Brochure Strategic cost management

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BRING A STRATEGIC DIMENSION TO MANAGING YOUR COSTS STRATEGIC COST MANAGEMENT You would like to keep costs down? If so, you must keep yourself also in check. In this programme we share with you the most recent developments in cost control and cost management. We tackle concepts such as Activity Based Costing, Total Cost of Ownership and Customer Profitability. And we analyse: How do you apply those concepts in the day-to-day operation of your business, and which instruments and techniques are efficient and feasible in this context? FOR WHOM? • As a financial expert, you seek to gain in-depth knowledge of cost management. • You are an accountant, controller, financial manager, production manager or management consultant. ADDED VALUE FOR YOU AND YOUR COMPANY • You will be confident and comfortable in applying Activity Based Costing (ABC). • You will know everything on Time-Driven Activity Based Costing, the latest off-shoot of ABC. • You will be able to analyse and assess the profitability of products, customers and markets by way of the eory of Constraints, Customer Profitability and Total Cost of Ownership. Our inspiring campuses

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Bring a strategic dimension to managing your costs

strategic cost management

You would like to keep costs down? If so, you must keep yourself also in check. In this programme we share with you the most recent developments in cost control and cost management.

We tackle concepts such as Activity Based Costing, Total Cost of Ownership and Customer Profitability.

And we analyse: How do you apply those concepts in the day-to-day operation of your business, and which instruments and techniques are efficient and feasible in this context?

For whom?

• Asafinancialexpert,youseektogainin-depthknowledgeof cost management.

• Youareanaccountant,controller,financialmanager,production manager or management consultant.

added value For you and your company

• YouwillbeconfidentandcomfortableinapplyingActivity Based Costing (ABC).

• YouwillknoweverythingonTime-DrivenActivityBasedCosting, the latest off-shoot of ABC.

• Youwillbeabletoanalyseandassesstheprofitabilityofproducts, customers and markets by way of the Theory of Constraints, Customer Profitability and Total Cost of Ownership.

Our inspiring campuses

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uw keynote sprekers

• Prof Filip Roodhooft teaches Accounting & Control. As Research Deanheiscloselyinvolvedwithmanyresearch projects. In addition he specialises in Management Accounting and Total Cost of Ownership.

• Prof Regine Slagmulder is professor of Accounting & Control. Her courses and research revolve around the links between Performance Management systems and corporate strategies, and topics like Strategic Cost Management, Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard.

practical inFo

Dates and venues4 daysLeuven Campus: 16, 17, 23, 24 May 2013

LanguageEnglish

Fee€ 3,095 (excl. 21% VAT)

programme design

You are provided with a strong mix of skills: the latest techniques, lectures by management practitioners and case studies from a variety of sectors.

And there is more: the exercises provided enable you to fully master the ABC technique. Our guest speakers always keep their finger on the pulse in the field of cost management and the application of ABC systems in top companies.

module 1: introduction to strategic cost management

• In-depthreviewofprovenandemergingtechniquesforstrategiccostmanagement

• TheartofActivityBasedCosting(ABC)• Assessingindetailtherealcostofeveryitemproducedoranyservice

delivered through ABC as an advanced Management Accounting System• SpeciallecturebyaninvitedpractitioneronimplementingABC

module 2: customer proFitaBility analysis

• Analysisandassessmentoftheprofitabilityofproducts,customersandmarkets, based on cost information

• Identificationofwhichcostsaregeneratedbywhichcustomers,withaviewtoimproving and optimising profitability, using Customer Profitability Analysis

• SettingandreachingcostobjectivesinvariousproductdesignstagesthroughTarget Costing

module 3: time-driven activity Based costing

• Time-DrivenActivityBasedCosting,thelatesttakeonABC:thetechnique,its advantages and drawbacks, real-life examples, etc.

• TheoryofConstraints:thefamousmethodformaximisingoperationalincome under constraints in the chain of production

• PracticalapplicationsoftheTheoryofConstraints

module 4: total cost oF ownership

• Analysisandevaluationofprimecostcomponentsofproductsorservicespurchased, leveraging the concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

• Fulltransparencyofthetotalprimecostofproductsandservicespurchased,and control over your purchasing process

• Mappingofallthevisibleandhiddencostsofproductsandservicesthroughtheir entire life cycles

• DevelopmentandimplementationofaTCOmodel

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Vincent BaguéGroup Product ManagerT: + 32 9 210 97 [email protected]

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