An Intensive 10-day Training Course
Effective Budgeting, Planning & Control
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MODULES
This PetroKnowledge training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management
MODULE II - Corporate Financial Planning, Budgeting & Control
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-week training course.
Daily Agenda
Module 1: Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management
Day One: Introduction: The Relevance of Budgeting and Cost Management within Strategy Execution
- The Link between Strategy, Planning, Budgeting and Cost Management
- Why Budgeting and Costing are so important to manage your company?
- Financial & Management Accounting
- Preparing Financial Statements & Cost Evaluation
- Understand your Processes: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Aspects
- Identify and Discuss the Key issues in terms of Budget / Costing for your own Organization
Day Two: The Budgeting Framework and its Role within the Management Process
- The Role & Types of Budgets within Management Accounting
- The Budget Process
- Preparing the Master Budget & Departmental Budgets
- Preparing a Project/CAPEX Budget
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Budgets & the Budget Process: The Critical issues for Success
- Budgetary Control
Day Three: Cost Management for Budgeting Purposes
- Cost Classification, Concepts and Terminology
- Fixed vs. Variable Costs: The Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Model
- Contribution Margin Analysis
- Estimating / Forecasting Costs
- Calculating, Evaluating & Managing the Cost of:
- Purchases
- Manufacture
- Inventory (IAS 2)
- Working Capital
- Improving Efficiency to Reduce Costs
Day Four: Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-control
- Under-costing and Over-costing: The Consequences for Profitability
- How to refine a Costing System?
- Indirect vs. Direct costs: Traditional Cost Allocations Systems vs. Activity-Based Costing
- Cost Drivers: Linking Resources, Activities and Management
- Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) and Management (ABM)
Day Five: Broadening the Performance Measurement Systems
- Shortcomings of Traditional Approaches to Budgeting and Performance Measurement
- Recent Best Practices: the Balanced Scorecard and Six-sigma
- Financial Perspective and Customer Perspective
- Internal Business Process Perspective and Learning & Growth Perspective
- Developing and Adapting the Scorecard
- Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line: Profit, People & Planet
Module 2: Corporate Financial Planning, Budgeting & Control
Day Six: Corporate Financial Planning
- Strategic Planning
- The Objective of the Firm – Meeting Shareholder & Stakeholder Objectives
- Agency Theory – The Relationship between Shareholders & Management
- Creative Accounting and the Case of Enron
- Financial Management & Financial Planning – The Scope, Role & Responsibilities of Financial Management
- Preparing a Financial Plan – The Master Budget
- Forecasting Future Cash-flows and Financial Modelling
- Time Series Analysis, Correlation & Regression
Day Seven: Financing the Plan
- Sources of Finance – Long Term & Short Term
- Evaluation of the Types of Finance - Equity vs. Debt Finance
- Hybrid Finance & Financial Engineering
- The Dividend Decision
- The Cost of Capital and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
- Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
- Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Capital Rationing & Payback
Day Eight: Preparing & Managing Budgets to Support the Financial Plans
- Definition of Budgets, the Budgetary Process and Budgetary Control
- Types of Budgets-Fixed, Flexible, Incremental and Zero Based
- The Purpose / Benefits & Problems / Limitations of Budgets
- Setting / Implementing Effective Budgets - Eliminating the Problems
- Responsibility Accounting and Absorption Costing
- Activity-Based Budgeting / Costing (ABB, ABC)
- Variance Analysis, Cost Behaviour, Break Even Analysis & Sensitivity / What If Analysis
- What-If Analysis combined with Du-Pont Analysis
Day Nine: Managing and Controlling Cash Flow to Support the Financial Plan
- Cash vs. Profit & The Cash Conversion Cycle
- Calculating and Managing the Cash flow Cycle
- Cash Flow Ratios
- Working Capital
- The Cost of Maintaining Working Capital
- Maintaining the Optimum Level of Working Capital
- Working Investment Ratios
- Preparing a Monthly Cash Flow Forecast
Day Ten: Managing Financial Risk
- Risk Management & Types of Risk
- Identifying Risk – SWOT Analysis
- The Major Quantitative & Qualitative Risks Facing Companies
- Establishing a Risk Management Strategy
- Financial Risk Management & Hedging Techniques
- Managing Exchange Rate & Interest Rate Risk
- Derivatives-Forwards, Futures, Options & Swaps
- Risk Management Glossary of Terms
Certificate
- On successful completion of this Training Course / Online Training Course, a PetroKnowledge Certificate / E-Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
