Working with costs and budgets.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Leadership and Management "ILM" Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Institute of Leadership & Management.

Series:

Superseries (Institute of Leadership & Management (Great Britain))

Super series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cost.

Budget.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Edition:

5th ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Pergamon Flexible Learning, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).

Contents:

superseries Working with Costs and Budgets; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Unit specification; Workbook introduction; 1 ILM Super Series study links; 2 Links to ILM qualifications; 3 Links to S/NVQs in Management; 4 Workbook objectives; 5 Activity planner; Session A Classifying costs; 1 Introduction; 2 Organizational costs; 3 Labour costs; 4 Materials costs; 5 Overheads; 6 Fixed and variable costs; 8 The need to control costs; 7 Break-even analysis; 9 Summary; Session B Standard costing; 1 Introduction; 2 Setting standards; 3 Standard costing in practice; 4 Variances from standard

5 The value of standard costing6 Summary; Session C Controlling and reducing costs; 1 Introduction; 2 Cost information and decisions; 3 Cost centres; 4 Control through cost centres; 5 Cost consciousness; 6 Checklists for controlling costs; 7 Cost reduction; 8 Summary; Session D What is a budget?; 1 Introduction; 2 The purpose of budgets; 3 Beginning a budget; 4 Why do we need budgets?; 5 The advantages of budgets; 6 Using budgetary control; 7 Summary; Session E Monitoring performance against budget; 1 Introduction; 2 Budgetary control; 3 Flexible budgets and budgetary control

4 Non-financial budgets5 Standard costing and budgetary contro; 6 Summary; Performance checks; 1 Quick quiz; 2 Workbook assessment; 3 Work-based assignment; Reflect and review; 1 Reflect and review; 2 Action plan; 3 Extensions; 4 Answers to self-assessment questions; 5 Answers to activities; 6 Answers to the quick quiz; 7 Certificate

Notes:

"Published for the Institute of Leadership & Management."

ISBN:

1-136-34823-9

1-136-34824-7

0-08-091473-X

9780080914732

OCLC:

798532554