JCB682 - Improving Margins

Course Description

All organizations understand the importance of maximizing revenue while minimizing costs. Yet this goal is only possible if you can accurately determine the margin you can expect on all the outputs you produce. If you’re maintaining a factory or office that produces varied goods and services, how much of your overhead should be assigned to each output? What if a single process creates multiple products; how can you really determine the accurate cost of each individual output?

In this course, you will be introduced to techniques that tease apart these complicated situations and determine how much value each output is truly delivering for your organization. You’ll explore real-world case studies, investigate qualitative margin analysis, and perform simple job cost allocations. With the aid of the uniquely crafted spreadsheets and deliberation guides, you’ll practice analyzing financial data and creating recommendations that can ultimately improve your organization’s margins.

The following course is required to be completed before taking this course:

• Improving Governance

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Benefits to the Learner

• Explore the use of qualitative margin analysis to investigate the cost of goods and services
• Perform a simple job cost allocation to calculate the cost of different jobs
• Investigate the use of two-stage costing and other improvements to better allocate overhead costs

Target Audience

• Managers and leaders responsible for a business unit
• Managers and leaders seeking to improve organizational performance
• Individuals influencing the design of accountability systems

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Management 360 : Management Accounting