- Statistical tools and techniques for cost forecasting
- Steps in the budgeting process
- Budgeting and managing capital expenditure (CapEx)
- Cash flow forecasting and budgeting
- Styles and approaches to budgeting
- Human and behavioural aspects of budgeting
Using Budgets to Monitor and Manage Performance
- Principles of Responsibility Accounting
- Variance analysis and performance management
- Standard costing and cost management
- Using data analytics to find the root cause of variances
- Data visualisation techniques for financial reports
- Designing budget reports
- Dashboards and their use in performance management
- Designing tactical dashboards for budget management
Beyond Budgeting to Adaptive Management
- Shortcomings of traditional approaches to budgeting
- Beyond Budgeting case study
- Moving towards decentralised performance management
- Replacing budgets with rolling forecasts
- Using key driver forecasts for risk management
- Using balanced scorecard to manage Key Performance Indicators
- Why traditional budgeting still has a key role to play
Module II: Certificate in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
The Role & Scope of IFRS
- Establishing the case for IFRS
- International accounting diversity
- IFRS & US GAAP
- The role & scope of IFRS & IAS including Sustainability Disclosure Requirements IFRS S1 & IFRS S2
- The IASB conceptual framework
- IFRS, accounting concepts & policies
The Presentation & Preparation of Financial Statements
- The annual reports & financial statements
- IAS 1 & IFRS18 Presentation & Disclosures in Financial Statements
- Preparing the income statement
- Preparing the statement of financial position
- IAS & statement of cashflow
- Notes & disclosures
Accounting for Cash Flow & Financial Instruments
- The importance of cash flow
- Preparing a statement of cash flows in accordance with IFRS 7
- Evaluating the cash flow
- What are financial instruments & derivatives?
- IFRS 7 financial instruments: Disclosures
- IFRS 9 financial instruments
Accounting for Assets
- Tangible & intangible assets
- IAS 16: Property, plant and equipment and Depletion, Depreciation & Amortisation (DD&A)
- IAS 36: Impairment of assets
- IFRS 13 fair value measurement
- IAS 38: Intangible assets
- IAS 2 inventories
Accounting for Strategic Alliances & Business Combinations
- Strategic alliances mergers & acquisitions
- Goodwill
- IFRS 3 business combinations
- IFRS 10: Consolidated financial statements
- IFRS 11: Joint arrangements
- IFRS 12: Disclosure of interests on other entities
- Upon 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 Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
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