Available Dates
Fees
Oct-07-2024
1,735
Nov-04-2024
1,735
Dec-02-2024
1,735
5 days course
Financial Economic Decision-Making: The challenge
Financial/economic analysis practice
Understanding the value-creating company
Shareholder and corporate value
Business: A dynamic perspective
Corporate governance and the agency problem
Description: What information and data to use?
Financial statements: Nature
Financial analysis and decision-making: Context
Business Performance: Performance
Business performance and ratio analysis
Understanding Management’s point of view
Description: Owners’ point of view
Description: Lenders’ point of view
Pyramids of ratios: Ratio as a system
Financial performance analysis: Integration
Introduction to Economic value added (EVA)
Financial distress: Prediction
Financial projections: Inter-relationship
The overview of Operating budgets
Variance analysis and standard costing
Cash budgets and cash forecasts
Understanding Sensitivity analysis
Growth and dynamics of the business system
Description: Operating leverage
Analyzing Financial growth plans
Overview of Financial modelling
Investment Decisions: Analysis
Time-adjusted measures: Application
Internal rate of return (IRR) and net present value (NPV)
Understanding the Strategic perspective
NPV and EVA
Investment analysis: Refinements
Introduction: Equivalent annual cost (EAC)
Introduction: Modified internal rate of return (MIRR)
Understanding Sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, simulation and NPV break-even
The concept of Dealing with risk and changing circumstances
The concept of Managing for shareholder value
Description: Shareholder value creation in perspective
Value-based methodologies: Evolution
The concept of Creating value in restructuring and combinations
Understanding Financial strategy in acquisitions
An overview: Business valuation
Description: Business reorganizations and restructuring
Overview of Management buy ins (MBIs) and Management buy outs (MBOs)
Overview of Setting and Controlling Budgets
Introduction to Financial and Strategic Planning
Introduction and overview of management accounting and Financial accounting
Association between budget setting, strategic planning and performance measurement
Introduction to strategic and planning management
Overview of Mission, vision and objectives
Description of the planning process
Overview of External environment analysis, internal resources analysis, PESTEL and SWOT
Shareholder wealth maximization, financial strategy and value creation
Understanding Long-term and short-term financing, financial planning and modelling
Costing: Definition
Fixed costs and variable costs: Cost behavior
Understanding cost/volume/profit (CVP) analysis, contribution and break-even models
Overview: Non-traceable and traceable cost allocation
The concept of period costs and product costs
Understanding absorption costing, marginal costing, direct costs and indirect costs
Analysis of Product costing for budgetary control, performance measurement and budget setting
The costing system and activity-based costing (ABC): Refinement
Budgeting: Framework
Budget: Definition
Distinct Types of budgets and Budgeting framework
Understanding the budget process
Forecasting sales, costs and sales pricing: Qualitative and Quantitative techniques
Labour costs and depreciation: Budgeting
Description: The departmental budget
Master budget and the cash forecast/budget: Preparation
Budgeting: The human side and the behavioral aspects
Understanding Capital Budgeting, Activity based budgeting (ABB), Variance analysis and Budgetary control
Budget controlling process in your organization
Introduction to Activity-based budgeting (ABB)
Capital projects budgeting
Understanding Discounted cash flow (DCF) investment appraisal methods of internal rate of return and net present value (NPV)
Responsibility accounting and budgetary control systems
Budgeting and budgetary control: The standard costing
The concept of flexed budgets, fixed budgets, variance analysis and the reasons for variances
Broadening Performance Measurement Systems: Beyond budgeting
Integrating continuous improvement into the budget process
Budgeting: Advantages and disadvantages
Ways to improve the budget process in your organisation
Understanding the conflict between the costing system and performance improvement
Description: Performance improvement and lean thinking
Beyond the budget: What’s next?
Associating strategy with performance measurement and budgeting: The balance scorecard
Adapting and developing the balanced scorecard
Summary