FINANCE & ACCOUNTING ESSENTIALS FOR NON-FINANCE PROFESSIONALS (HRDF Claimable) Download Programme Flyer

This workshop is specifically designed for professionals, managers and executives to help reinforce their understanding of key accounting and finance principles that are a part of everyday business and to raise their level of financial awareness. The workshop will be delivered in an easy-to-understand manner using case studies and practical illustrations. Participants will learn how to read and interpret financial statements, assess the viabilities of new business opportunities, as well as appreciate how shareholders values can be created. In addition, the trainer will equip the participants with working knowledge of pricing and costing, as well as how accounting information can be used for effective management control and motivate performance.

Professionals, managers and executives involved in business activities with financial implications. This workshop is not for Accounting or Finance specialists.

Session Topics

Understanding and Analyzing Financial Statements

• Basic principles and common terms explained
• The processes in accounting and how numbers are generated
• Salient features of the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statements
• Assessing financial health
• Accounting manipulations and how to detect them

Corporate Finance and Investment Evaluation

• Bird’s eyes view of raising funds and cost of capital
• Using Discounted Cash Flow analysis to financially evaluate business opportunities
• Creating shareholders’ wealth and valuation of companies

Costing and Pricing

• Costing – the basics
• Contemporary approaches in cost management
• Using marginal analysis for competitive pricing
• Target costing and continuous improvements
• Pricing in the new marketplace

Performance Management

• Responsibility accounting – rewarding those who perform
• Cost centre, profit centre and investment centre
• Use of accounting information for controlling and monitoring performance
• Contemporary strategic management approaches – fads or proven tools?

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Become familiar with the different types of financial reports, cash flow, and investment analyses
• Learn to adeptly read and assess financial statements
• Understand how the numbers are generated, how they can be manipulated, and which ones to rely on for making informed decisions
• Understand the core financial tools used to evaluate business opportunities and assess financial risks
• Appreciate how funding decisions can affect the performance of companies
• Learn key accounting tools for making costing and managerial decisions
• Apply the principles of accounting in making marketing and pricing decisions
• Learn how to assess company or division performance by interpreting financial data intelligently
• Appreciate how the performance of the company could be improved by using strategic management approaches

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING FOR THE NON-FINANCIAL MANAGER (HRDF Claimable)

Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager provides a rock-solid foundation in the core language and principles of financial analysis and decision making. In a straightforward and easy-to-understand manner, the course covers the essential concepts of how financial data is generated, reported, and used – including terminology and principles, financial statements, distinctions between income and cash flow, and valuation. Participants will learn how to become a more discerning reader of financial information and gain a practical understanding of how financial data is used to make busines decisions or evaluate an organisation’s past, present, and future performance.

This “fundamentals” course is an excellent foundation for anyone new to financial concepts and techniques or for any executive who wants to update his or her knowledge of basic finance and accounting. It is particularly applicable to individuals whose backgrounds are in creative, scientific, or technical fields.

Selected Session Topics

- Accountingterminology and underlying concepts

- The role of various financial statements

- Distinguishing income from cash flow

- The accounting process

- The quality of earnings

- Financial decision making

- Analysis of financial reports

- Learn to adeptly read and assess financial statements.

- Understand how the numbers are generated, how they can be
  manipulated, and which ones to rely on for making informed
  decisions.

- Become familiar with the different types of financial reports,
  cash flow, and investment analyses.

- Understand the core financial tools used to evaluate business
  opportunities, assess financial risks, and communicate your
  ideas to others.

- Gain exposure to diverse financial approaches, including
  methods of valuation and ways to use hedging and derivatives
  to reduce risk exposure.

STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLANNING (HRDF Claimable)

All to often organisations operate on a very ad-hoc and reactive basis. This normally means that they are failing to optimise their performance. Having clear strategies in place, recognising potential future problems, and enabling pre-emptive action to be identified and actioned is something that all organisations can benefit from. This course will enable individuals to evaluate the main facets of the organisation and therefore to be able to create a planning framework for the future and so capitalise on the strengths of the organisation.

Anyone who has been asked to put together a strategic plan. All personnel involved in, or wishing to gain a better understanding of, the planning process.

Selected Session Topics

- Management responsibilities – planning, decision
   making, control

- Levels of management (Strategic, Tactical, Operational)

- The Mission Statement

- Strategic objectives (SMART)

- Stakeholders – Power & Interest

- The position audit

- Environmental analysis

- SWOT and corporate appraisal

- Strategic choice

- Strategy implementation

- Control & review – GAP Analysis

- Freewheeling opportunism

- Know how to assess the current position.

- Learn how to identify future strategies.

- Discover why organisations fail or fail to grow.

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT: CREATING CORPORATE VALUE (HRDF Claimable)

Enterprise Risk Management: Creating Corporate Value is one of the first executive programmes to provide strategies for using risk management as a lever for increasing company value. The programme bridges the gap between corporate finance and risk management.

The course is designed for senior executives from both financial and non-financial firms who have significant managerial responsibility for finance, risk, and corporate governance. This includes leaders of business units with risk and financial responsibilities, as well as corporate directors, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CROs, treasurers, and members of their staff.

Selected Session Topics

- The risk financing decision

- Conventional capital structure and risk management
   theories

- The capital structure of a firm

- Responsibility for risk and capital decisions

- Learn how to develop a “risk map” to identify and manage the
   complete set of risks facing a company across all operations.

- Make wiser corporate finance decisions by understanding how
   enterprise risk factors impact capital structure.

- Use risk management as an additional lever to create
   shareholder value.

- Gain a more strategic perspective on risk management, and
   become more aware of the risks that could create or destroy
   value.

- Assess whether investments in risk mitigation, such as
   insurance, actually build or erode value for the organisation.

- Understand your true cost of capital, and better deploy capital in
   light of risks.

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FOR NON-ACCOUNTING MANAGERS (HRDF Claimable)

Accounting is the language of business. Finance is its fuel. Familiarity with the principles and practice of accounting and finance is indispensable for professionals who need to function within multidisciplinary working teams.

The objectives of this two-day workshop is to equip non-accounting managers with the knowledge and skills needed for understanding the accounting and financial processes within the organization, appreciating fundamental accounting concepts, understanding and analyzing financial statements, using costing and managerial accounting tools, undertaking basic financial calculations and evaluate investment proposals.

Participants will appreciate the managerial aspects of accounting and finance through facilitation by a professional trainer who has numerous years of experience in senior accounting and finance roles.

• Non-Accounting managers and executives who need to grasp the managerial aspects of accounting and finance for corporate effectiveness
• Technical Specialists in Engineering, Information Technology and Applied Sciences
• Sales and Marketing Managers
• Human Resources Managers
• Business Development Managers

After attending this 2-day workshop, participants will:

• Appreciate the functions of business finance in evaluating investment proposals
• Be familiar with financial mathematics
• Evaluate investment proposals using the ROI, Payback and the Net Present Value methods
• Be familiar with the managerial aspects of management accounting and costing
• Know how to undertake Cost-Volume-Profit analysis using Microsoft Excel
• Know how to derive cost functions using Microsoft Excel
• Understand the budgeting, planning and performance management processes within organizations
• Understand the differences between financial accounting and management accounting
• Understand fundamental accounting concepts and principles
• Be comfortable interpreting financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statements)
• Be able to analyze important financial ratios
• Understand the basics of share valuation techniques