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AAU 102 - Cost Management & Budgeting Techniques
| Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAU 102 | 14 October 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 09 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 13 January 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 10 March 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 05 May 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 30 June 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 25 August 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 20 October 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
| AAU 102 | 15 December 2025 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
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Course Description
This course will teach the participants how to create a more meaningful budget, and how to use this budget to make more effective important financial decisions. Throughout this course, participants will identify effective methods for translating their organization’s strategic initiatives into measurable financial targets. Best practices for cost estimating, budgeting, and variance tracking are explored using the latest techniques
Course Objectives
- Learning how to create positive budgets
- Understanding how to keep budget relevant to organization’s needs
- Being able to strategically link budget to management action and decisions
- Being familiar with the major weaknesses of traditional budgeting techniques
- Creating an adaptive performance measurement framework
- Using alternative techniques to traditional budgeting
Who Should Attend?
- Management Accountants
- Business Accountants
- Finance Managers
- Business Analysts
- Team leaders
- Anyone interested and wanted to develop his performance in cost management and budgeting techniques
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Introduction to cost management and budgeting
- Best practice for cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
- Cost management plans
- Creating a cost baseline
Day 2
- Organizational cost budgeting dependencies
- Control thresholds
- Earned value assumptions
- Contracting basics
Day 3
- Overview of the control costs process
- Inputs to the control costs process
- Tools and techniques for the control costs process
- Outputs from the control costs process
- Procurement planning
- Reporting formats
Day 4
- Techniques for preparing budgets and forecasts
- Strategically linking budgets to management action
- Non-financial budgets
- Best practice with respect to resource types and cost accrual methods
- Classifying costs correctly
Day 5
- Microsoft Project's resource sheet
- Developing cost estimating models in Microsoft Project
- Custom views and tables in Microsoft Project
- Predict cost overruns requiring corrective action
