An Intensive 10-day Training Course
Mini MBA:
Strategic Planning & Effective Budgeting
Strategic Planning, Management Control & Effective Budgeting
UPCOMING SESSIONS
| Date | Venue | Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01-12 Dec 2025 | Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 02-13 Feb 2026 | Houston - USA | $15,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 11-22 May 2026 | London - UK | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 13-24 Jul 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 10-21 Aug 2026 | Paris - France | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 07-18 Sep 2026 | London - UK | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
| 30 Nov-11 Dec 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $11,900 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
Developing strategies, analyzing risks, negotiating effectively, budgeting, and controlling costs are crucial skills for managers committed to achieving top performance and making significant contributions to their organizations.
In a business environment that is increasingly uncertain and turbulent, both top and middle management must balance long-term vision with short-term actions. Managers who can adapt swiftly to frequent changes are highly sought after. This Mini MBA: Strategic Planning & Effective Budgeting training course provides a structured and coherent framework for mastering these essential skills, equipping you to navigate daily challenges and fulfill your long-term professional responsibilities.
MODULES
This training course is split into two modules:
MODULE I - Strategy, Risks, Negotiation & Leadership
MODULE II - Effective Budgeting & Operational Cost Control
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Training Course Objectives
This 10-day Anderson training course offers delegates opportunities to gain skills in strategy development and implementation, together with risk assessment. To understand finance, in particular budgeting and cost control and how performance measurement enables organisations to track the viability of their strategies. Packed with many practical exercises and a safe environment in which to practice new skills, delegates will:
- Gain an understanding of strategy and strategic thinking
- Learn about risk management and mitigation
- Practice negotiating and learn top tips for effective negotiations
- Develop skills in budgeting and cost control
- Understand how financial measurement supports strategic success
Designed for
This 10-day Anderson training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals who wish to develop their strategic leadership capabilities and gain a greater grasp of budgeting and cost control. For example:
- Current and potential Managers, and business Leaders at all levels
- Those responsible for developing and leading strategic changes
- Procurement and Client Service Managers responsible for negotiation strategies
- Functional Team Leaders in the governmental or private sector
- Staff Members responsible for budgeting and financial controls
- Non-finance Managers with financial responsibilities
The Course Outline
- How Strategy evolved into business
- Leadership Accountability for strategy development
- Strategic planning
- Describing the organisation’s Vision, Mission, Values & Strategy
- Selecting Options, Making Decisions
- Does having a Strategy guarantee success?
- The meaning and nature of risk
- Operational, Tactical and Strategic Risks
- Risk management
- Cost/benefits of mitigation
- Agility, Resilience & Black Swans
- Sources of Power & Influence
- Who negotiates and why
- Top Tips for ‘Win-Win’ negotiations
- Key skills for effective negotiations
- Preparing thoroughly: where to draw the line
- Leaders drive strategy & change
- Must leaders be charismatic?
- Leading or managing, or both?
- Leading in uncertain times, key skills
- The Challenge of employees “wanting to do what must be done”
- The challenge of managing change
- People & Systems are the foundations of success
- Building a coalition of change agents
- Effective channels of communication, pipelines to success
- Developing a personal action plan for further self-development
- 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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