Course Schedule
Classroom Sessions:
| Date | Venue | Fees | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 - 29 Dec 2023 | Paris - France | $11,900 | |
| 16 - 27 Dec 2024 | Paris - France | $11,900 |
Course Description
MODULES
This training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Budgeting For Performance Management
MODULE II - Financial Analysis, Planning & Control
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Course Outline
Module 1: Budgeting For Performance Management
DAY 1
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
DAY 2
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
DAY 3
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
DAY 4
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
DAY 5
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 2: Financial Analysis, Planning & Control
DAY 6
The Challenge of Financial Economic Decision-Making
- The Practice of Financial / Economic Analysis
- The Value-creating Company
- Corporate Value and Shareholder Value
- A Dynamic Perspective of Business
- The Agency Problem and Corporate Governance
- What information and data to use?
- The Nature of Financial Statements
- The Context of Financial Analysis and Decision-making
DAY 7
Assessment of Business Performance
- Ratio Analysis and Business Performance
- Management’s Point of View
- Owners’ Point of View
- Lenders’ Point of View
- Ratios as a System – Pyramids of Ratios
- Integration of Financial Performance Analysis
- Economic Value Added (EVA)
- Predicting Financial Distress and Z-score Model
DAY 8
Analysis of Investment Decisions
- Applying Time-adjusted Measures
- Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR)
- Strategic Perspective
- EVA and NPV
- Refinements of Investment Analysis
- Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC)
- Sensitivity Analysis, Scenario Analysis, Simulation, and NPV Break-even
- Dealing with Risk and Changing Circumstances
DAY 9
Projection of Financial Requirements
- Interrelationship of Financial Projections
- Operating Budgets
- Standard Costing and Variance Analysis
- Cash Forecasts and Cash Budgets
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Dynamics and Growth of the Business System
- Operating Leverage
- Financial Growth Plans
- Financial Modelling
DAY 10
Valuation and Business Performance
- Managing for Shareholder Value
- Shareholder Value Creation in Perspective
- Evolution of Value-based Methodologies
- Creating Value in Restructuring and Combinations
- Financial Strategy in Acquisitions
- Business Valuation
- Business Restructuring and Reorganisations
- Management Buy Outs (MBOs) and Management Buy Ins (MBIs)
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