Cost Control & Budgeting

2 days’ workshop

Introduction:

Is your organization budget still valid & reliable? This practical budgeting course will assist you to revisit the way budgeting is being done and ways to improve and create values for your organization. Many budgeting case studies will be used to highlight the importance of using your financial statement to achieve your budget target. In order to reduce cost effectively, you need to have the heart of an entrepreneur. By creating value for your organization, you will be amazed at the speed of career advancement. 

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Revisit your organization vision & mission to be relevant in today’s competitive environment.

  • Devise ways to achieve your budget targets

  • Learnt from successful budgeting using beyond budgeting approach 

  • Plan how to achieve optimum profitability under budget constraints

  • Consider the basis for deciding whether to proceed or reject the project proposal 

  • Managing Materials, Labour & overheads Costs 

  • Strategies on Turnaround the Company 

  • Strategies to Improve Debt Collection & Cash Flow

  • Formulating the Cost Reduction Strategies for Your Organization Costs

  • Understanding the tracking Cost Control Using Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

METHODOLOGY
Case Study & Group Discussion. Real-current financial issues & cases will be analysed and scenario solutions will be discussed within the workshop.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Accountants, CFO, Business Managers, Finance Managers, Supervisors, Managers and All Professionals Who Are Interested in Managing Budgeting & Cost control     

Special Feature: NOTE: Please bring laptop along

Course outline

Day 1

Module 1: Converting Business Plan & Key Performance Indicators into Budgets

  • CEO Vision & Mission

  • KPI (Dept & Individual)

Module 2: Profit Planning and Activity-Based Budgeting (Exercise)

  • Operational Budget 

  • Financial Budget

Module 3: Budgets, Behaviour and beyond Budgeting (case study)

  • Budget Games

  • Beyond Budgeting

  • Successful budgeting 

Module 4: Project Based Budgets (Case Study)

  • Calculation of operating cash flow

  • Calculation of Project payback period, profitability index, IRR & NPV of the project? 

  • Basis for decision on proceeding or rejecting the project proposal 


Day 2

Module 5: Managing Material Costs

  • Procurement 

  • Inventory 

  • Design errors 

  • Technical errors 

  • Reject output 

Module 6: Managing Labor Costs

  • Inefficient Work Processes 

  • Absenteeism 

  • Staff quality 

  • Manpower management 

  • Staff turnover 

  • Complex process 

Module 7: Managing Overhead Costs

  • Assets Management 

  • Customers 

  • Financial resources 

  • Human resources 

  • Expenditures 

Module 8: Case Study (Turn-around the Company)

  • Asset conversion 

  • Collection 

  • Cost reduction 

  • Revenues 

  • Purchasing policy 

Module 9: Tracking Cost Control Using Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

  • Identify Cost control matrix

  • Design performance standard for cost control

  • Weightage 

  • Linking cost control to Motivation

Cost Reduction and Profit Improvement Strategies

Project Finance for Non-Finance (eg. Engineers)

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