AB-2-040 (0) - Budgeting and Management Reporting

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3 (2024-01-01 to 2024-03-17)

English

Compulsory

First

2

5 cr

In this study unit the focus lies on the following
competencies:

Fact-based decision making competency 

Learning and Career-oriented competency 

These competencies support the following
Sustainable Development Goals:

SDG´s in focus:

#1 NO POVERTY
#4 QUALITY EDUCATION
#5 GENDER EQUALITY
#8 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
#9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
#10 REDUCED INEQUALITIES
#16 PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
#17 PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Upon completion of this study unit:

You have knowledge of the linkage between
strategy, annual plans and budgets.
(Knowledge)

You know how to prepare plans and budgets and how
to prepare informative
management reports of outcome vs. budget. (Skills)

You have the skill of creating budgets:
Income, Balance, Cash-flow budgets. (Skills)

You have a clear understanding of good management
reports. (Approach)

Budgeting and Budgets:
Income statement budgets
Balance sheet forecasts
Cash-flow budgets.

Best practices of management reporting.

Introduction to Business Administration,
Introduction to Financial Management, or
equivalent knowledge (needs to be discussed with
the examiner).

Managing Budgets and Projects

The course literature is not limited to the
literature listed below. The student can freely
use alternative literature with similar
contents.

Budgeting Basics and Beyond
CONTRIBUTORS Shim, Jae K.
Siegel, Joel G.
Shim, Allison I.
PUBLISHER John Wiley & Sons
DATE PUBLISHED September 2011
available in libraries and on Ebook Central
(Arcada Finna)

Andersson, Kenneth. Budgetering: En
Introduktion. 3. uppl. Malmö: Liber Ekonomi,
1997.

Articles listed in the course material.

• Lectures - 18 hours
• Practical exercises - 15 hours
• Project- and production work/artistic activities - 50 hours
• Individual studies - 52 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Participation in tuition

• Exams (written-, oral-, home-)
• Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

Individual hand-in assignment
* Preparing a budget for a business case
* Explaining and justifying choices and
solutions in the budget
* Answering specific questions asked in the
assignment
* designing a management reporting structure for
actual outcome vs. budget

• Donner Henrica
• Puukko Linda

Puukko Linda

https://arcada.itslearning.com/ External link

No limit

12 months after course has ended

2023-11-24 to 2023-12-22

• Date of examination will be announced later - Exams
• Date will be announced later - Reports and productions