An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Effective Budgeting
& Operational Cost Control
Planning, Managing and Measuring Performance for Organisational Success
UPCOMING SESSIONS
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03-07 Nov 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 08-12 Dec 2025 | Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 09-13 Feb 2026 | Houston - USA | $7,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 20-24 Jul 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 17-21 Aug 2026 | Paris - France | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 14-18 Sep 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 05-09 Oct 2026 | Barcelona - Spain | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 07-11 Dec 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04-08 May 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 09-13 Nov 2026 | Online | $3,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
The Effective Budgeting & Operational Cost Control training course offers essential guidance in managing financial performance. Effective budgeting and operational cost control are crucial for organizations to maintain competitiveness by adopting best practices and employing appropriate planning and control tools to enhance value for customers and shareholders. Activities such as budget preparation, analysis, and cost management ensure the alignment with long-term strategic goals.
This training course comprehensively covers these critical areas, catering to anyone involved in budgeting and cost management responsibilities at various levels—whether departmental, business unit, project, or organizational.
This Anderson course will feature:
- Practical management accounting applications
- The budget process and best practice
- Traditional and alternative methods of budgeting and cost control
- Purposes and benefits of cost analysis
- KPIs and the balanced scorecard
Training Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Implement the budgeting process
- Identify the various types of cost behaviour
- Consider traditional and innovative approaches to budgeting and cost control
- Carry out cost analysis
- Use a balanced scorecard
Designed for
This Anderson training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals, greatly benefiting those with direct or indirect budget responsibilities within a team, department, division or at the corporate level. This training course is suitable for first appointment professionals on fast-track development programmes, and for all professionals from every business discipline and department who are involved in the budget process, and include those employed in:
- Financial planning, costing and control
- Departmental planning and management
- Cost centre, revenue centre, profit centre, investment centre management
- Manufacturing, production, engineering, human resources, marketing, and sales
- Project management
The Course Outline
- The key role of budgeting and cost control in contemporary organisations
- Budgetary planning and control
- The importance of value – for customers and shareholders
- Financial accounting and management accounting
- Integrating the financial and non-financial aspects of budgeting
- Financial planning and the budgeting process
- The key features of budgeting
- Advantages and disadvantages of budgeting
- Divisionalisation and responsibility accounting
- Operating budgets: zero-based, incremental, and activity-based
- Capital budgets
- Cash budgets
- Different costs for different purposes
- Fixed costs and variable costs
- Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
- Contribution and marginal costing
- Absorption costing
- Decision-making
- Indirect costs (overheads) and direct costs
- Under-costing and over-costing: the consequences for profitability
- Traditional cost allocation systems and activity based costing (ABC)
- Refinement of the costing system
- Activity based budgeting (ABB)
- Standard costing, flexed budgets, and variance analysis
- Broadening performance measurement systems
- Innovative approaches to costing
- Integrating financial and non-financial performance measures
- The balanced scorecard
- Strategy maps
- Six sigma
The Certificate
- Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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Once your registration is successfully completed, you will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. This email will contain your registration details, invoice, and the necessary joining instructions for the course.
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Where are your training courses held?
Our training programs are hosted at luxurious five-star hotels in prestigious destinations across the globe. Some of our popular locations include Dubai, London, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, Vienna, and many other iconic cities.
Can I request customized corporate training?
Yes, we offer tailored corporate training solutions to meet your organization’s specific needs. Please contact us at [email protected] or call +971 4 273 3503 for more information.
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