Crash course in controlling for managers

Essentials from corporate controlling

This training is held in German.
As a manager, you are expected on the one hand to have a qualified grasp of accounting and controlling based on business terminology. On the other hand, you are expected to use your solid understanding of figures to identify tendencies, trends and impulses from key figures and make business decisions with confidence. This training provides you with the basic knowledge you need to analyze your company's situation and your area of responsibility and derive the right measures from this.

Contents

Principles for good controlling

  • Framework conditions for effective and efficient controlling.
  • Controlling as the focus of commercial management.
  • Cooperation between managers and controllers.

Financial Accounting

  • KPIs for top and middle management:
    • Performance management: gross profit, EBIT, EBITDA, cash flow, free cash flow.
    • Value Based Management: ROI, EVA, ROCE, WACC.
    • Working Capital Management: DPO, DSO, DIO, WCI.
  • KPI quick check at Group, subsidiary, profit center, organizational unit, project, order and customer level.

Management Accounting

  • Cost accounting systems suitable for decision-making and management.
  • Meaningful cost accounting tools.
  • Internal cost allocation, allocation models and prices, allocations.
  • Calculation methods in industry and services.
  • Profit center income statement, sales controlling.
  • Multidimensional income statement by product, customers and region.
  • Contribution margin-based decision calculations.

Planning/Budgeting

  • Planning, budgeting, forecasting:
    • Process for successful management.
    • Budgeting: OPEX and CAPEX.
    • Role of managers in the budgeting process.
  • Target agreement: e.g. with Objectives and Key Results OKRs.
  • Investment controlling - business cases.
  • Interlocking of strategic and operational planning.
  • Overview: Toolbox for strategic and operational controlling.

Management reporting

  • Requirements for professional reporting.
  • Management Information Design.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You will learn which truly meaningful information you should obtain from your accounting and controlling departments.
  • You will learn all the important basics of controlling and gain confidence in the controlling figures in your area of responsibility.
  • You will be able to determine the most important controlling indicators and interpret their meaning correctly.
  • You will be a competent contact for controllers.

Methods

Teaching the theoretical basics through lecture, discussion and many case studies.

Recommended for

Managers from all areas of the company who have no basic business training or want to refresh their passive business knowledge.

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Mondragon Assembly GmbH, Stockach

"The speaker conveyed the topic well!"

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Hermes Logistik GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg

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"Very good practical relevance!"

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Pan Dacom Networking AG, Dreieich

"The training content was really well prepared."

Stefan Stein
Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbH

"I particularly liked the practical relevance."

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Motul Germany GmbH

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Controlling provides the basis for strategic planning

The benefits of operational controlling for strategic planning In the wake of globalization and the associated perceived and actual economic crises, many companies feel the need to maintain control on the one hand, and on the other to initiate sound strategic planning that is as close as possible to the real developments of the company and the environment. The [...]

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Controlling provides the basis for strategic planning

The benefits of operational controlling for strategic planning In the wake of globalization and the associated perceived and actual economic crises, many companies feel the need to maintain control on the one hand, and on the other to initiate sound strategic planning that is as close as possible to the real developments of the company and the environment. The [...]

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24.07.2025
Munich
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07.10.2025
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