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Effective Budgeting & Operational Cost Control for Managers
Introduction
This course can be customised to client requirements.
For fees and relevant details please contact Customer support customersupport@lmcuk.com or call
+44 207 724 6007
Now, more than ever, organisations need to ensure they are financially sustainable. An excellent budgeting process is a crucial tool to achieve this.
This course takes delegates through the whole budgeting process, from strategic planning, through target-setting and budget negotiation, to budget monitoring and variance analysis. We examine how key performance indicators can be used to tighten up behaviour within the organisation. In particular, we explore best techniques for the control of operational costs, and the achievement of radical cost savings where necessary.
This course is delivered as Online Training. Learn more about our approach.
Who should attend
This course is designed for managers, supervisors and team leaders, who need to be effective performers in their organisation’s budgeting and operational cost control process. It is beneficial to those who have recently been given a new budget responsibility or have recently been tasked to control costs within their organisation. No previous financial knowledge is required.
5 days
Online Course | £2500
Grounding your budget in your strategy
- Developing your strategic plan: gathering and analysing data
- Creating an operating plan: managing staff numbers and other resources in the light of your strategy
- Establishing a one-year budget cycle consistent with strategy
Constructing budgets
- The difference between capital budgets and operational budgets
- Planning revenues: Why budgets overstate revenue and bringing realism in revenue estimates.
- Planning costs: variable and fixed costs; absorbing fixed costs
Communicating your budget effectively
- Negotiating the annual budget process: top-down targets v realism
- Choosing floor targets, stretch targets, and expected results: selecting targets to influence staff behaviour
- Summarising budget information effectively; identifying what is and is not controllable by a manager
Effective target setting, measurement and monitoring
- Choosing appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
- Benchmarking and balanced scorecards
- Variance analysis; fixed versus flexed budgets
Achieving operational cost savings
- Reducing cost prices: assertive approaches to purchasing
- Increasing efficiency: doing more with less resource
- Zero-based budgeting: a radical approach
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Negotiate and participate in the annual budget process
- Work with up-to-date techniques for achieving cost savings and cost control
- Understand how budget models are constructed and shared
- Take part in the setting of realistic targets and KPIs
- Engage with actual-budget comparisons and variances
- Understand how the best budgets are rooted in a sound strategic and operational plan
- Budgeting
- Budgeting and Forecasting
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