Explains how costs are classified and how cost behaviour is represented across business operations.
Programme overview
This self-paced programme is delivered by our expert Bartosz Tyrała. Organisations use management accounting and ERP systems to structure financial information and interpret business performance. This programme introduces key management accounting concepts and explains how they are represented within ERP environments. Learners progress from cost classification, cost behaviour, and CVP analysis for strategic decisions, through ERP integration, cost and profit centre management, and actual versus standard costing, to financial statements, budgeting with ERP data, and capital investment evaluation. Covering nine modules, the programme ends with a fully integrated ERP case study serving as a complete strategic decision-making simulation.
Programme structure
Key Module 1: Cost Classification and Behavior in Business Operations
Key Module 2: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis for Strategic Decisions
Introduces cost-volume-profit concepts and explains how relationships between cost, volume and profit are described.
Key Module 3: ERP Systems: Integration and Management Accounting Modules
Explains how ERP systems integrate management accounting concepts and how system modules structure financial data.
Key Module 4: Cost Centers and Profit Centers in ERP
Introduces cost and profit centres and explains how organisational structures are represented within ERP systems.
Key Module 5: Cost and Profitability Management: Actual vs Standard Costing
Explains the difference between actual and standard costing and how profitability concepts are represented in ERP environments.
Key Module 6: Financial Statements in the ERP Context
Explains how financial statements are structured within ERP systems and how financial information is represented.
Key Module 7: Budgeting and Forecasting with ERP Data
Introduces budgeting and forecasting concepts and explains how ERP data supports financial planning structures.
Key Module 8: Capital Investment Evaluation in ERP Environments
Explains how investment evaluation concepts are represented within ERP systems and financial structures.
Key Module 9: Integrated ERP Case Study: Strategic Decision-Making Simulation
Provides a structured overview of how accounting and ERP concepts are combined in a comprehensive business context.
Outcome and impact
Business Outcomes
Learners understand management accounting concepts in ERP systems, recognising how cost structures, statements and budgets are organised to support business reporting, and decision-making in practice.
Is this right for you?
Suitable for organisations introducing management accounting in ERP contexts, or teams in finance, operations, and management roles that need to understand how ERP systems represent financial records.
Programme Impact
The programme creates a shared understanding of management accounting and ERP terminology, supporting clearer communication and consistent interpretation of financial information across organisations.