Cost analyst

This ten course pack from BPP is designed to provide you with essential guidance and knowledge on financial management. These courses will develop the skills needed to carry out your day-to-day job.

By completing this pack, you will gain a better understanding of: 
 

• how to plan your organisation's finances
• budgeting
• expenses
• cash and credit
• working capital
• supply chain management.  

Is your organisation or project running efficiently? When things are going well, we often don’t spend enough time looking for efficiency improvements, and if things are going badly there can be a tendency to resort to arbitrary cost-cutting which can risk success in the long term.

This course provides a framework to help you improve your organisation’s efficiency. It helps you to analyse your business, consider where to best focus your resources and review how to balance short-term cost reductions with longer-term business needs to ensure a secure future for your business. Discover how to best plan your cost savings and, once you have decided on your plan, how to deliver this project and manage stakeholder expectations.

Every organisation requires an effective finance function to take the lead on financial planning, financial control and financial reporting. The finance team produces meaningful information to help leaders and managers make informed decisions. This also requires decision makers to have a basic understanding of accounting and to be able to understand financial information and reports.

This course is designed to help the non-financial managers and professionals gain the necessary skills to successfully interpret, analyse and make decisions based on financial information and reports.