Analyze and Apply Cost & Performance Management Concepts
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Analyze and Apply Cost & Performance Management Concepts
This course is part of Financial Reporting and Cost Management Foundations Specialization
Instructor: EDUCBA
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What you'll learn
Apply budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis techniques aligned with CMA Part 1 standards.
Evaluate cost behavior, costing systems, and profitability to support managerial decisions.
Analyze performance management frameworks, KPIs, and internal controls for strategic planning.
Skills you'll gain
- Performance Measurement
- Operating Budget
- Financial Controls
- Cost Management
- Variance Analysis
- Performance Analysis
- Resource Allocation
- Cost Control
- Financial Forecasting
- Cost Accounting
- Internal Controls
- Internal Auditing
- Budgeting
- Risk Management
- Management Accounting
- Forecasting
- Budget Management
- Revenue Forecasting
- Profit and Loss (P&L) Management
- Performance Management
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January 2026
33 assignments
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There are 9 modules in this course
Learners will develop the ability to analyze budgeting systems, apply forecasting and variance analysis techniques, evaluate performance management frameworks, and assess cost and profitability decisions using industry-relevant managerial accounting tools. The course emphasizes how financial and operational data can be transformed into actionable insights for effective planning and control.
This course provides a comprehensive and practical understanding of cost management, performance measurement, and internal control concepts essential for professionals involved in business decision-making. Learners will gain hands-on experience in preparing and interpreting budgets, forecasting business results, analyzing labor and overhead variances, and evaluating profitability across products, customers, and business units. The course also establishes strong foundations in cost behavior, costing methods, activity-based costing, and strategic cost management. Through structured modules, applied examples, and assessments, learners engage with real-world decision-making scenarios that connect accounting information to managerial insights. The course integrates traditional cost and performance concepts with modern frameworks such as key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, value chain analysis, and internal control systems. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to support planning, performance evaluation, and strategic decision-making in complex business environments.
This module introduces core financial planning tools and budgeting methodologies used in managerial decision-making, focusing on cash flow analysis, proforma financial statements, and modern budgeting techniques.
What's included
8 videos4 assignments
8 videosβ’Total 43 minutes
- Cash Flow Statementβ’8 minutes
- Proforma Balance Sheetβ’5 minutes
- Project Budgetβ’3 minutes
- Activity Based Budgetβ’8 minutes
- Zero Based Budgetβ’8 minutes
- Continuous Budgetβ’2 minutes
- Flexible Budgetβ’6 minutes
- Flexible Budget - Exampleβ’3 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Financial Statements and Planning Toolsβ’10 minutes
- Budgeting Approachesβ’10 minutes
- Advanced Budget Typesβ’10 minutes
- Financial Planning and Budget Foundationsβ’30 minutes
This module explores quantitative and qualitative forecasting tools and analytical models that support managerial planning, risk assessment, and data-driven decision-making.
What's included
4 videos3 assignments
4 videosβ’Total 29 minutes
- Forecastingβ’4 minutes
- Regression Analysisβ’9 minutes
- Learning Curve Analysisβ’10 minutes
- Sensiticity Analysisβ’6 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Forecasting Techniquesβ’10 minutes
- Learning and Sensitivity Modelsβ’10 minutes
- Forecasting and Decision Analyticsβ’30 minutes
This module focuses on performance management systems and variance analysis techniques used to evaluate operational effectiveness and managerial accountability.
What's included
6 videos4 assignments
6 videosβ’Total 26 minutes
- Performance Managementβ’1 minute
- Standard Cost and Variance Analysisβ’7 minutes
- Static Budget Varianceβ’4 minutes
- Flexible Budget Varianceβ’4 minutes
- Sales Volume Varianceβ’4 minutes
- Components of Flexible Budget and Direct Material Varianceβ’6 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Performance Measurement Basicsβ’10 minutes
- Budget Variancesβ’10 minutes
- Sales and Cost Variancesβ’10 minutes
- Performance Management and Variance Analysisβ’30 minutes
This module provides an in-depth examination of labor and overhead variances, enabling managers to diagnose efficiency, spending, and capacity utilization issues.
What's included
4 videos3 assignments
4 videosβ’Total 29 minutes
- Direct Labor Varianceβ’4 minutes
- Factory Overhead Varianceβ’10 minutes
- Analysis of Factory Overhead Varianceβ’3 minutes
- Components of Sales Varianceβ’12 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Labor and Overhead Variancesβ’10 minutes
- Advanced Overhead Analysisβ’10 minutes
- Labor and Overhead Variance Analysisβ’30 minutes
This module examines responsibility accounting systems and transfer pricing mechanisms used in decentralized organizations to promote goal congruence and performance evaluation.
What's included
5 videos3 assignments
5 videosβ’Total 34 minutes
- Management by Exceptionβ’6 minutes
- Responsibility Accountingβ’7 minutes
- Common Cost Allocationβ’5 minutes
- Transfer Pricingβ’9 minutes
- Transfer Pricing Continuesβ’7 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 50 minutes
- Responsibility and Control Systemsβ’10 minutes
- Allocation and Transfer Pricingβ’10 minutes
- Responsibility Accounting and Transfer Pricingβ’30 minutes
This module covers financial and non-financial performance measures used to evaluate products, customers, business units, and strategic performance frameworks.
What's included
7 videos4 assignments
7 videosβ’Total 30 minutes
- Performance Measuresβ’1 minute
- Product Profitability Analysisβ’3 minutes
- Business Unit Profitability Analysisβ’2 minutes
- Customer Profitability Analysisβ’2 minutes
- ROI Vs RIβ’9 minutes
- Key Performance Indicatorsβ’4 minutes
- Balanced Score Cardβ’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Performance Metricsβ’10 minutes
- Profitability Perspectivesβ’10 minutes
- Strategic Performance Frameworksβ’10 minutes
- Performance Measures and Profitability Analysisβ’30 minutes
This module builds foundational cost accounting knowledge, focusing on cost behavior, cost relevance, and traditional costing systems used for planning and control.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videosβ’Total 46 minutes
- Introduction to Cost Managementβ’1 minute
- Important cost Conceptsβ’9 minutes
- Important cost Concepts Continuesβ’11 minutes
- Variable Costβ’3 minutes
- Fixed Costβ’3 minutes
- Semi Variable Costβ’8 minutes
- Costing Techniquesβ’1 minute
- Actual Costingβ’3 minutes
- Normal Costingβ’5 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Cost Fundamentalsβ’10 minutes
- Cost Behavior Analysisβ’10 minutes
- Costing Techniques Overviewβ’10 minutes
- Cost Concepts and Costing Systemsβ’30 minutes
This module explores advanced costing methodologies, including job, process, joint, and activity-based costing, to improve cost accuracy and managerial insight.
What's included
9 videos4 assignments
9 videosβ’Total 68 minutes
- Absorption Vs Variable Costingβ’12 minutes
- Joint Costingβ’8 minutes
- Joint Costing Continuesβ’7 minutes
- By Product Costingβ’5 minutes
- Job Order Costingβ’8 minutes
- Job Order Costing Continuesβ’9 minutes
- Treatment os Spoilage in Job Order Costingβ’3 minutes
- Process Costingβ’8 minutes
- More on Process Costingβ’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Product and Joint Costingβ’10 minutes
- Job and Process Costingβ’10 minutes
- Process and Activity-Based Costingβ’10 minutes
- Advanced Costing Methodsβ’30 minutes
This module integrates strategic cost management tools with governance, risk management, and internal control frameworks to support long-term organizational effectiveness.
What's included
32 videos4 assignments
32 videosβ’Total 199 minutes
- Process Costing - FiFO Methodβ’8 minutes
- Process Costingβ’8 minutes
- Activity Based Costingβ’10 minutes
- Activity Based Costing Continuesβ’9 minutes
- Life Cycle Costingβ’12 minutes
- Service Cost and its Allocationβ’8 minutes
- More on Its allocationβ’9 minutes
- Supply Chain Managementβ’6 minutes
- Supply Chain Management Continueβ’7 minutes
- Lean Manufacturingβ’10 minutes
- Enterprise Resource Planningβ’5 minutes
- Theory of Constraintsβ’7 minutes
- Value Chain Analysisβ’4 minutes
- Business Process Re Engineeringβ’3 minutes
- Bench Markingβ’4 minutes
- Activity Based Managementβ’3 minutes
- Cost of Quality Analysisβ’7 minutes
- Introduction to Internal Controlsβ’3 minutes
- Meaning of Risk And Audit Risk Modelβ’10 minutes
- Internal Controls Definition and Overviewβ’3 minutes
- Objective of Internal Controlβ’4 minutes
- Components of Internal Controlβ’8 minutes
- Components of Internal Control Continueβ’7 minutes
- Parties Responsible for Successful Implementation of Internal Controlβ’5 minutes
- Control Process and Types of Internal Controlsβ’5 minutes
- Methods of Internal Control and Control Activitiesβ’11 minutes
- Corporate Governanceβ’3 minutes
- Internal Auditβ’4 minutes
- Scope of Internal Auditβ’3 minutes
- Types of Internal Auditβ’3 minutes
- Nature of Internal Auditβ’5 minutes
- Incidents to Be Reported in Internal Auditβ’4 minutes
4 assignmentsβ’Total 60 minutes
- Strategic Cost Management Toolsβ’10 minutes
- Value Chain and Operational Excellenceβ’10 minutes
- Governance, Risk, and Internal Auditβ’10 minutes
- Strategic Cost Management and Internal Controlβ’30 minutes
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