Financial Analysis Evaluation, Budgeting and Decision Making

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Course Overview

Step into financial mastery with our Financial Analysis and Strategic Performance course. If you've ever wondered how to decipher income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, this course is your key to unlocking those secrets.
 
Dive into Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) techniques, gaining the ability to make informed financial decisions that can shape the future of your business. You'll explore advanced financial concepts that will broaden your financial horizons and empower you to make strategic decisions that enhance shareholder value.
 
In addition to financial understanding, you'll develop practical budgeting skills that work in the real world and adapt to dynamic markets. Excel spreadsheets will become your trusted companions for financial analysis, from the basics to complex models.
 
Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your financial acumen – enrol today and embark on a transformative journey!

Objective:

  • Statements (income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows) 
  • Learn how to use financial statements to evaluate the financial/strategic performance of an organisation 
  • Understand discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques and their application to financial decision-making 
  • Identify key success factors, weak financial signals, and strong financial signals in your industry sector 
  • Learn how to build a budget that works and the variations 
  • Identify sources of financial and business data that provide insights into business and financial strategies 
  • Use and create EXCEL spreadsheets for financial analysis: from the basics through complex models
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Course Outline

Day 1: Getting Started with Financial Analysis

  • The role & responsibilities of financial management 
  • The relationship between accounting & finance in analysis 
  • A review of the basic financial statements and their roles 
  • Why ROI is still a good place to start 
  • Identifying key success factors in your industry sector 
  • Ratios: what they are, which ones to use, & why 
  • Financial review compared to targets and expectations 
  • Financial performance measurement systems 
  • Key accounting assumptions 

Day 2: Moving Beyond the Basics 

  • The two kinds of Free cash flow (FCF) 
  • Scenario analysis: how to calculate it & what it tells us 
  • Sensitivity analysis: how to calculate it & what it tells us 
  • Trend analysis: when is a trend a trend? What to do? 
  • Improving Return on Equity (ROE) 

Day 3: Evaluation of the Information

  • How do I interpret these details? 
  • What are the important metrics & why? 
  • Annual reports, footnotes and beyond; what can they signal? 
  • Short-term success evaluation process and measures 
  • Industry data, sources, & uses 
  • Benchmarking for evaluation purposes 
  • Calculating the results of an analysis 

Day 4: Budgeting and the Management Process

  • Strategy - direction and vision 
  • Implementing strategy - the operational planning process 
  • Budgets - the financial expression of the operating plan 
  • The purpose of budgets - control 
  • The human side of budgeting 
  • Elements of the budget framework 
  • Advantages and limitations of budgets 
  • Reporting - the key to control 

Day 5: Completing the Budget

  • Assumptions 
  • Master budget 
  • Proforma financial statements: Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement 
  • Capital expenditure (CapEx) budget 
  • Sales & marketing budget 
  • Production budget 
  • General & Administrative budgets 
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