2 days’ workshop
Introduction:
As an accountant or investment manager, your strategic investment & accounting skills is very crucial for Organisations stability, liquidity and growth. This seminar will equip you with THIS SKILL SETS.
Course Objectives
Assessing the Economic Viability of Business
Planning for Business Success
Impact of investment decision on your Financial statements (income statements, cash flow, balance sheet & statement of equity)
Linking financial ratios to swot analysis for strategic decision making process via problem solving framework
Using excel tools for investment decision making
Using relevant costing for decision making (eg, add or drop; replacement decision, pricing decision)
Forecasting Revenue & Cost & Profitability using scenario & sensitivity analysis
Managing Risks in Financial Markets
Methodology
Case Study, Group Discussion & Video.
Who Should Attend
Entrepreneurs, Bankers, Accountants, CFO, CEO, Business Managers, Marketing Managers, Supervisors, and Managers
Special Feature: NOTE: Please bring laptop along
Course outline
Day 1
Module 1: Assessing the Economic Viability of Business
Overview
Feasibility Studies
Calculation of Return on Investment (ROI)
Module 2: Statement of Cash Flows
Importance of cash flows
Financing cash flow deficiencies
Impacts on cash flow from
Signs of liquidity problems
Exercise
Module 3: Analysis of Financial Statements
Trend Analysis
Common Size Analysis
Profitability Ratios
Efficiency Ratios
Liquidity Ratios
Gearing Ratios
Module 4: Capital Investment
Importance of investment decision making
Forecasting Relevant Project Cash Flows
Project evaluation Techniques – Payback, NPV, IRR
Excel applications – using the payback, NPV and IRR functions
Accepting or Rejecting Projects
Day 2
Module 5: Cost Reduction Success Story
How to target saving for your organization
Module 6: Managing Risks in Financial Markets
Analysing the potential risks facing an organization
Mitigating controls
Weight the financial impact
Cost/benefit decision analysis
Risk Model software
Module 7: Forecasting Revenue & Cost & Profitability
Build in Ramp Up factor
Factor in Compound Annual Growth Rate
Scenario analysis
Exercise
Module 8: Q&A