Cost Reduction Techniques
General Objectives:
This Course aims to equip participants with the skills to analyze strategic cost management processes and to equate the problems posed by their implementation.
Specific Objectives:
- At the conclusion of this Course participants should be able to:
- Understand the contribution and results provided by cost control methods based on Activity Analysis;
- Introduce a cost control and cost reduction system in the company.
CONTENTS
Module I - The changing business environment
- The evolution of market characteristics, demand, production and distribution processes;
- New ways of organizing production and distribution;
- The need for cost systems that are a faithful reflection of the production and distribution proesses;
- Analysis of the business environment;
- The inevitability and added value of change.
Module II - Activity-based management system
- The Reason for the Activities;
- Analysis of the Activities;
- Activities of an industrial company;
- The cost of the activity;
- Calculating the cost of an activity;
- Allocation of the cost of the Activity;
- Case studies.
Module III - Activity based costing abc- activity based costing
- Definition and associated concepts;
- Cost calculations using the ABC method;
- Costs per Activity/Costs per Product;
- Using the ABC" costs in the management of activities;
- Application of the management control technique;
- Case Studies.
Module IV - Activity-based management - abm- activity based management
- Definition and associated concepts;
- Activity management as a cost control system;
- Methodologies for ABM implementation;
- ABM and the Management Information Systems;
- Application of the management control technique;
- Case Studies.
High Skills - Formação e Consultoria
Angola | Cabo- Verde | Moçambique | Portugal | S. Tomé e Princípe
