Advanced Performance Management (APM)

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A. Strategic management and value creation

  • Strategic management accounting and strategic models

  • Organisational structure, culture and change

  • Performance hierarchy, CSFs and KPIs

  • Financial performance measurement

  • Divisional and managerial performance measures

  • Non-financial performance measurement

  • Sustainability and environmental management accounting

B. Performance optimisation

  • Budgetary planning and control

  • Performance, reward and human resource management

  • Management styles, accountability and behavioural effects

  • Value chain, VBM, ABM and business process re-engineering

  • Quality and cost management techniques

  • Performance measurement in service businesses

  • Not-for-profit organisations and value for money

  • Complex business structures, alliances and SLAs

C. Performance reporting

  • Evaluating management reports

  • Data visualisation techniques

  • Misleading presentation of numerical data

  • Narrative commentary in performance reports

D. Data science and technology for performance and insights

  • IT developments and performance management systems

  • ERPS, KMS and CRMS

  • Data silos, systems security and lean information

  • Big data and data science methods

  • Methods of data analysis and regression

  • Machine learning, AI and data ethics

E. Professional skills

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