In today’s competitive marketplace, management’s focus is always on profitability. Companies that are profitable have happier customers, investors and shareholders.  Access to capital to grow and expand is always predicated on profitability. The most successful companies know how to manage overhead expenses and reduce their costs to drive profitability. 

This course focuses on how to manage, evaluate and take action to optimize overhead expenses.

 

Learning Objectives
  • Define the different types of overhead and how they impact decision making.
  • Describe how companies manage and control overhead.
  • Articulate the process for allocating overhead to cost objects and products.
  • Evaluation and discussion of the overhead variances for variable and fixed overhead.
  • Observe how to calculate overhead variances, evaluate performance and identify root causes and solutions.
Last updated/reviewed: January 16, 2023
15 Reviews (69 ratings)

Reviews

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Anonymous Author
As a heavy visual learner, I struggled a bit with the slides. The slides do a good job showing definitions, but it would be more helpful to show all of the variance calculations with more labeling. There are three slides that have calculations, but one of them is unclear, and there likely need to be several more.
Member's Profile
This was academic in tone. People in mfg facilities don't use these terms and this could be improved by making the jargon tailored towards that audience. Frankly, using these terms is what frustrates management about accountants, of which I am one.
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Anonymous Author
GOOD OVERVIEW. Definitely wanna dive more in depth of the different material and do you have some follow questions on how it pertains to my business. But definitely help and is a good starting point.
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Anonymous Author
Some important concepts were brushed by, while others were too thoroughly reviewed. I did learn about production volume variances though and in a services industry, that was interesting.
5
Member's Profile
Good overview of management accounting. Presenter was thorough, defined key terms, and provided illustrations.
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Anonymous Author
Good introductory class (or refresher) for management of overhead costs. I liked the review questions.
5
Anonymous Author
Excellent course. Very well developed, prepared and presented with practical examples and insights.
5
Anonymous Author
Well presented and explained with examples. The whole topic is covered within a short time span.
5
Anonymous Author
Like the instructor. He is concise and explains things very well.
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Anonymous Author
Informative presentation on learning about company's overhead.
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Anonymous Author
This course makes you do some hard thinking..good course
4
Anonymous Author
good review of the basics for overhead accounting
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Anonymous Author
Good examples and diagrams in the slides.
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Anonymous Author
Good slides, pretty good presentation
5
Member's Profile
Loved the instructor.
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Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational

No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.

Education Provider Information
Company: Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
Contact: For more information regarding this course, including complaint and cancellation policies, please contact our offices at (408) 400- 3993 or send an e-mail to .
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  Course Overview CPE
Course Syllabus
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  4:11PREVIEW: Introduction to Managing and Controlling Overhead Costs
Overhead
  Types of Overhead4:53
  Managing Overhead5:44
  Allocating Overhead2:12
  Evaluating Overhead16:58
Variance
  Production Volume Variance6:22
  Root Causes9:04
Conclusion
  Summary1:00
Continuous Play
  Managing and Controlling Overhead Expenses52:24
SUPPORTING MATERIALS
  Slides: Managing and Controlling Overhead CostsPDF
  Managing and Controlling Overhead Costs Glossary IndexPDF
REVIEW & TEST
  REVIEW QUESTIONSquiz
 FINAL EXAMexam