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Introduction

Financial skills and knowledge are vital for all managers in all organisations. A more challenging business and economic climate and an increase in financial delegation is making this even more so.

Many senior professionals miss formal training in finance and often feel uncomfortable when discussing financial matters with their peers and financial professionals.This interactive and engaging programme addresses these important issues.

Key areas covered in this program include:

Reading, interpreting and using financial statements (internal and external)
Improving business cases and decision making
Costing and presenting plans and proposals
Working more effectively with budgets
Delivering improved financial performance, profit & cash flow

Objectives

At the end of this program delegates will be able to:

Read and interpret financial statements
Analyse business performance
Contribute to cash and working capital management
Build budgets and Manage costs and budgets
Present business cases and utilise financing techniques to improve decision making

Training Methodology

The training uses an interesting mix of lively discussion, case studies and exercises, contemporary examples and videos.

We focus on the practical application of concepts and ideas. Experiences from real business situations and decisions will be used to bring concepts to life.Delegates are requested to bring copies of their organization’s accounts together with internal financial reports that they work with.

Organisational Impact

Organisations will benefit from trained managers who will:

Make better business and management decisions and cases
Mange budgets and resources more effectively
Have better regard for their impacts on:
- Profit
- Cash
- Business Risk
- Business Performance
Work more effectively with colleagues in other functions (including finance)
Identify more opportunities to improve business performance
Provide knowledge and understanding that can be shared amongst other departments of the business

Personal Impact

Participants will be able to advance their careers as a result of understanding the various subject covered. In particular they will be able to:

Understand the basic concepts of finance as it relates to their businesses
Interpret their organizations financial signals
Think and speak the language of finance
Read and understand balance sheets and profit-and-loss statements
Understand how to control and manage a companies cash flow

SEMINAR OUTLINE

DAY 1: The Basics

Accounting Terminology and Policies
Accounting as an information system
The accounting equation- what does it mean
Generally accepted Accounting Principles
Differentiating between cash and accrual basis accounting
Basic cash flow statements
Walking through an Annul Report
The annual report package
The role of external auditor
The accountant’s report and auditor’s opinion

DAY 2: How To Interpret Accounts and Financial Statement Analysis

Preparing income statement & balance sheet
Financial and liquidity ratios
The cash conversion cycle
Working capital management
Profitability and gearing ratios
Du Pont Formula
Financial & Non-financial analysis
Credit analysis
Z- Scores and credit ratings
Bank lending decisions

DAY 3 : Planning for Profit

Understanding and working with costs
Plan for cost reduction and profit improvement
Fixed and variable costs income statement
Break-even analysis
Contribution margin
Costing approaches – Full Absorption, Marginal, ABC
Standard Costing
New ideas in cost management – lean principles

DAY 4 : Budgeting in Today’s Competitive Business

The Budgeting Process
The role of budgeting
Annual budgeting process
Identifying and resolving budgeting variances
Different budgeting systems in use today
Budgeting tips and techniques
Variance analysis

DAY 5 : Cash Flow & Investment Decisions

Capital budgeting
Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Present Value
Internal Rate of Return – method
Profitability Index
Discounted cash flow

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