Introduction

This leading-edge seminar programme is a must for all those who would like to attend a course that comprehensively deals with all the key topics of strategic management, financial planning, and financial management. It is also for those who wish to sharpen up their financial management skills, or who wish to refresh or update the skills they already have.

This course brings together two most of the most important areas of financial management:

• Understanding Finance to Influence Strategic Decisions
• Financial Analysis
• Planning and Control.

Course Outline

• Strategic decision-making, financial planning, forecasting and budgeting
• The financial statements and their links with financial planning, budgeting and decision-making
• Ratio analysis of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows
• Traditional costing, and activity based costing (ABC), budgeting (ABB) and management (ABM)
• Financing decisions, capital structure optimisation, and weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
• Performance measurement systems including budgeting and budgetary control, and the linking of KPIs to strategies using a balanced scorecard
• Interest rate and foreign currency exchange rate risk exposures, and financial risk management
• Capital project investment appraisal using discounted cash flow (DCF), business valuations, acquisitions and restructuring.

Course Objective

• What is the exact nature and scope of the business problems to be analysed?
• Which specific variables, relationships, and trends are likely to be helpful in analysing problems?
• Are there possible ways to obtain a quick ‘ballpark’ estimates of likely outcomes of decisions?
• How precise an answer is necessary with regard to problem-solving and decision-making?
• How reliable are available financial data, and how is uncertainty and risk likely to impact on the outcomes of decisions?
• In economic and financial analysis what are the implications and relative importance of cash flow as distinct from accounting profit?
• What limitations are inherent in financial data and the key financial statements, and how will these affect financial analysis?
• How important are qualitative judgments in the context of decision-making?

Training Methodology

The course includes numerous practical examples and real life illustrations, and participative exercises and case studies. It will be presented in a very user-friendly way to suit individuals with varying levels of financial knowledge and experience. Our aim is for this to be an enjoyable learning experience. The training methodology combines presentations, discussions, team exercises and case studies. Delegates will gain both a theoretical and a practical knowledge of all the topics covered. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result delegates will return to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned.

All delegates will receive a comprehensive manual of the course to take back to the company, which will serve as a useful source of reference in the future. In addition, all delegates will receive a CD containing additional material such as Excel models used during the course.

 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

Designed For :

This course is designed for business professionals from sales and marketing, project management, human resource and other non-financial areas that need or wish to understand the financial aspects of the strategic decision-making process. Other prospective attendees would include interns, junior financial analysts and other people active in the planning process.

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

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

Fees

 The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: