This program will enable you to:

• Understand the importance of using appropriate financial management techniques to create and increase shareholder value in an international environment
• Appreciate the ways in which corporate behaviour impacts on achievement of corporate objectives, and the importance of corporate governance
• Identify the various categories of risk associated with foreign exchange rates and interest rates and how they may be managed and minimized
• Use and evaluate the various techniques of capital investment appraisal and capital budgeting
• Develop appropriate strategies with regard to mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, and defenses against hostile takeovers
• Effectively manage cash and working capital to reduce costs and improve cash flow

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand agency theory and corporate governance
• Evaluate cost of equity and cost of debt
• Analyze risk and uncertainty with regard to company financing
• Identify exposure to risks associated with foreign exchange rates
• Identify exposure to risks associated with interest rates
• Evaluate the range of financial tools and techniques used to manage exposures to risk such as options, forward contracts and derivatives
• Understand the importance of the appropriate capital structure and dividend policy with regard to the financial strength of the business
• Evaluate capital investment projects using discounted cash flow (DCF) and other appraisal methods
• Use the methods of capital budgeting
• Use alternative methods of business valuation
• Manage working capital more effectively, and identify how the company cash flow may be improved

Non-financial and financial personnel at every level in an organization, providing a user-friendly environment to develop knowledge of international financial management

International Financial Management and Corporate Behaviour

• Balance of payments
• International trade
• Corporate objectives and financial management
• Risk and company financing
• Cost of equity
• Cost of debt
• Agency theory
• Corporate governance
• Analytical tools of strategic development
• Business life cycle
• Capital structure
• Dividend policy

Risk, Foreign Exchange Rates and Interest Rates

• Analyzing investment risk: expected values; value of perfect information (VOPI); standard deviation
• Risk and uncertainty decision rules
• Scenario, sensitivity, and break-even analysis techniques
• Risk management principles
• Talking to your bankers about managing risk
• The analytical tools to manage risk
• Developing the tools for your company
• How to minimize risk
• Exchange rate risk exposure
• Interest rate risk exposure
• Purchasing power parity (PPP) theory
• International Fisher effect (IFE) theory

Capital Budgeting

• Discounted cash flow (DCF)
• Future values and present values
• Annuities and perpetuities
• Methods of evaluating capital investment projects
• Accounting rate of return (ARR) and payback
• Net present value (NPV) versus internal rate of return (IRR)
• How do you choose which method to use?
• Equivalent annual cost (EAC) method
• Capital budgeting methods
• Capital asset pricing model (CAPM) versus arbitrage pricing theory (APT)

Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring

• Reasons and justifications for mergers and acquisitions
• Share valuation models
• Target company valuations
• Financing acquisitions
• Financial strategy in acquisitions
• Takeover bid defenses
• Shareholders, managers, employees, financial institutions
• Restructuring and reorganization strategies
• Demergers
• Privatization
• Management buy-outs (MBOs) and management buy-ins (MBIs)

Cash and Working Capital Management

• Cash flow, working capital and the operating cycle
• Managing working capital
• Inventory management
• Management of receivables
• Management of payables
• The operating cycle
• Methods of payment
• International payments
• Cash improvement
• Cash planning
• Cash management

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.

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