Cost Accounting and Management

Cost accounting and management are priorities for organisations facing strong competition.
We have developed this program to cover both traditional and advanced methods and techniques used to account, analyse and manage costs.

Learning objectives

Understand and apply basic concepts, methods and approaches of cost accounting to different organisations and for different reasons.
Apply various techniques such as activity-based costing, Kaizen, value analysis, target costing, life cycle to analyse and manage costs.
Prepare cost analysis and reports to enable management to make informed decisions.

Who should attend?

CFOs, finance business partners, management accountants, financial / cost controllers, planning and analysis specialists, internal auditors, accountants.

Training Agenda:

Main costing concepts	Cost elements, cost structure, cost behaviour, cost drivers.
Application of the costing concepts to different organisations and cost objects	Job costing. Batch costing. Process costing.
Reasoning and application of the main costing methods	Marginal costing. Absorption costing. Reconciliation.
Main costing approaches	Actual costing. Normal costing. Standard costing.
Variance analysis	Variance calculations. Reconciliation reports. Standard costing automation.
Product and service costing using ABC	Basic steps to calculating an activity based cost. ABC: benefits and limitations. Direct product profitability (DPP) within the retail sector. Customer profitability analysis (CPA). Distribution channel profitability. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC). Activity-based management (ABM).
Kaizen and continuous improvement	Kaizen costing versus standard costing concepts.
Value adding analysis	Value chain analysis. Value analysis. Functional analysis.
Target costing	Target costing stages. Target costs and standard costs. Kaizen costing and target costing.
Life cycle costing	Product / customer life cycle budget.

Dates:

23, 30 September 2025 & 7, 14 October 2025 (09:00 - 13:15 CET)

Format:

Live online

Language:

English

Price:

EUR 600 (excl. VAT)

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