Introduction

All business decision making involves analysing situations and assessing alternatives, risks and benefits. This programme offers an opportunity to acquire and then deploy new skills and ideas to achieve improved financial operations and strategies. The knowledge acquired will enhance the budget process and control processes through a variety of strategies and techniques that will provide new insights to how financial performance can be enhanced.  In this programme you will participate in many aspects of modern thinking:

• Budgets and Models as a key element of management and financial strategy
• The analysis of opportunities, risks and rewards in the context of Capital Projects
• Controlling costs by analysis, modelling, KPI’s and review of the cost drivers
• Develop a broader view in the context of the enterprise’s objectives and constraints

Objectives

• Successfully build an integrated planning, budgeting and reporting process
• Understand costs behaviour more accurately
• Deliver more timely and useful information to decision-makers
• Understand capital budgeting
• Identify & manage key financial indicators for the business
• Be able to use specific cost analysis and performance measurement techniques
• Be able to understand and implement the Balanced Scorecards
• Be able to interpret the financial impact of strategic directions
• Understand the problems of overheads allocation and how Activity-Based Analysis may aid decision-making and pricing strategies
• Select the performance measurement systems that work
• Think proactively beyond budgeting

Training Methodology

Facilitated by experienced instructor, this course will be conducted as a highly interactive work session, encouraging participants to share their own experiences and apply the programme material to real-life situations. Case studies from different industries will be investigated. Each delegate will receive an extensive reference manual, as well as case studies, while worked out solutions will be handed out to the delegates on conclusion of group discussions.

To ensure the concepts introduced during the course are understood, they will be reinforced through a mix of learning methods, including lecture style presentation, open discussion, case studies, simulations and group work.

Who Should Attend?

• Those in charge for designing and managing a budgetary 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, costing and performance measurement

Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total
tuition hours:-
• 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
• 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
• 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
• 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions

Certificates

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.

Schedule

  08:30 – 10:15 First Session

 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Second Session

 12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Third Session

 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

Fees

 The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: