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Your Growth, Our Mission
Course Description
Finance and capital along with management and staff are the lifeblood of any business. This program focuses on the advanced skills necessary for making sound financial decisions in an increasingly competitive, volatile and global market. Skills and decisions which will enable your company to remain competitive, minimize costs, maximize revenues and also reduce/control risk. The program focuses on the key areas and skills required
The Training Course Will Highlight ?
- Financial planning and control: devising and controlling financial plans fit for the future
- Corporate finance and financial engineering: how to finance the business
- The cost of capital and capital investment appraisal: calculating and controlling the cost of capital using WACC and CAPM and maximizing the return on capital and minimizing risk by evaluating potential projects using the latest techniques
- Financial analysis: evaluate financial data
- Assess past performance
- Identify business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- Improve decision making
- Implement and evaluate performance measures
- Aid the strategic planning process
- Business valuation – mergers & acquisition decisions
Training Objective
- Financial planning and control: devising and controlling financial plans fit for the future
- Corporate finance and financial engineering: how to finance the business
- The cost of capital and capital investment appraisal: calculating and controlling the cost of capital using WACC and CAPM and maximizing the return on capital and minimizing risk by evaluating potential projects using the latest techniques
- Financial analysis: evaluate financial data
- Assess past performance
- Identify business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- Improve decision making
- Implement and evaluate performance measures
- Aid the strategic planning process
- Business valuation – mergers & acquisition decisions
Target Audience
Finance Professionals, Finance Managers, Senior Accountants, Accounting & Budgeting Personnel, Corporate Controllers, Financial Controllers, Treasury Professionals, Chief Accountants, Accounting Managers, Accounting Professionals, Financial Executives, Auditors, Financial Analysts, Bankers, Investment Bankers, Senior Accountants, Banking Professionals, Corporate Business Professionals, all accounting and finance professionals who are currently working, or seeking to work, in the financial planning, analysis, budgeting and forecasting domain within their organizations
Training Methods
Daily Agenda
Financial Planning
- Financial management & financial planning – the scope, role & responsibilities of financial Management
- Preparing a financial plan – the master budget
- Forecasting future cash-flows
- Time series analysis
- Correlation & regression
- Financial modelling
- Sensitivity/what if analysis
- What-If analysis combined with Du-Pont analysis
Corporate Finance & Financial Engineering
- Raising Finance using traditional sources of equity & debt
- Evaluating the impact of equity & debt finance
- Money market instruments & bonds
- The concept of financial engineering
- Raising finance, trading and hedging using financial engineered instruments
- The dividend decision: whether to pay dividends or not
The Cost of Capital & Capital Investment Appraisal
- The cost of capital
- Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)
- The capital investment process
- Capital investment appraisal
- Payback
- Accounting rate of return (ARR)
- Net present value (NPV)
- Internal rate of return (IRR)
- Capital rationing
- Asset replacement decisions
- Controlling the cost of capital and the use of derivatives
Financial Analysis
- The role & responsibilities of financial analysis and management
- Identifying key success factors in your industry sector
- Financial review compared to targets and expectations and variance analysis
- Financial performance measurement systems
- Ratio analysis to evaluate profitability, liquidity, operations and leverage
- Du-Pont analysis and financial modelling
- Altman and Z scores: quantitative models to assess risk
- SWOT, PEST & Porter: incorporating non-financial analysis
- The analysis and evaluation of case studies using Excel
- Assess past performance
- Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- Improve decision making relating to future
- Divisional/individual performance
- Capital expenditure
- Investment opportunities
- Implement and evaluate performance measures
- Aid the strategic planning process
Valuation, Merger & Acquisitions
- Business valuation
- Definitions of value
- Value to the investor
- Value to shareholders
- Evolution of value-based methodologies
- Creating value in restructuring and combinations
- Business valuation for merger & acquisition
- Business restructuring and reorganizations
- Management buy-outs and management buy-ins
Accreditation
BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.
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