Effective Budgeting & Operational Cost Control

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Effective Budgeting & Operational Cost Control

Today, the human mind is often absorbed in so much data, that it has difficulty processing the multitude of facts and relationships simultaneously and sometimes forgets important elements. Thus, as plans become more and more intricate, they should be documented in writing and include qualitative narratives of goals, objectives, and means of accomplishing the objectives.

This course will allow the participant to explore and share with other participants new thoughts in the planning, control, and budgeting cycle, resulting in a renewed energy in returning to the workplace and implementing a more focused budgeting process, which communicates useful and timely information to management.


The course will provide a framework for each topic covered, and then will make extensive use of exercises and case studies.

  • Live group instruction
  • Detailed practical examples
  • Use of case studies and real world examples
  • Interactive participation

All participants receive a comprehensive binder containing copies of the presentation slides, handouts and other course materials.

  • Acquire best practices in budgeting
  • Understand the strategic role of cost concepts
  • Explain the costs concepts to the use of cost information for management control
  • Describe the role of budgets in the management process
  • Discuss the importance of strategy and its role in the master budget
  • Prepare a master budget and explain the interrelationships among its supporting schedule
  • Understand zero-base, activitybased, and kaizen approaches to budgeting
  • Explain the essence of control systems
  • Develop flexible budgets for evaluating short-term financial performance
  • Identify different cost control measures
  • Measure and evaluate performance
  • Leverage emerging technologies for delivering operational excellence

Day One: Introduction: Building a Common Financial Language

  • The key role of budgeting and cost control in contemporary organizations
  • The 21st century business imperative: delivering value added (but to whom?)
  • Financial vs. Managerial accounting (for decision making)
  • Understand your processes: integrating financial and non-financial aspects
  • The budgeting process
  • Examples & Discussion

Day Two: The Budgeting Process

  • The key features of budgeting
  • Advantages and concerns with budgeting
  • Accountability and centers of responsibility
  • Zero-based budgeting
  • Budgeting and cost control
  • Examples & Discussion

Day Three: Cost Analysis

  • Different costs for different purposes
  • Fixed vs. Variable costs
  • The Cost-Volume-Profit analysis model
  • Contribution Margin analysis
  • Examples & Discussion

Day Four: Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-Control

  • Under-costing and over-costing: the consequences for profitability
  • Indirect (OH) vs. Direct costs:
  • Traditional Cost Allocations systems vs. Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
  • Linking resources, activities and management
  • Variance analysis
  • Video, Case Study and Examples

Day Five: Beyond the Budgets: Balanced scorecards and Six-sigma

  • Broadening performance measurement systems
  • Beyond budgeting: integrating financial and non-financial issues
  • Introducing the Balanced Scorecard
  • Introducing the Strategy maps
  • Introducing Six-sigma
  • Video, Case Study and examples
  • Middle Management
  • Operations
  • Middle and Back Office
  • Financial and Product Control
  • Finance Business Partners
  • Planning and Budgeting
  • Management, Statutory and Regulatory Reporting
  • Auditors and Internal Control
  • Risk and Compliance Regulators
  • Accountants and Consultants
  • Graduate and Management Trainees



Sub Code FA036
Start Date Sun,Mar,20,2022
End Date Thu,Mar,24,2022
Duration 5 Days
Fee(US$) 3250
Location Riyadh
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