Participants will refresh core management accounting concepts and apply them to practical decision-making, planning, and performance conversations across the business. Participants will work through cost classification, CVP analysis, relevant-costing scenarios, scorecards, and budgeting techniques to turn analysis into clear recommendations for non-financial stakeholders.

• Professional accountants moving into (or refreshing) managerial accounting responsibilities who want a concise, practice-ready toolkit. 
• Finance professionals who partner with operations and need to translate analysis into actionable guidance. 

• Classify costs by behaviour and function and explain implications for internal decisions and forecasting. 
• Apply cost–volume–profit (CVP) techniques to assess break-even, margins, sensitivity, and operating leverage. 
• Evaluate short-term decisions using relevant-cost analysis (e.g., make-or-buy, special orders, scarce resources, sell-or-process-further, and drop-or-keep). 
• Design and interpret performance measures and balanced scorecards that align with organizational strategy. 
• Build and review budgets (including flexible/rolling approaches) and communicate insights effectively to non-financial managers. 

• Overview of management accounting: role, concepts, and communication with non-financial managers. 
• Types of decisions and costing: cost identification, classification (behaviour/traceability/relevance), cost flows, overhead application, and mixed-cost analysis. 
• Cost–Volume–Profit analysis: break-even and target profit, contribution margin, margin of safety, operating leverage, multi-product considerations, and assumptions/limitations. 
• Decision making and relevant costing: structured decision process, opportunity/avoidable/sunk/differential costs; make-or-buy, scarce resources, special orders, sell-or-process-further, drop-or-keep, and transfer-pricing touchpoints. 
• Balanced Scorecard: perspectives, KPIs, linkage to strategy and budgets, and reporting practices. 
• Budgeting: master/flexible/rolling budgets, standard costing and variance analysis, zero-based vs. incremental approaches, accountability, and communication. 
• Other topics in management accounting: selected contemporary themes and case-based exercises. 

Live webinars have varying levels of expected interaction, with some requiring microphone and camera capabilities to support a proper learning experience – please email pdreg@bccpa.ca if you have concerns. 

In general, we encourage participants to have their cameras turned on to enhance their virtual learning experience. This practice promotes a stronger connection with the instructor and fellow participants, and fosters improved communication and collaboration.

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Registration terms and conditions, including the cancellation policy can be found here. If you require further assistance, please contact the PD Department.