An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Budgeting For Performance Management
Planning and Managing Organisational Excellence
Course Overview
This GLOMACS training course on Budgeting for Performance Management is focused on the imperative facing all organisations to allocate scare resources to create and deliver value to their key stakeholders. In profit making businesses this means creating value for customers and shareholders; whilst in the government and public sectors this means effectively delivering ‘value for money’ services to clients with economy and efficiency. The most successful organisations achieve these strategic goals within an effective performance management framework in which budgeting and cost management have key roles to play.
Budgets are the tool with which strategic high level long-term plans can be translated in to detailed operating plans, which facilitate the implementation and execution of organisational strategy. Cost management is at the heart of an effective system for allocating scarce resources to key processes, products and services to maximise the value created for customers, clients, shareholders and funding providers. This leading edge course will focus on recent development in both the budgeting process, and the approach to cost analysis and management.
This course will feature:
- How vision and goals are converted in to winning strategies
- Budgeting and cost management’s role in organisational success
- Traditional and advanced approaches to cost analysis
- Business analytics and forecasting methods for budgeting
- Optimising budget reporting for effective management
- Beyond Budgeting and other recent developments
Training Outline
DAY 1: 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
DAY 2: 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
DAY 3: 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
DAY 4: 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
DAY 5: 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
Certificates
- On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
- Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
Accreditation
GLOMACS is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. NASBA have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.
All Training Seminars delivered by GLOMACS by default are eligible for CPE Credit.
Providers and Associations
About Saudi Glomacs
At Saudi GLOMACS, we specialize in delivering world-class training courses in Saudi Arabia and across various international locations. Our training courses are tailored to meet the unique demands of Saudi Vision 2030 and the Human Capability Development Program, focusing on empowering Saudi citizens and enhancing workforce skills. We offer diverse courses spanning leadership, management, engineering, and technical disciplines to cultivate expertise and drive professional growth. Our flexible learning options—whether in-person, online, or in-house—ensure accessibility and convenience for individuals and organizations alike.
With over 30+ years of experience through the GLOMACS global network, we are committed to delivering innovative, results-driven training solutions. Our expert instructors combine industry knowledge with dynamic teaching methods, fostering practical skill development and long-term career success. By choosing Saudi GLOMACS, you're investing in personal excellence and contributing to the Kingdom’s sustainable economic growth and vision-driven transformation.
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