Modern Accounting

Charles Vickers

To offer participants the opportunity to explore advanced management accounting techniques that can deliver benefits to their organisation. Pressure to survive in business has resulted in new ways of doing things and the finance function is no exception. This workshop in modern accounting practice will help participants to develop their ideas on how they see the role of accounting developing in their organisations.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course will benefit those financial managers and accountants whose experience has placed them in positions where they are expected to participate in the development of accounting practice within their organisations.

COURSE PROFILE

Activity based thinking

- Highlighting the importance of costing activities rather than merely capturing costs

Advanced costing techniques

- Life cycle and target costing

- Theory of constraints

- Back-flush accounting

Risk management strategies
Continuous improvement and feedback

- Balanced Scorecard

- European Quality Foundation Model

- Benchmarking

Modern reporting techniques

- Dashboard

- KPI

SKILLS ATTAINED

At the end of the course delegates will be able to:

Evaluate advanced costing techniques
Identify and managing risk
Identify costing activities
Assess the cost of quality
Use non-financial measures to improve financial performance

COURSE DATES

COURSE REF: F09
Jun 25 '12 - Jun 29 '12
Sep 17 '12 - Sep 21 '12
£3,250.00

TESTIMONIALS

"'I have previously attended other courses in similar institutions and I can confidently say that LMC has distinctively surpassed the others: well selected tutors and a professional yet friendly atmosphere.'"
Afzal Chaudheri, General Manager, Packash Enterprises India