ACCA PM Performance Management (Full Course Sep'25 sitting)

Overview

Learn comprehensive performance management techniques for the ACCA PM exam through this full course designed for September 2025 sitting candidates. Master management information systems, big data analytics, and performance measurement tools used by organizations to track and improve operational effectiveness. Develop proficiency in cost and management accounting methods, including activity-based costing, marginal costing, and absorption costing techniques. Apply advanced decision-making frameworks to optimize resource allocation while managing business risks and uncertainty through scenario analysis and sensitivity testing. Gain expertise in budgeting methodologies, quantitative forecasting techniques, and standard costing systems for planning, control, and variance analysis. Evaluate organizational performance across private, public, and not-for-profit sectors using both financial metrics and non-financial key performance indicators, with special focus on divisional performance measurement, transfer pricing, and sustainability reporting. Build essential employability skills and technology competencies required for modern management accounting roles while preparing thoroughly for all aspects of the ACCA Performance Management examination.

Syllabus

Identify and discuss the management information systems, the uses and controls over information and big data and data analytics used by organisations to manage and measure performance.
Explain and apply cost and management accounting techniques.
Select and appropriately apply decision-making techniques to facilitate business decisions and promote efficient and effective use of scarce business resources, appreciating the risks and uncertainty inherent in business and controlling those risks.
Identify and apply appropriate budgeting techniques, including quantitative techniques, and methods for planning and control and use standard costing systems to measure and control business performance and to identify remedial action
Assess the performance of private, public and not-for-profit organisations from both a financial and non-financial viewpoint, appreciating the problems of controlling divisionalised businesses and the importance of allowing for sustainability and external aspects.
Demonstrate required employability and technology skills