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Effective Cost Minimization

Benefits and Added Value

As a manager you will, no doubt, involve in managing an increasing number of complex projects, and therefore facing a lot of situations in which you have to reduce the cost. The objective of the course is to help managers optimize their profit and to introduce the design of management control system. Moreover it introduces the measures that will guide to diagnose the need for and manage the implementation of cost reduction schemes.

Structure

This program will be conducted over five sessions, five hours per session, i.e. 25 hours. It will cover the following topics and issues:

  • Performance concepts.
  • Management control system and organizational goals.
  • Designing management control system.
  • Standards & standard costs.
  • Variances  and Investigating variances
  • Controllability and measurement of financial performance
  • Non-financial measures of performance.
  • Diagnosing the need for cost reduction.
  • Diagnosing areas of cost reduction
  • Suggested methods & procedures for cost reduction

Target Participants

This program is targeting the current and potential project managers and directors in different industries in order to engage them in a brainstorming experience about Contemporary Cost Reduction Applications.

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