Financial Analysis
Financial Analysis
About The Course:
Master financial analysis and keep your profit outlook right on the money.
Accurate financial analysis is a fundamental element of growth, strategy and overall success. Understanding how to use financial indicators and benchmarks allows you to allocate resources and evaluate potential projects for maximum return-on-investment. Financial analysis takes the guesswork out of the planning process and enables you to keep tabs on how your business is performing.
If your job requires a firm grasp of financial situations, then this hands-on comprehensive course is for you. You’ll review proven analytical tools and develop a keen understanding of how and when to use them to improve your company’s profit picture
Objectives:
- Identify current vital financial indicators that are important to your organization
- Comprehend financial forecasting techniques that can enable management to make truly informed decisions
- Apply methods that can improve your company's profit picture and your stockholders' investment
- Know your firm's finances and what that means for the present and future.
Who Should Attend
- Financial analysts
- Accountants
- Project managers
- Budget analysts
- Vice presidents of finance
- Controllers and treasurers
Outline
- A Framework for Financial Statements Analysis
- The Role of Earnings in the Capital Markets
- The Information Content of Financial Statements
- The Determinants of Accounting Quality and a Framework for Assessing Accounting Quality
- What is Income? Measuring and Reporting Financial Performance
- Case studies: Twitter, Cisco
- Accounting Quality Analysis
- Adjusting Reported Financial Statements
- Deep Dive into Starbucks’ Financial Statements and Accounting Quality
- Advanced Analysis of Accounting Quality
- Detecting and Undoing Earnings Management
- Classic accounting quality cases: CUC International, Boston Chicken, Enron
- Financial Statements Analysis Toolkit: Analyzing Profitability, Growth, and Risk
- Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Analyses
- Deep Dive into Starbucks’ Profitability, Growth, and Risk - The Life Cycle of Income and Cash Flows
- Start-Ups vs. Growth Firms vs. Cash Cows vs. Declining Firms - Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows
- Take-aways: Using this information moving forward
Certificates
A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.
Schedule
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
- Pre and Post Test
Fees
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: