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Don't miss your chance to attend this popular one day workshop: Costing and pricing techniques 12 October, LAHQ, London More and more organisations are operating under purchaser or provider internal trading arrangements and/or market testing, or comparing and contrasting their costs with other providers. As a manager you may now find yourself in a position where you have to justify outcomes achieved against resources, or having to quote prices for the use of your library/information units' services. How can this event help you? It will help you use costing and pricing techniques to manage your service successfully including: * identifying costs of your services * evaluating the difference between cost and price * setting prices * identifying key management issues involved when working within the purchaser/provider split, internal trading, market testing and competitive tendering regimes * building your confidence in costing and quoting prices for your services. By the end of the day you will be able to: * identify ways of breaking down costs and allocate them to different functions * calculate hourly rates you should charge for professional advice Who will benefit from attending? Those with 36 months continuous budget management experience or those who have attended the 'Financial techniques and skills' workshop. Programme 9.00 Registration and coffee 9.30 Course and personal introductions 9.50 The difference between price and cost 10.15 How to calculate an hourly rate 10.30 Coffee 10.45 Case study: A basic hourly rate 11.15 Hourly rate case study review 11.30 Time sheet recording. Tutorial 12.00 Establishing costs of different activities. Case study and tutorial 12.30 Lunch 1.30 Establishing costs of different activities. Case study and tutorial 3.00 Tea 3.15 Establishing costs of different activities Case study review 3.45 Setting a price 4.30 Open forum and course review 4.45 Close. Comments from previous participants: "It taught me how to think in a new way I had no idea how to cost a service before this". "excellent documentation issues prior to the event, which meant we had more time to absorb some of the issues before attending" Places are limited to: 16 Fees LA Personal members £145 plus VAT (£25.37) £170.37 LA Institutional members £173 plus VAT (£30.27) £203.27 Non members £203 plus VAT (£35.52) £238.52 LA Student/unwaged members £25 plus VAT (£4.37) £29.37 To make a confirmed booking please print off the booking form below and return it by fax on 020 7323 1842. Alternatively, to make a provisional booking, please call Professional Development on 020 7636 7543 ext. 288/9. bookingform I would like to confirm a place on the following Workshop: (this constitutes a confirmed booking) Title of event: ____________________________ Date: ___/___/___ Surname: ____________________________________ First name: __________________________________ Job title: ____________________________________ Organisation: ________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ Town:________________ Postcode:______________ Tel___________________ Email: _______________ Are you a LA Member? YES * NO * Personal * Institutional * Student * Unwaged * N.B. If you are a Personal Member, but your employer is paying, they will still be charged at Personal Member rate. LA membership no: ______________________ Dietary/special requirements (sensory or physical) ___________________________________________ Payment of fee EITHER: * Please invoice. Please give name and address if different from above: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ (Payment is required within 30 days of invoice) * I enclose a cheque for: £_______________ (payable to The Library Association) * Please tick if a receipt is required OR * Please debit by credit card for: £_________ (Access or MasterCard only) Card no: __________________________________ Expiry date: _________________________________ Signature: ___________________________________ Name of cardholder:_______________________ Cancellation of a confirmed booking on the day will incur the full fee, or if received 7 working days prior to the event, 50% of the fee will be due. Please return to: Professional Development, LA Enterprises, The Library Association, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE or fax us on 020 7323 1842. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%