This course will teach the participants how to create a more meaningful budget, and how to use this budget to make more effective important financial decisions. Throughout this course, participants will identify effective methods for translating their organization’s strategic initiatives into measurable financial targets. Best practices for cost estimating, budgeting, and variance tracking are explored using the latest techniques
Course Objective
Learning how to create positive budgets
Understanding how to keep budget relevant to organization’s needs
Being able to strategically link budget to management action and decisions
Being familiar with the major weaknesses of traditional budgeting techniques
Creating an adaptive performance measurement framework
Using alternative techniques to traditional budgeting
Course Outline
Day 1
Introduction to cost management and budgeting
Best practice for cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control
Cost management plans
Creating a cost baseline
Day 2
Organizational cost budgeting dependencies
Control thresholds
Earned value assumptions
Contracting basics
Day 3
Overview of the control costs process
Inputs to the control costs process
Tools and techniques for the control costs process
Outputs from the control costs process
Procurement planning
Reporting formats
Day 4
Techniques for preparing budgets and forecasts
Strategically linking budgets to management action
Non-financial budgets
Best practice with respect to resource types and cost accrual methods
Classifying costs correctly
Day 5
Microsoft Project's resource sheet
Developing cost estimating models in Microsoft Project
Custom views and tables in Microsoft Project
Predict cost overruns requiring corrective action
The Cost Of The Training Program Includes The Following:
Scientific article on flash memory.
Training Room.
Training.
Coffee break.
The training bag includes all the tools for the course.