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Course Overview

Accounting & Finance are the language of business; understanding and applying this language to your business and to business in general remains the single most valuable competence of management. Prepare yourself by enhancing your personal competence in financial analysis of the past, problem evaluation of today, and budgeting for the future. This programme will challenge you to:

Learn how to use financial statements to evaluate the financial / strategic performance of an organization
Understand discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques and their application to financial decision-making
Use ratios to quickly pinpoint areas of concern
Identify key success factors, weak financial signals, and strong financial signals in your own industry sector
Learn the metrics used by the world’ leading companies, how to use them, & why
Confidently project your firm’s future performance through real-world budgeting

Course Objective

Learn how to understand the content of, and relationships between, financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows)
Learn how to use financial statements to evaluate the financial/strategic performance of an organization
Identify key success factors, weak financial signals, and strong financial signals in your own industry sector
Define the value creation/destruction process in mergers and acquisitions from the market perspective and signals to management from the market
Learn how to build a budget that’s works and the variations
Identify sources of financial and business data that provide insights into business and financial strategies
Enhance personal networks of similarly minded high potential personnel

Who Should Attend?

Financial professionals from all sectors, who wish to test their high performance and high potential knowledge, skills, and attitudes will benefit from attending this training session
Similarly other Professionals and Functional personnel, who wish to refresh their financial knowledge base, will obtain a more integrative financial overview

Course Outline

Getting started with Financial Analysis (what has happened so far)
Moving beyond the basics in financial analysis
Evaluation of the information (where we are today)
Budgeting and the Management Process (the future)
Completing the budget using the tools we have learned

Training Methodology

Presentation & Slides
Audio Visual Aids
Interactive Discussion
Participatory Exercise
Action Learning
Class Activities
Case Studies
Workshops
Simulation

Terms & Conditions

ACTrain reserves the right to alter the Course Schedule without Prior Notification, Fees Quoted are Subject to Terms & Conditions Outlined in ACTrain's Registration Policy

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