Course Description
	
INTRODUCTION
	
This Budgeting, Planning & Management Reporting training course provides participants with key cost awareness and budgetary skills, which are essential for managing and controlling resources in times of increasing global competition where the budgets are inextricably linked with both the achievement of strategic objectives as well as with evaluation of future and initiatives.
	
Budgeting lies at the heart of business management, yet businesses often encounter planning and financial difficulties as a result of either inadequate planning, lack of understanding of the business, or errors within the compilation of the budgets. Ineffective management reports heighten the challenge in collating inputs to the budget and use of budgeted information.
	
In addressing these issues, this training course is relevant for those professionals & analysts facing the difficult challenge of improving performance while reducing costs of those processes for which there are accountable.
		
Objectives
	
By the end of this Budgeting, Planning& Management Reporting training course, you will be able to:
	
Link budgeting and costing with strategy execution
	
Understand the critical factors which have an impact on business processes
	
Discuss about modern system of cost analysis for budgeting purposes
	
Master the budgeting and financial skills required for better decision-making
	
Explore the best practices required to manage the multiple organizational performances
		
Course Outline
	
Day 1
	
Planning Strategy and Corporate Governance
	
What are planning strategies?
	
Strategy analysis, choice & implementation
	
The role of strategy maps in defining the business
	
Effective and less effective management reporting practice
	
The agency problem and corporate governance
	
Planning requirements and the importance of working capital
	
Day 2
	
Forecasting Techniques for Budgeting
	
Determine the purpose and objective of the forecast
	
Statistical analytical tools
	
Quantitative analysis and forecasting
	
Forecasting techniques
	
Agency problems in forecasting- solutions
	
Causal analysis models – regression analysis
	
Using Excel ® to analyze historical data
	
Day 3
	
Budgets, Costs and Budgetary Control
	
Why do we budget? – the purposes of budgeting
	
Planning and control
	
Putting the budget together
	
Cost behavior and classification
	
Cost / volume /profit (CVP) and ‘what-if’ analysis
	
Standard costing
	
Flexed budgets
	
Variance analysis and the reasons for variances
	
Day 4
	
Activity Based Costing & Activity Based Budgeting
	
Activity based costing (ABC)
	
Refinement of the costing system
	
ABC and cost management
	
The cost hierarchy and cost drivers
	
Advantages and disadvantages of ABC systems
	
From traditional budgeting to activity based budgeting (ABB)
	
Time-based ABC for services organizations
	
Motivation and the behavioral aspect of budgeting
	
Day 5
	
Performance Management and Beyond Budgeting 
	
Broadening performance measurement systems
	
The Drive toward Shareholder Value (EVA®)
	
Beyond budgeting: integrating financial and non-financial issues
	
Introducing the Balanced Scorecard and the key perspective