Develop an understanding of zero-based budgeting and activity-based costing with this free online course on Alison.com. Tired of obtaining poor results for your organisation based on inaccurate forecasts and costing methods? Don't worry, we are here to help you change all that. Activity-based costing and zero-based budgeting are modern management tools that are helping numerous organisations achieve their desired goals. Now with the help of this online course on Alison, your organisation can achieve its objectives. So enrol now and learn these modern concepts!
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201741 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Define ‘zero-based budgeting’ and explain the need for zero-based budgets in modern-day organisations • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the zero-based budgeting method in forecasting • Describe the most common uses of zero-based budgeting in developing forecasts for different types of organisation • Define ‘activity-based costing’ and explain the theory behind this costing technique • Analyse the key differences between function-based costing methods and activity-based costing • Describe the steps involved in designing a properly functioning activity-based costing system |
| Course Code | 4619 |

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