Effective Budgeting and Cost Control
Planning and budgeting are must-have skills for all professionals, regardless of their function or managerial level. This course covers the concept of budgeting as a planning tool, a financial device, and a control mechanism. In addition, it provides the necessary application tools required to make long-term and short-term planning decisions.
PrerequisitesNone — open to managers at all levels
5 Days
2 Sessions
Starting from USD 1,500
Available Online
Course Methodology
This course focuses on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Defend the importance of linking an organization's budget with its strategic plan
- Demonstrate how the budget relates to the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement
- Prepare the key elements of an operating and capital budget and evaluate the different budgeting approaches used
- Apply cost control tools, analyze management variance reports, and take proper corrective action
- Calculate different capital budgeting evaluation techniques as included in a capital expenditure proposal
- Utilize cost-volume-profit analysis in making budgeting decisions
Target Audience
All managers, supervisors and analysts who prepare or use management budgets.
Target Competencies
- Interpreting financial statements
- Planning and budgeting
- Controlling costs
- Evaluating Capital budgets
- Applying cost-volume-profit analysis
- Utilizing breakeven analysis
Course Outline
- Planning and the Functions of Management
- The critical functions of management
- Budget as a planning tool
- Control: The missing link
- Roadmap to strategy
- Aligning the budget with the organization’s strategy
- Planning pitfalls
- The Key Financial Statements
- The accounting system
- The income statement
- The balance sheet
- Retained earnings
- The cash flow statement
- Budgeting: Process and Approaches
- The budget process
- Operating and capital budgets
- Different approaches to budgeting
- Incremental budgeting
- Zero-based budgeting
- Flexible budgeting
- Kaizen budgeting and continuous improvement
- Activity-based budgeting
- Rolling budgets and forecast
- Problems in budgeting
- Cost Control
- Budget as a control tool
- The control process
- Characteristics of an effective control system
- Responsibility centers
- Variance analysis
- Capital Expenditure Budgeting and Analysis
- Time value of money
- The discount rate: Using cost of capital
- Capital budgeting approaches
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Profitability Index (PI)
- Pay-Back Period (PBP)
- Sensitivity and risk analysis
- Cost Volume Profit Analysis (CVP)
- Defining fixed costs
- Defining variable costs
- Breakeven point in units
- Breakeven point in dollars
- Computing breakeven point in sales
- Sensitivity analysis: Changing assumptions
2026 Schedule & Fees
Course Fees Starting From
USD
1,500
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