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Training Courses > Procurement training > Finance and cost management Finance Management Training
Learn how to effectively plan, manage, and control business costs through a cost management system. Develop a total cost of ownership approach and understand how to calculate cost breakdowns.
- 5.5+ hours
- 11 courses
- 41 learning tools
Team-based digital learning
Your team will learn:
- Cost calculation
- Estimation and should cost
- TCO
- Value engineering
- Reading balance sheets
- Cash flow statements
- Financial ratios
Finance Management Training
Learn how to master the fundamentals of finance and cost management by effectively planning, managing and control business costs. Discover how a total cost of ownership approach can benefit your organization and explore core financial concepts from balance sheets, profit and loss, TCO and EBITDA.
Included in our finance & procurement training
Cost management is the essential process of effectively planning and controlling the costs involved in a business and by implementing a cost management system. Your team will learn how to apply a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach, how to calculate a cost breakdown and how to calculate “Should Cost”.
Within our detailed procurement training courses we deep dive into financial concepts such as value analysis, value engineering, balance sheets, profit and loss, EBITA, cash flow, ROTA, ROE, and working capital. We explore in detail not only the role of inventory accounting, activity-based costing, and the cash-to-cash cycle, but how they benefit your organization.
Procurement cost management
We explore the role procurement plays in managing costs – including price versus cost, cost management methodologies, cost modelling, TCO and value analysis, and category specific cost management.
How to calculate cost savings in procurement?
Learn how to develop a detailed, supplier-specific cost model and conduct a detailed cost breakdown.
Procurement Cost Estimation
Understand the essential know-how to build an industry cost model and cost estimations, learn to work with industry averages, and use “should cost” as the starting point for negotiation.
TCO in Procurement
A deep dive into developing and using a TCO analysis covering the definition and positioning, using TCO for supplier selection, and using TCO cost for supplier evaluation.
Value analysis in procurement
Discover the key principles of analyzing and engineering for best value, value analysis and cost matrices, the process and value analysis for tear downs.
Reading balance sheets
Learn how balance sheets provide insights into financial stability and how assets can contribute it. Learn how the liabilities and shareholders’ equity section of the balance sheet can affect stability.
Income statements
Discover what an income statement is, and how procurement can affect it.
Procurement Cash Flow
Learn how cash flow is structured, how procurement’s actions affect the cash flow statement. We explore how procurement’s actions can impact the cash flow statement – including through investing and financing activities.
Financial ratios in Procurement
Understand the key definitions of gross margin, profit from operations, ROTA, and how to calculate the current and acid test ratios.
Suitable for the following roles:
- Category Manager
- Procurement Manager
- Support Manager
- Quality Assurance Officer
- Senior Buyer
- Buyer
- Operational Buyer
- Procurement Analyst
This learning content includes:
- High-impact
learning - Exams &
assessments - Simulations
- Expert
Reviews - Application
based tasks - Microlearning
- Serious
games - Webinar
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