What you'll learn:
- Reporting of material costs (raw materials, packaging, consumables etc.)
- Proper inventory valuation according to IAS 2
- Operational efficiency analysis (usage variance, recipe variance)
- Control over correctness and timeliness of financial postings related to material movements
- Materials' liquidity control and creation of necessary provisions
- Understanding of material module architecture in accounting systems: BOMs, storage locations, material types, material movements etc.
- Standard costing fundamentals; calculation of planned/standard costs
All the material objects that surround us are manufactured at production sites - factories and plants. In these places during the conversion process materials (raw materials, packaging, consumables etc.) are transformed into semi-finished products with the addition of labor, energy and equipment operation, and then into finished products.
In general manufacturing businesses are material-intensive: the share of raw materials in total costs can reach 60-70%. That is why reporting, analysis, planning and control of material costs form an important set of tasks, that is critical for a modern enterprise.
Financial controllers, analysts and production economists are the ones engaged in solving these tasks. Such specialists should have a wide range of skills and competencies, be familiar with variety of accounting systems, understand the scope of all plant departments, its responsibility areas and interrelations.
In this course you will go through the following subject areas:
Typical configuration of the production site (factory layout)
Architecture of material module in financial systems: storage locations, material types, material movements, etc.
Standard/planned prices, principles of its calculation and the impact on the financial result (standard costing methodology)
Analysis of purchasing activity, what is PPV (purchase price variance)
Inventory accounting and stock value calculation in accordance with IFRS (IAS 2). The process of stock revaluation
Analysis inventory turnover, calculation of necessary reserves (write-off provision)
Types of inventory stock-takes, the role of the financial controller
Assessment of the production operational efficiency using variance analysis: usage variance, recipe (BOM) variance
Through the course you will live a 4-month business cycle of a confectionery plant. During this time, together with the plant, you will:
purchase materials,
produce semi-finished products and finished goods,
perform an annual stock-take,
manage slow-moving inventories,
analyze production efficiency
prepare and deeply analyze financial statements related to material costs
The course is ideal for everyone who works in a manufacturing environment:
financial directors
controllers of production sites
finance analysts
production planners
as well as anyone who is interested in this professional area.
This course is not on accounting, but on controlling - nevertheless, it would be of great value for accountants
