Mastering Costs and Budgets

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Build your decisions on costing information

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This programme focuses on gathering cost data, cost calculations, and drawing up budgets. Participants are given essential knowledge and tools to assess the profitability of products, customers and markets.

After the programme you will be able to design a simple cost calculation system of your own, and you will know what Activity Based Costing can do for you. You will know the ropes of producing and analysing budgets.

Value-added for you and your company

  • You will be introduced to key concepts and various techniques of cost calculations.
  • You will know how to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant costs and yields.
  • You will master the basic techniques of Activity Based Costing (ABC).
  • You will be familiar with drawing up budgets.

Is this programme for you?

This programme is especially suitable for professionals with little or no prior knowledge of accounting who wish to get a grip on costing and budgeting.

The Vlerick Approach

Vlerick connects theory to practice, and back again. Theoretical concepts and insights turn tangible through pratical examples, cases and exercises. Such case studies present excellent opportunities to compare notes with faculty and fellow participants, offering different angles of analysis and refreshing options for action.

This programme's unique feature is its applied nature: participants can apply the models and concepts offered immediately to their own organisations.

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