Introduction
This virtual workshop is part of our series on Business and Accounting Strategies in Uncertain Times. The series is made up of two Masterclasses, 1: Reshaping Strategy and 2: Implementing Strategy. Each Masterclass is made up of component modules. You can book a full 5 session class or chose individual modules.
This online management accounting training is being delivered live in 2 individual sessions which run on consecutive days. The sessions will run each day from 13:00 – 17:00 London (UK).
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Do you know who your most profitable customers are? Do you know the true cost of each of your products or services? Does your pricing reflect the full cost of serving the customer? What drives cost and value for money in your organisation?
This information is vital, especially as you build your strategy, but rarely available. The problem is that the information from your accounting systems is designed for external reporting and to meet tax requirements. There’s a big difference between accounting information and the true economics of the business. Activity based costing fills this gap.
In this 2-session course we will give you tools and techniques to:
- Determine the true profitability of each of your customers
- Segment customers and markets
- Understand the true costs of your products and services
- Make better pricing decisions
- Eliminate costly and non-value adding activities
- Effectively challenge your operating costs
The course introduces the concepts of activity-based costing for the small and medium business and then develops these in a practical workshop teaching how to build and use costing models.
Activity based costing is often associated with manufacturing businesses but is applicable to any organisation that has products or services. The course looks at application of activity based (or output) costing in service industries and in the public sector.
During this workshop, you will:
- Use the cause-and-effect “lens” of activity-based costing to design a cost model that accurately reflects the fundamental economics that underlie your organisation
- Accumulate a “toolbox” of costing concepts, tools and techniques that will help to incorporate seemingly complex issues into your costing model with a minimum of difficulty
- Create templates that will use your model’s costing rates to accurately assign costs to your company’s jobs, products, services, customers, markets, etc.
- Practice using your model to support a variety of management decisions
- Learn techniques for gathering your company’s detailed information for populating your model and templates