Language: Eng/Ar
Course Overview
Most strategic and operational business decisions rely on a fundamental knowledge of financial management. Speaking and understanding the language of finance is an essential skill for leaders and managers throughout the organization. This understanding is also a prerequisite for finance professionals who need to make day to day decisions, and for accounting professionals who wish to advance their careers.
Course Objective
Most strategic and operational business decisions rely on a fundamental knowledge of financial management. Speaking and understanding the language of finance is an essential skill for leaders and managers throughout the organization. This understanding is also a prerequisite for finance professionals who need to make day to day decisions, and for accounting professionals who wish to advance their careers.
Who Should Attend??
- Financial analysis
- Financial management
- Financial modeling
- Investment valuation
- Equity valuation
- Fixed income valuation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Course Outline
- Introduction to the three pillars of financial management
- An inside look at the key financial statements
- Why cash flow is king?
- The building blocks of financial analysis:
- Vertical analysis and common size financial statements
- Horizontal and trend analysis
- Liquidity analysis
- Solvency analysis
- Efficiency analysis
- Profitability analysis
- Practical applications of the time value of money using Excel
- Strategic and operational financial planning
- Overview of the financial planning process
- Understanding the sustainable growth rate
- Pro-forma financial statements and assumptions
- Building income statement projections
- Building balance sheet projections
- Modeling 'what-if'analysis
- Corporate finance, capital budgeting and cost of capital
- The capital budgeting process
- Net present value: key decision making criteria
- Internal rate of return
- Discounted payback period
- Profitability index
- Weighted average cost of capital
- Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate control
- Methods of acquisitions
- Types of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As)
- Motives for mergers andacquisitions
- The process of due diligence
- Reasons behind failed mergers
- Valuation fundamentals of financial instruments
- An inside look at common and preferred stocks
- Stock valuation principles
- The free cash flow approach
- Working capital and the financing decision
Training Methodology
- Presentation & Slides
- Audio Visual Aids
- Interactive Discussion
- Participatory Exercise
- Action Learning
- Class Activities
- Case Studies
- Workshops
- Simulation