Boardroom presentation of a quarterly accounting summary overlooking a Gulf skyline
- Status
- Principal course
- Subject
- Accounting
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 40 guided learning hours — typically seven days intensive or nine weeks part time
- Delivery
- Live online, or on site for groups
- Options
- Individual, group or corporate
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion · eligible for the academic pathway
- Availability
- Worldwide — Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, or in the UK
- Study options
- Online from your own country, or in person in the UK
- Course fee
- Quoted on request
Course overview
Management accounting is where finance stops recording the past and starts influencing decisions. This programme covers costing methods, budget construction, variance analysis and the short-term decision techniques that finance teams are expected to bring to a management meeting. Learners work with realistic budget packs and are coached on how to present a variance report to non-financial managers — a skill that materially changes how a finance function is regarded inside an organisation.
Who this course is for
- Management accountants and finance business partners
- Finance staff preparing budgets for the first time
- Departmental managers with budget responsibility
- Accountants moving into a commercial finance role
Learning objectives
By the end of the programme learners will be able to:
- Classify costs and apply absorption and marginal costing
- Build an operating budget and a supporting cash budget
- Calculate and interpret sales, material, labour and overhead variances
- Apply break-even and contribution analysis to short-term decisions
- Present financial information clearly to non-financial colleagues