Skills
Management control, budgeting and cost-based steering
Management control links strategy and the shop floor through figures: unit cost, budget, variances, action plan. It is the function that lets a leadership team know, every month, where the money went and what it produced.
Knowing what each thing costs
A company that knows its unit cost decides differently: it knows which product carries the margin, which customer consumes it and which workshop builds it. Management control establishes that figure, then puts it under tension through budgeting and variance analysis. The skill is as much about explaining as computing: a variance becomes useful the day the operational manager understands what produced it and what they can do about it next month.
- Establish a full unit cost and allocate it by product or by customer
- Build an annual budget and break it down by department
- Analyse a variance between plan and actual, and name its cause
- Run a monthly performance review with operational managers
The blocks that build it
The skill is built block after block, in the order of the years. You see here exactly where it is taught, and for how many taught hours.
| Teaching block | Programme | Taught hours | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management control | Business Management programme — Bac+3 level | 260 h | Year 3 |
| Advanced management control | Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 level | 120 h | Year 1 |
| Steering and indicators | Business Intelligence and Steering | 160 h | Year 2 |
| Corporate strategy | Business Management programme — Bac+3 level | 220 h | Year 3 |
The frameworks that carry it
The framework lists the blocks to be validated. This skill appears there as a professional requirement.
| Professional qualification | Target occupation | Level | Taught volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance and Administration Manager | finance manager of an SME or subsidiary | 6 · Manager and professional | 800 h |
| Chief Financial Officer | CFO | 7 · Expert and executive | 700 h |
| Business Unit Manager | branch manager, profit centre manager | 6 · Manager and professional | 800 h |
The volume behind the skill
You run a company's full budget cycle and lead the performance review that follows from it. These hours are taught: live sessions, workshops, output reviews and assessments.
- teaching blocks
- 4
- of taught instruction
- 760 h
- credits in total
- 76
- professional qualifications concerned
- 3
Catalogue rule: one credit is twenty-five hours of work, ten of them taught.
- Business Management programme — Bac+3 level
- 480 (63 %)
- Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 level
- 120 (16 %)
- Business Intelligence and Steering
- 160 (21 %)
Your routes in
Each row leads to the full programme page: objectives, admission, blocks and calendar.
| Programme | Level | Duration | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Management programme — Bac+3 level | Bachelor's degree | 3 years | 4 800 000 GNF per year |
| Finance and Accounting programme — Bac+5 level | Master's degree | 2 years | 6 800 000 GNF per year |
| Business Intelligence and Steering | Bachelor's degree | 2 years | 5 000 000 GNF per year |
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