Length: 4 Days
Telecom Pricing, Cost Analysis, Fraud and Audit Workshop
Telecom Pricing, Cost Analysis, Fraud and Audit Workshop is a 4 day special program covering he key concepts of practical telecom pricing, cost, financial analysis, fraud, audit and management. Participants will learn to perform price and cost analysis, financial modeling, fraud detection and prevention, and audit to determine price reasonableness in accordance with telecom authorities. This course is designed for personnel involved in establishing or modifying the price or cost of telecom services and products.
Who Should Attend?
Telecom financial analysts, cost accountants, cost analysts, budget analysts, systems analysts, auditors, fraud specialists, accounting managers, and financial planners.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, the participant will:
- List financial terminology applied to telecom service providers
- Explain telecom operators’ cost, financial and pricing models, fraud and audit principles
- Determine how cost analysis shall be used and applied
- Explain telecom financial analysis and performance measurement
- Describe the role of telecommunications regulatory authorities, operating companies applied to cost and price Analysis
- List telecom price and cost ratio analysis techniques
- Describe best practices for telecom budgeting and forecasting
- Summarize telecom project analysis and evaluation
- List telecom cost and pricing Key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Evaluate effective telecom financial management and cost control
- Calculate new telecom service and product ROI
- List cost related labor and support services
- Negotiate telecom service cost analysis, financial techniques and contract audit
- Calculate a telecom cost objective and a price/cost objective
- List steps in financial analysis and modeling for project planning processes and financial projections
- Review proven financial analytical tools and understand how and when to use them
- Describe techniques to improve your organization’s profit picture by making sound business decisions
- Determine pre-negotiation position applied to different stakeholders using cost and financial calculations
- Use best practices in budgeting, forecasting, project evaluation and analysis
- Master the processes of telecom pricing, financial management and cost
- Control and strategies for telecom tariffing and estimation of cost of network services
- Describe financial analysis and modeling for services. infrastructure, network operations, IT, legal, competition, sales and marketing
- Suggest modifications to telecom price or cost to assure reasonableness
- Describe fraud detection and prevention principles
- Review telecom audit guidelines
Workshop Topics and Sessions
- Fundamentals of Telecom Cost and Pricing
- Fundamentals of Telecom Financial Analysis
- Introduction to Telecom Cost Analysis
- Applying Price-Related Factors to Telecom Products and Services
- Advanced Techniques for Telecom Budgeting, Cost and Price Analysis
- Advanced Telecom Cost Modeling, Pricing and Financial Analysis – Methodologies
- Telecom Fraud
- The Evolution of Fraud
- Subscription Fraud
- Internal Fraud
- Partnership and B2B Fraud
- Fixed Network Fraud
- Mobile Network Fraud
- Prepaid Fraud
- Roaming Fraud
- IP Fraud
- Fraud Detection and Prevention
- Data Mining, AI and Deep Learning Applied to Fraud Detection and Prevention
- Telecom Accounting and Auditing Review
- Financial Statements
- Business Processes and Accounting
- Technology and Accounting Audit processes
- Telecom Auditing & Optimization
- Voice, video and Data Service Adult
- Analyze Telecom Usage
- Customer Service Records (CSRs)
- Call details records (CDRs)
- Telecom Service Verification Workshop