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| Budgeting and Financial Management: Controlling Financial Performance |
| Course Status: | Released |
| Course Language: | English |
| Course Duration: | 4 Hours |
| Deployment Options: | Online, Interactive CDs, Network, Downloads, Intranet |
| Audience |
| Managers, prospective managers, and any other employees seeking advanced competency in the area of budgeting and financial planning |
| Prerequisites |
| An understanding of the principles of financial planning |
| Course Aim |
| To acquaint the learner with the role of budgetary performance monitoring as an aid to strategy implementation |
| Learning Objectives |
| Explain how a budgetary control system can help to monitor your company's performance. Explain how a responsibility accounting system works. Distinguish between fixed and flexible budgets. Prepare alternative flexible budget forecasts for the cost of production in your company. Prepare a flexible production budget. Prepare a performance report for your company. Calculate the variances between actual and budgeted figures. |
| Topics Covered |
| Performance monitoring and control - Control systems - Control and responsibility accounting - Methods of control Flexible budgeting - Fixed vs flexible budgeting - Preparing a flexible production budget forecast - Hands-on: Preparing a flexible production budget Using variances in your budgets - Using variances in a fixed budget - Using variances in a flexible budget Performance reports and variances - Creating a performance report - Hands-on: Using variances |