Finance For Non-Finance Professionals (Manufacturing sector)

2 Days Workshop

Introduction

The primary goal of this workshop is to help Manufacturing professionals who have little or no knowledge in finance and accounting in developing sound financial knowledge to read and understand financial reports. Real-current problematic finance & business cases will be analyzed and scenario solutions will be discussed within the workshop.

Course Objectives                                                                                                                                   
By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • understand basic cost concepts used in business

  • Understanding CAPEX and OPEX (Operating expenditures)

  • understand basic budgeting concepts used in management planning and control

  • understand variance analysis concepts

  • calculate break-even point and target profits using the marginal costing concept

  • Appreciating Standard costing as a cost control tool

Methodology

Case Study & Group Discussion. 

Who Should Attend

Entrepreneurs, Business Managers, Marketing Managers, Supervisors, Executives and Managers and all professionals who are interested in Finance for non Finance

Special Feature:

NOTE: Please bring laptop along

Programme Outline

Day 1

Module 1: Definitions and introduction to Financial Statements (Case study)

  • Financial vs Management accounting – understanding managerial accounting

  • Making sense of financial terms (overheads, profitability, revenues, costs, depreciation, variances, inventories, financial statements) in the context of the manufacturing industry

  • Understanding Income Statement, Balance sheet & other Internal Financial reports in Process manufacturing industry and highlighting the differences compared to typical Financial statements 

  • Appreciating Cash Flow Statement as indicator of liquidity. 

  • Inventories: Finished Goods, WIP and other raw materials present in typical manufacturing environment 

  • Case study: Understanding financial Statements  

Module 2: Profit & Loss Statement 

  • How to read Profit & Loss Statement 

  • Use Profit and Loss Statement to evaluate performance 

  • Concept of margins and profit analysis 

  • Relationship between P&L statement to balance sheet 

  • Profit & Loss accounting model 

  • Why profit is different from cash 

Module 3: Cash Flow Statement 

  • Lifeblood of business – Cash Flow Statement 

  • Relationship between cash flow statement and balance sheet 

  • 3 streams of cash flow, Operating ,Investing &Financing 

  • How to determine financial health from cash flow pattern 

  • Determining if the company is using internal cash flow to finance growth or relying on external financing 

Module 4:  Improve Cash Flow & Profitability Position (Practical Case Study)

  • Applying what if analysis (goal seek)

  • Applying profitability strategy management framework

    • Formulation stage

    • Execution stage

    • Evaluation stage


Day 2

Module 5: Financial Ratios Analysis (Case Study)

  • Learn how to size up a company quickly by reading their financial ratios 

  • Liquidity 

  • Solvency 

  • Efficiency 

  • Profitability 

  • Asset Management 

  • Assessing drivers of company profitability and growth:- 

  • Operations and investment strategies : operating and investment management 

Module 6: Investment Appraisal (Case Study)

  • Calculate return on investment (ROI),

  • Calculate  net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), and payback period

  • Recommendation to proceed or reject based on financial & non-financial considerations

Module 7: Cost Structure and Behaviour

  • Importance of cost structure knowledge: Variable cost, fixed cost and semi-variable costs

  • Concept of Process costing & Job Costing

  • Cost components: Materials, labour and overheads & Product costing

  • Indirect costs: Material, labour and overheads (allocating to final products)

  • Cost control methods and techniques (area to concentrate on)

  • Understanding Product/Job costing components

Module 8: Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis & Break-Even Analysis  

  • Concept of contribution

  • Contribution sales ratio

  • Break Even analysis

  • Margin of safety 

Module 9: Budgeting 

  • Planning Process

  • Preparation Of Budgeting (Operational & financial Budget)

  • Budgeting and Human Behavior

Accounting for Fixed Assets & Asset Management

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