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Overview
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
- Cost control
- Capital budgeting
- Applying cost-volume-profit analysis
- Utilizing breakeven analysis
Note
This course is worth 25 NASBA CPEsCourse 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 advantages of budgeting
- The budget process
- Rolling budgets
- Direct and indirect costs
- The master budget
- Operating and capital budgets
- Approaches to budgeting:
- Incremental budgeting
- Zero-based budgeting
- Flexible budgeting
- Kaizen budgeting and continuous improvement
- Activity-based budgeting
- Tools of forecasting
- Characteristics of an adequate budget
- Problems in budgeting
- Cost Control
- Budget as a control tool
- The control process
- Characteristics of an effective control system
- Responsibility reporting
- Variance analysis:
- Identifying the components of variance
- Taking the corrective action
- Capital Expenditure Budgeting and Analysis
- Time value of money
- The discount rate: Using cost of capital
- Simple versus compound interest
- Identifying and analyzing cash flows
- Net Present Value (NPV)
- Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Profitability Index (PI)
- Pay-Back Period (PBP)
- Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
- Approval for Expenditure (AFE)
- 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
Schedule & Fees
Face-to-Face Courses
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