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Certificates: Certificate "Consultant Controlling"
Certified Business Manager" certificate -
Additional Certificates: Certificate "Microsoft Excel for advanced users"
Certificate "Fundamentals of Controlling"
Certificate "Controlling practice with DATEV"
Original SAP user certificate -
Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
SAP user certification UC_CO_S42023
Certified Business Manager -
Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 22 Weeks
Microsoft Excel for advanced users
Spreadsheet calculation with Excel (approx. 8 days)
Using Excel as a database: Selecting (auto and special filters), sorting, evaluating lists (tables)
Using functions, performing calculations with functions, getting to know references
Matrix functions: SREFERENCE, WREFERENCE, XREFERENCE
Working with names or named ranges
Creating, editing and evaluating pivot tables
Special functionalities such as conditional formats, validity rules, user-defined formats
Calculations with cell ranges (matrices)
Creating different chart types
Macro recording
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Project work (approx. 2 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Controlling basics
Introduction to controlling (approx. 1.5 days)
Controlling as part of the management process
Overview of the various controlling instruments and methods
Strategic and operational controlling
Cost accounting and cost management (approx. 3.5 days)
Introduction to cost and activity accounting
Cost element accounting
Cost center accounting
Cost unit accounting
Cost accounting systems (approx. 3 days)
Actual, normal and planned cost accounting
Partial and full cost accounting
Activity-based costing
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Corporate planning and budgeting (approx. 4 days)
budget planning
Liquidity planning
investment planning
Key figures and key figure systems (approx. 3 days)
Contribution margin
Balanced scorecard
Reporting (approx. 2 days)
reporting
BWA
Data protection in controlling
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Controlling practice with DATEV
Cost accounting with DATEV (approx. 7 days)
Creation of basic data
Creation of the cost center plan
Setting up the evaluations
Adaptation of cost accounting to operational requirements
Account allocations
Internal activity allocations and apportionments
Entering and processing batches
Displaying and printing evaluations
Setting up evaluation packages
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Business planning with DATEV (approx. 5 days)
Overview and functionality of DATEV
Basics of planning calculation
Planning strategies - setting up a planning and control system with integrated profit and liquidity planning
General planning approaches
Detailed planning options using detailed objects
Investment planning (investment and financing)
Program links
Target/actual comparison and DATEV controlling report
Evaluations: Brief overview and standard evaluations as well as planning report
Analysis and planning in accounting (approx. 5 days)
The monthly analysis
Profit analysis: comparison with previous year, target/actual comparison, industry comparison, time series presentation for trend statements
Liquidity analysis: static liquidity, withdrawal behavior, payment habits, account management, cash flow statement with cash flow calculation
Use and origin of funds
Special solutions and occasions
Determination of debt servicing capacity
Individual BWA (adaptation of the standard BWA)
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Controlling (CO) user with additional qualification in financial accounting (FI) with SAP S/4HANA
S4H00 SAP S/4HANA Overview (approx. 4 days)
Overview of SAP S/4HANA
Navigation, SAP Fiori, SAP Business Client, SAP Logon
System-wide concepts with organizational units, master data and transactions
Overview of financial accounting and logistics modules, mapping of the respective processes in SAP
Reporting, system structure and migration
SAP service offerings
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
S4F10 Business processes in financial accounting (approx. 8 days)
Overview of financial accounting
General ledger accounting, accounts payable accounting, accounts receivable accounting, asset accounting and bank accounting
Closing operations in general ledger accounting
S4F20 Business processes in management accounting (approx. 8 days)
Differentiation from financial accounting and tasks of internal accounting
Components and tasks
Organizational units and master data
Analyses, planning and planning integration
Integration of posting logic
Postings and period-end closing
S4F22 Cost center accounting and internal order management (approx. 10 days)
Organizational units, master data, event-based postings, period-end closing
Internal orders: Overview, master data, postings and period-end closing
Planning and budgeting
S4F28 Profit Center Accounting (approx. 4 days)
Profitability management, master data, actual postings, planning and transfer prices
Project work/case study, certification preparation and SAP user certification Controlling (approx. 6 days)
Management and corporate planning
Management (approx. 1 day)
Hierarchy levels
Management methods
Planning horizons
Management functions
Management control loop
Management instruments
Objectives, methods and instruments of business plan preparation (approx. 3 days)
Basics of business plan preparation
Analysis and planning tools (SWOT analysis, scenario analysis, portfolio analysis, creativity techniques)
Contract law (approx. 1 day)
Declarations of intent
Warranty and guarantee
Types of contract and their disruptions
Law on contractual defects (subsequent performance, withdrawal, purchase price reduction, compensation)
General terms and conditions (AGB)
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Commercial and company law (approx. 1 day)
Types of merchants
company forms
Commercial practices
Special features of commercial law
Commercial register and publicity
Introduction to insolvency law
Project planning (approx. 0.5 days)
basics
Resource planning
Planning steps
Errors in project planning
Environment analysis (approx. 0.5 days)
Company analysis
Industry analysis
Location analysis
Competition analysis
Marketing (approx. 3 days)
Market analysis and market segmentation
Basics of market research
Instruments of the marketing mix
Advertising and supporting instruments
Financial planning (approx. 1 day)
Overview of
Instruments
Planning investment calculation (approx. 2 days)
Basics
Investment calculation methods
Limits and problems of capital budgeting methods
Key figures
Financial planning (approx. 1 day)
Basics
Equity and debt financing
External and internal financing
Key figures
Controlling (approx. 1 day)
Tasks and objectives of controlling
Areas of controlling
Controlling instruments
Project work, certification preparation and certification examination (approx. 5 days)
Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.
After the course, you will be able to work confidently with formulas and functions as well as create, edit and evaluate large tables. You will also be able to use pivot tables and make sensible use of references. You will have the necessary specialist knowledge to strategically plan, monitor and optimize performance processes within the company. The focus of the course is on knowledge of internal accounting to ensure cost-efficient and realistic business analysis and advice. You will also be familiar with the basic management tools of controlling with SAP® and round off your professional profile with an original SAP® user certificate.
You also know how to draw up different business plans for projects and companies from an economic perspective and apply the most important economic planning and marketing tools. You have knowledge of contract law and are familiar with the content of commercial and company law as well as the basics of financial planning.
The course is aimed at people with training, professional experience or good basic knowledge in the commercial or administrative field as well as specialists in the areas of bookkeeping and accounting with knowledge of economics and business administration.
The course is also aimed at anyone who would like to acquire basic business management and planning knowledge or deepen their knowledge.
With sound knowledge in the field of controlling, you can support management, especially in larger companies. You can work in companies in almost all sectors of the economy and in public administration.
With your meaningful certificate, you prove your business planning knowledge and provide a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired to improve your career entry and advancement.
Training partner of SAP® Germany
In cooperation with the SAP training partner alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH, we will qualify you for a job in industry and business.
You are directly connected to the SAP® Germany servers and learn on the original SAP® training system (IDES) in the latest version. This gives you the necessary practical experience during the course.
All SAP user courses also conclude with the original SAP certification. Our SAP instructors are qualified SAP consultants who will provide you with intensive support and prepare you optimally for the certification exam.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face teaching via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).