Certificate in Budgeting and Cost Management

• Level: First-Line and Middle Managers
• Courses: 5 (see course details below)
• Learning: On Demand 24/7
• CPD Hours: 100 Hours (each course takes approx. 20 hours to complete)
• Duration: 3 Months
• Certification: GMA Professional Credentials

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIAL AWARDS

CPD Certificates - On completion of each course in the program, you will be able to download and print a Course Completion Certificate, detailing your Continuing Professional Development Credits.

Digital Credentials - On successful completion of all your courses, you will receive an email with a link to your Digital Credentials. These will include your Digital Badge and Digital Certificate.

Social Share - You will be able to share your digital credentials on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

Course 1: Develop Business Budgets

This course is designed for business unit managers and business owners tasked with developing budgets. We will review the range of different types of budgets, which together make up the master budget framework for an organization. You will learn what to include in the different types of budgets, and about budgeting best practice, and alternative budget approaches you may encounter. The course provides guidance, practical assignments, and numerous tools to help you develop budgets for most types of organization.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Course 2: Foundations in Cost Managment

Managers at all levels of the organization need to understand business costs and know how to control and how to reduce them if required. In this course, we begin by looking at the different tyoes of costs and how they are classified. You will learn about cost centers, costing methods and how to use standard costs. We then examine the use of breakeven and techniques you can use to reduce costs and increase profitability in the organization.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Course 3: Accounting Foundations

This comprehensive course is designed for managers and staff who require a detailed understanding of accounting - including non-financial managers and executives, budget holders, accounts personnel and support staff working with accounts. You will learn about the different types of accounting, accounting systems and information required. You will learn the important difference between accrual and cash basis accounting. You will also learn about the principles of bookkeeping and management of the books. In addition, you will learn about the debits and credits framework, financial statements and how to develop your financial skills for accounting.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Course 4: Budgetary Planning and Control

In this course, you will learn how to take more control over the budgeting process, and identify ways in which you can ensure your budgeting process and reporting processes work for your business unit, and enhance business performance. The course provides tools to enable you to review the effectiveness of the organization’s budgetary planning process in supporting the delivery of the organization’s strategic objectives, and review the organization’s systems, procedures and reporting mechanisms that are used to monitor progress against budgets and their objectives.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Course 5: Business Planning and Budgeting

The Global Business Planning course is designed to enable managers to develop a complete business plan, with associated business financials. Your plan will enable you to justify the cost-effectiveness of your budgeting, and submit requests for financing, whether bank or venture capital investment. The product of this course will be a fully viable 3 to 5 year business plan, which you can use to build your business, and gather support from your stakeholders, whether senior managers or investors. In addition, you will be able to download a financials workbook, and associated business planning worksheets.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Accounting Foundations

This comprehensive course is designed for managers and staff who require a detailed understanding of accounting - including non-financial managers and executives, budget holders, accounts personnel and support staff working with accounts. You will learn about the different types of accounting, accounting systems and information required. You will learn the important difference between accrual and cash basis accounting. You will also learn about the principles of bookkeeping and management of the books. In addition, you will learn about the debits and credits framework, financial statements and how to develop your financial skills for accounting.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Accounting Foundations

This comprehensive course is designed for managers and staff who require a detailed understanding of accounting - including non-financial managers and executives, budget holders, accounts personnel and support staff working with accounts. You will learn about the different types of accounting, accounting systems and information required. You will learn the important difference between accrual and cash basis accounting. You will also learn about the principles of bookkeeping and management of the books. In addition, you will learn about the debits and credits framework, financial statements and how to develop your financial skills for accounting.
Duration: 20 hours
Certification: Download CPD Certificate on Completion

Learning

The program is delivered through online Learning through the Global E-Learning Portal. Each course comprises:

• - Online Lectures and interactive learning
• - Online Videos
• - Online Quizzes
• - Downloadable Learning Manuals (80 pages +)
• - Additional workbooks, articles, and case studies.

Assessment

Assessment in this program takes the form of Online-quizzes (normally 3 in each course). Each quiz has a pass mark of 70% and you can take the quizzes as many times as you wish.

Support

Tutor Support is available through email, web conferencing and phone, throughout your program.