Advanced Management Accounting

Description

This course explains the nature of management accounting and how it aids managers' decision-making. It looks at the impact that varying levels of costs and volume have on operating profit. The course also demonstrates how budgets are used to control and monitor the performance of an organization.

Investment appraisal aids decision-making when choosing capital projects that add value to an organization. This course demonstrates techniques to track the financial performance of an organization.

By attending this course, finance teams will recognize how the need to change is constant.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

What you will learn

Accounting for Decision-making

• Key characteristics of accounting information
• The role of information technology
• Commercial objectives
• Capex and opex

The Key Relationship – Cost, Volume, Profits

• Costs for decision-making
• Breakeven analysis
• Types of profit
• Cost management strategies

Control through Budgeting

• Corporate plans
• Budgets and forecasts
• Types of budgets
• Behavioural aspects of budgeting

Management Accounting – Importance of Stakeholder Value

• Defining the identity and grouping of stakeholders
• Defining stakeholder value of each group
• Creating the appropriate range of performance indicators

Investment Appraisal for Capital Decisions

• Methods of investment appraisal
• Non-financial aspects of investment appraisal
• Risk in investment appraisal
• Financial management of capital projects

Measuring Financial Performance

• Comparison of performance to budgets
• Accounting for responsibility
• The importance of performance indicators
• The Balanced Scorecard

Changing Nature of Managerial Accounting

• Roadmap for finance effectiveness
• From tangibles to intangibles
• The stakeholder model of an organization
• Beyond budgeting

Understanding Financial Data Analytics

• The properties of data
• Steps in the analytics process
• How organizations use analytics

Course Review

• Summary and recap of key learning objectives
• Action Planning