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Management accounting

Cost Accounting, Budgeting, and Cash-Flow Control

Turn job costs, overhead, and budgets into decisions: price, margin, and when cash will actually arrive.

4.5(390 students)1,540 students

Created by Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obaidi

Last updated 2026-03English / Arabic

Placeholder curriculum for demonstration — topics and structure only.

Cost Accounting, Budgeting, and Cash-Flow Control
45,000 IQD125,000 IQD
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Placeholder curriculum for demonstration — topics and structure only.

This course includes

  • 9.5 total hours
  • 9 lectures
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and desktop
  • Certificate of completion
  • 30-day money-back placeholder
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What you'll learn

  • Separate direct costs, overhead, and contribution margin
  • Build a simple job-costing sheet
  • Create an operating budget and variance review
  • Link the budget to a 13-week cash forecast

Learning roadmap

  1. Block 1

    Cost anatomy

    Direct, indirect, fixed, variable.

  2. Block 2

    Jobs and margins

    Cost a project and set a price floor.

  3. Block 3

    Budgets

    Annual plan, monthly review, variances.

  4. Block 4

    Cash

    Why profit is not cash, and how to forecast it.

Course content

3 sections · 9 lectures · 9.5 total hours

  • Cost behavior in a service firmPreview10:05
  • Contribution margin in one page12:30
  • Overhead without overcomplicating it11:55

Requirements

  • Basic accounting vocabulary
  • Excel or Google Sheets

Description

Placeholder workshop. You cost a small project, budget a quarter, then watch cash lag behind profit. The point is control, not a textbook of costing methods.

Who this course is for

  • Operations managers who own a P&L
  • Accountants moving into FP&A
  • Founders pricing projects

Instructor

Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obaidi

Mustafa Mohammed Al-Obaidi

Founder of Finance Station · Co-Founder & Managing Director, CopyBooks

Entrepreneur, financial consultant, and trainer with more than 12 years across Iraqi, regional, and international companies. Founder of Finance Station and Co-Founder and Managing Director of CopyBooks, an ERP platform for accounting, finance, sales, and inventory. He has trained more than 2,400 businesses and entrepreneurs, including programs with Riyada, Orange Corners, Makers of Baghdad, KAPITA, The Station, and GIZ.