Improving Management Performance Through Budgeting and Cost Control

Course

In Putney

£ 4,300 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Putney

Suitable for: This is a highly focussed course designed for senior managers with significant financial decision making and resource responsibilities as well as those managers with a need to significantly enhance their financial budgeting skills.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Putney (London)
The Point, 3rd Floor, 210 New Kings Road, SW6 4NZ

Start date

On request

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Course programme

Both finance and non-finance staff may be responsible for establishing and managing budgets. This course will help delegates to understand the full relevance of budgeting and how this can be effectively achieved by providing you with the right skills. It will focus on identifying factors that can impact on an organisation's performance; enable managers to plan for such factors, consider contingencies, and evaluate resource levels as an ongoing process.


Who should attend?

This is a highly focussed course designed for senior managers with significant financial decision making and resource responsibilities as well as those managers with a need to significantly enhance their financial budgeting skills.
Objectives

By the end of the course you will be able to:


  • Translate resource plans into financial budgets
  • Build and maintain a robust budgetary process
  • Interpret financial management information
  • Control and cut costs
  • Drive through sustainable improvements
Programme Outline
  • Why Organisations Fail
  • The Need for Planning
  • Putting Together the Management Plan
  • Driving Plan Performance Through Objectives and Targets
  • Translating Plans into Budgets for Implementation
  • Interpretation of Financial Management Information
  • Understanding Profit and Loss Accounts, Balance Sheets and Cash Flows
  • The power of Comparisons and Ratio Analysis
  • Interpretation of Accounts and How to Spot Attempts at Manipulation
  • Setting the Framework for Budgets and Managing the Budgeting Process
  • Commissioning Budgets and Use of Planning Assumptions
  • Testing Budget Bids for Realism and Negotiating Budgets
  • 10 Tips to Good Budgeting
  • Controlling and Cutting Costs
  • Zero and Incremental Budgeting

Improving Management Performance Through Budgeting and Cost Control

£ 4,300 + VAT