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Financial Statement Review and Internal Controls: Strengthening Oversight, Transparency, and Financial Integrity
Course Description
This course provides a comprehensive overview of financial statement analysis and internal control frameworks. It is designed to equip professionals with the tools and knowledge to assess financial health, detect irregularities, and strengthen organizational transparency and accountability.
  • Finance and accounting professionals
  • Internal auditors and compliance officers
  • Risk management professionals
  • Senior managers and executives
  • Board members and governance committee members
  • Government and NGO financial oversight personnel
  • Interactive Lectures: Core concepts explained with real-world examples
  • Case Studies: Analysis of financial statements and control failures
  • Workshops: Hands-on exercises in financial review and control design
  • Group Discussions: Sharing experiences and best practices
  • Simulations: Role-playing oversight and audit scenarios

Day 1:  Introduction

  • Conceptual framework of accounting
  • Accounting equation
  • Double-entry bookkeeping in transaction processing
  • Accounting Cycle, i.e., analyzing, recording, classifying, summarizing.
  • Analysis and interpretation of financial statements
  • Income statement
  • Owner equity statement
  • Balance sheet
  • Cash flow statement
  • Case study.

Day 2: Financial statement analysis

  • Measuring financial performance
  • Horizontal analysis.
  • Vertical analysis
  • Ratio analysis.
  • Interpreting figures from financial statement
  • Use of financial statements for short term and long term decisions
  • Financial statements and liquidity ratios
  • Case study.

Day 3: An introduction to cost terms and purposes

  • The use of cost management information
  • Creating cost-aware organizations
  • understanding accounting
  • Management account versus financial accounting
  • Cost behaviors in Cost-Volume-Profit scenarios
  • Review of some key cost concepts
  • Product vs. Period costs
  • Direct and Indirect Costs
  • Cost behavior: Fixed and Variable Costs
  • Problems and Examples
  • Day 4: Different Approached to Planning and Budgeting
  • The Basic Framework of Budgeting
  • Advantages of Budgeting
  • Responsibility Accounting
  • Choosing a Budget Period
  • The Self-Imposed Budget
  • Preparing the Master Budget
  • Fixed and flexed budget (static and flexible budget)
  • Integrate continuous improvement into variance analysis.
  • Problems, Case Study and Exercises

Day 5: cost analysis

  • Price and volume effects within variance analysis: state of the art
  • Responsibility centers: cost, profit, and investment
  • Measuring responsibility center performance
  • Segment reporting internally and externally
  • Cost-Volume-Profit analysis and pricing decisions.
  • Breakeven point and managerial decisions.
  • Special order decisions.
  • Make or buy.
  • Case study.

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
ACC195-02
2026-04-06
Amsterdam
USD 6950
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ACC195-03
2026-07-12
Dubai
USD 5450
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ACC195-04
2026-09-27
Doha
USD 5450
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ACC195-05
2026-11-22
Dubai
USD 5450
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