Activity Based Management
Activity based management (ABM) ensures that you have the right information to make key decisions that boost a business' performance. This course shows you how to apply it in your or your clients' organisations.
This course will enable you to
- Measure and therefore identify opportunities to enhance product and customer profitability
- Plan resource requirements, improve processes and reduce output costs
- Use the data in the business to identify areas for financial improvement and model the outcome of different actions
About the course
What information do you need as a manager? Not what you get in your monthly management accounts, which is a record of how input costs – such as people, consumables, rent and rates – vary against a prediction – the budget – made twelve to eighteen months previously.
Activity Based Management (ABM) provides the information you require for making the key decisions that boost business performance. This includes information such as the true cost of making products, providing services and the costs of servicing customers. It looks at which products, services and customers are profitable and which are not, as well as the level of resource required in future periods to make predicted volumes of products and provide planned levels of customer service.
Packed with detailed examples, drawn from practice, this course will help you to put these challenging ideas into practice in your own or your clients' organisations.
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Contents
- ABM in context
- Is the customer always right?
- What led to the development of ABM?
- What is ABM?
- What are the frameworks for measurement and improvement?
- What is the ABM framework?
- Flow of costs
- What are the flow of costs through an ABM model?
- What are the cost objects?
- What other costs are involved?
- What about product and customer profitability?
- How do I use process and process improvement?
- How do I embed the model?
- Basic principles of building models
- What is the flow of costs in the model?
- How should I use the general ledger?
- What are the categories of costs and activities?
- How do I assign costs from the general ledger?
- What do I need to know about cost drivers?
- How do I assign costs from the ledger to activities?
- How do I reassign costs to other departments?
- How do I assign frontline activities to the cost objects?
- How do I use unit costs for analysis?
- Undertaking an ABM project
- What are the objectives of the project?
- What are the key steps I need to take?
- What are the areas of potential difficulty?
- What software do I need?
- Who should I involve?
- How should I embed and refresh the model?
- How do I use ABM outputs to improve performance?
- How do I use ABM for commercial decision support?
- ABM in the real world
- How do I integrate business process re-engineering?
- How do I integrate value-based management?
- How do I integrate customer relationship management?
- How does ABM offer a new perspective?
- How can I make ABM work?
- What difference can ABM make?
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