Budgeting For Performance Management - Virtual Learning
Course Methodology
This Budgeting for Performance Management training course is designed as a highly participative workshop to provide delegates with the opportunity to apply the key principles and techniques of budgeting and cost management..
This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes:
- Discussions and opportunities for delegates to share experience
- Application of key principles to realistic case studies
- Hands on practice with Excel forecasting tools
Course Objectives
At the end of this Budgeting For Performance Management training course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand now budgeting fits in to performance management
- Combine financial and non-financial metrics to budgeting
- Understand and compare different approaches to costing
- Master traditional and advanced approaches to budgeting
- Apply a strategic approach to cost management and reduction
Target Audience
Budgeting and cost management are at the heart of organisational performance management, managers involved in any part of this process will benefit from attending this leading-edge training course.
This Budgeting For Performance Management training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will benefit:
- Divisional managers
- Planning managers
- Budgeting officers
- Functional managers and team leaders
- Financial professionals
- Head office reporting team members
Target Competencies
Organisational Impact
- Better organisational alignment with strategy
- Cost and budgeting awareness will be improved
- Improvements to budgeting techniques and outcomes
- Broadened knowledge of performance management techniques
- Awareness of linking financial and non-financial key metrics
- Knowledge of techniques for cost management and reduction
Personal Impact
- Better understanding of budgeting philosophies and methods
- Practical skills in forecasting and cost analysis
- Raised awareness of organisational critical success factors
- Development of strategic thinking and management
- Valuable skills in developing Key Performance Indicators
Course Outline
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
2026 Schedule & Fees
| Date | City | Language | Price | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 28 Jun - 02 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 05 Jul - 09 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 12 Jul - 16 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 19 Jul - 23 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 26 Jul - 30 Jul, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 02 Aug - 06 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 09 Aug - 13 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 16 Aug - 20 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 23 Aug - 27 Aug, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 30 Aug - 03 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Sep - 10 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Sep - 17 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Sep - 24 Sep, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Sep - 01 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 04 Oct - 08 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 11 Oct - 15 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 18 Oct - 22 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 25 Oct - 29 Oct, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 01 Nov - 05 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 08 Nov - 12 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 15 Nov - 19 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 22 Nov - 26 Nov, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 29 Nov - 03 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 06 Dec - 10 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 13 Dec - 17 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 20 Dec - 24 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | English | USD 2,000 | Book |
| 27 Dec - 31 Dec, 2026 | Online | Arabic | USD 2,000 | Book |
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