Cost Management: Engaging with Uncertainty
Discover how agile cost management strategies can help you navigate uncertainty, uncover hidden opportunities, and build lasting value across your organisation.
£100 +VAT

Cost Management: Engaging with Uncertainty
£100 +VAT

Cost Management: Engaging with Uncertainty
This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.
This course will enable you to
- Decide on priorities and apply agile accounting principles to navigate uncertainty
- Use cost estimation tools to create realistic forecasts and plans
- Identify drivers of efficiency and their impact on operational costs
- Maximise process efficiency and business agility using a structured six-step approach
- Understand how workforce engagement enhances flexibility and resilience
About the course
We often begin thinking about cost management when things get tough, and our impulse can be to tighten our belts and keep expenditure down. But this can prove disastrous. What we should be doing is searching for opportunities, and engaging our workforce in new possibilities.
This course explores agile accounting and cost management strategies that help businesses respond effectively to uncertainty. You’ll look at cost estimation tools, process efficiency drivers, and a six-step model for achieving business agility – supported by real-world examples.
By the end, you’ll be able to identify the right priorities, create realistic forecasts, improve operational efficiency, and engage your team to adapt and thrive in a volatile environment.
Contents
Cost management in an unpredictable world
The purpose of cost management
Time for a change…
Risk and uncertainty
Essential business priorities
Value versus cost
The concept of value
Exploring opportunities
Investment appraisal
Seeking out opportunities
Agile accounting
Innovation accounting
The pyramid of metrics
The agile philosphy
Cost estimation
Improving performance
Making improvements
Measuring process efficiency
Cost management by business process
Putting a price on process
Improving business processes
A way forward
Achieving business agility
The short way to success
Adapting to change
Pilots and experiments
People improve processes
People power
The way forward
Survival tips
How it works
Author

Ross Maynard
Ross has worked as a consultant and trainer for over 20 years, specialising in finance processes, management information and performance measurement. He supports organisations to understand their processes; facilitates improvement teams; and supports staff to work together as a team to deliver tangible and sustainable improvements.
You might also like
Take a look at some of our bestselling courses








