• The British Academy for Training and Development offers a comprehensive budgeting for performance management training course. This training course on budgeting for performance management stresses the fact that every organisation has an obligation to allocate scarce resources to create and deliver value for most of its stakeholders. In profit making industries, it translates to creating value for customers and shareholders; in government or public sector, it means the efficient delivery of value for money services to clients using economy and efficiency. Successful organisations achieve these strategic objectives through a performance management framework that integrates budgeting and cost management as its primary constituents.

  The budget is used as an instrument through which high-level strategic long-range plans can be converted into operational details for implementing and executing organisational strategy. Additionally, cost management is the backbone of an effective system for the allocation of scarce resources to key processes, products, and services in order to maximise value creation for customers, clients, shareholders, and funding suppliers. This cutting-edge course addresses very recent proceedings of both budgeting processes and approaches to cost analysis and management.

  Key highlights of this course will include:

  The evolution of vision and goals into winning strategiesThe role of budgeting and cost management in organisational successTraditional and modern approaches to cost analysisBusiness analytics and forecasting methods for budgetingOptimisation of budget reporting for effective managementBeyond budgeting and other recent developments

Objective:

At the end of this training course on Budgeting For Performance Management, attendees will be able to:

Know how budgeting fits into performance managementIntegrate financial and non-financial measures into budgetingUnderstand and contrast the different costing modelsBecome adept in conventional and modern budgetingEngage in strategic cost management and cost reduction.WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This Budgeting For Performance Management training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals:

Divisional managersPlanning managersBudgeting officersFunctional managers and team leadersFinancial professionalsHead office reporting team membersHow will attendees benefit?

The Budgeting for Performance Management training course will equip the attendees with practical tools and techniques for aligning budgets and organisational goals. An attendee will understand how to develop performance-based budgets, monitor financial results against targets, and make decisions that will guide them in optimising resource allocation.

Managers will develop essential skills associated with linking financial planning with strategic objectives for driving operational efficiency while holding teams accountable for results. The course also equips managers with advanced skills in forecasting, variance analysis, and performance reporting to increase their strength in effectively contributing to the overall success of their company.

Moreover, it instills in them the needed confidence necessary to engage their stakeholders in an understandable yet persuasive manner when communicating budgetary issues and performance metrics. That is vital in a leadership role.

Budgeting and Business Performance Management

• Creating value for key organisational stakeholders

• Business Performance Management (BPM) frameworks

• The fundamentals of competitive strategy

• The vital role of budgeting and cost management in BPM

• Principles of financial and management accounting

• Key financial measures of value creation

• Using strategy maps to integrate non-financial measures

Cost Planning and Cost Management

• Defining and understanding cost behaviour

• The role of costing in performance management

• Traditional costing: absorption costing

• Traditional costing: marginal costing and break-even analysis

• Traditional costing: standard costing control frameworks

• Developments in costing: Target and Kaizen costing

• Developments in costing: Activity Based Costing (ABC)

• A strategic approach to cost management and reduction

Steps and Techniques in Budget Preparation

• Forecasting techniques for budgeting

• Business Intelligence and budgeting

• Diagnostic and predictive analytics for budgeting

• Statistical tools and techniques in sales forecasting

• Statistical tools and techniques for cost forecasting

• Steps in the budgeting process

• Budgeting and managing capital expenditure (CapEx)

• Cash flow forecasting and budgeting

• Styles and approaches to budgeting

• Human and behavioural aspects of budgeting

Using Budgets to Monitor and Manage Performance

• Principles of Responsibility Accounting

• Variance analysis and performance management

• Standard costing and cost management

• Using data analytics to find the root cause of variances

• Data visualisation techniques for financial reports

• Designing budget reports

• Dashboards and their use in performance management

• Designing tactical dashboards for budget management

Beyond Budgeting to Adaptive Management

• Shortcomings of traditional approaches to budgeting

• Beyond Budgeting case study

• Moving towards decentralised performance management

• Replacing budgets with rolling forecasts

• Using key driver forecasts for risk management

• Using balanced scorecard to manage Key Performance Indicators

• Why traditional budgeting still has a key role to play