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Certified Cost Manager

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Course Overview

Cost management is critical for organisations seeking to maintain profitability, control expenditures, and make informed financial decisions. This intensive 5-day course is designed for professionals responsible for managing budgets, analysing costs, and ensuring value throughout a project or organisation's lifecycle.

Participants will gain the knowledge and tools to effectively plan, track, control, and report on costs using industry best practices. This includes budgeting techniques, variance analysis, cost estimating, lifecycle costing, and cost optimisation strategies. The course aligns with global project and cost management frameworks and supports learners pursuing a recognised Certified Cost Manager credential.

Objective:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the full scope of cost management and its role in business success.
  • Plan and develop accurate cost estimates and budgets.
  • Monitor, control, and report cost performance effectively.
  • Analyse variances and recommend corrective actions
  • Apply cost reduction and value engineering strategies.
  • Integrate cost management with scheduling and risk management.
  • Support strategic decision-making through cost insights
  • Align cost management with organisational financial goals.
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Course Outline

Day 1: Cost Management Fundamentals

  • Principles and objectives of cost management
  • Cost management lifecycle: planning to close out
  • Classifying direct, indirect, fixed, and variable costs
  • Cost elements in projects, operations, and procurement

Day 2: Budgeting and Cost Estimating Techniques

  • Creating cost estimates: top-down, bottom-up, parametric, analogous
  • CAPEX and OPEX planning
  • Developing cost baselines and funding requirements
  • Aligning budgets with scope and resource planning

Day 3: Cost Control, Monitoring and Reporting

  • Earned Value Management (EVM) overview
  • Measuring performance against baselines
  • Cost variance (CV) and cost performance index (CPI)
  • Forecasting cost to completion and reporting tools

Day 4: Value Engineering and Cost Optimisation

  • Principles of value analysis and functional cost reduction
  • Identifying cost drivers and waste elimination
  • Benchmarking and cost-saving initiatives
  • Case study: Applying value engineering to a project or service

Day 5: Integrated Cost Management and Certification Review

  • Linking cost to time and risk management
  • Lifecycle costing (LCC) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Cost audit, compliance, and documentation best practices
  • Final knowledge review and certification preparation
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Certified Cost Manager

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date:15 - 19 Sep 2025

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