Effective Budgeting & Operational Cost Control

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Effective Budgeting
& Operational Cost Control

Planning, Managing and Measuring Performance for Organisational Success

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
21-25 Jul 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
11-15 Aug 2025Paris - France$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
15-19 Sep 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
06-10 Oct 2025Barcelona - Spain$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
03-07 Nov 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
08-12 Dec 2025Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
09-13 Feb 2026Houston - USA$6,950RESERVE A SEAT
20-24 Jul 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
17-21 Aug 2026Paris - France$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
14-18 Sep 2026London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
05-09 Oct 2026Barcelona - Spain$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
07-11 Dec 2026Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
Online sessions
DateVenueFee
05-09 May 2025Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
10-14 Nov 2025Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
04-08 May 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
09-13 Nov 2026Online$3,950RESERVE 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

Day One: Introduction: Building A Common Financial Language
  • 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
Day Two: 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
Day Three: Cost Analysis
  • Different costs for different purposes
  • Fixed costs and variable costs
  • Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
  • Contribution and marginal costing
  • Absorption costing
  • Decision-making
Day Four: Traditional And Advanced Techniques Of Cost Control
  • 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
Day Five: Beyond the Budgets, The Balanced Scorecard And Six Sigma
  • 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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    The training fees include full access to the training venue, along with comprehensive training materials to enhance your learning experience. Additionally, participants will be provided with writing supplies and stationery. To ensure comfort and convenience, the fee also covers lunch and refreshing coffee breaks throughout the duration of the course.

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    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.

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