Financial skills and knowledge are necessary for all managers in all organizations. A more challenging business and economic climate and an increase in financial delegation is making this even more so.
Many senior professionals miss formal training in finance and often feel uncomfortable when discussing financial matters with their peers and financial professionals. This interactive and engaging program addresses these important issues.
At the end of this conference the participants will be able to:
Read and interpret financial statements
Analyze business performance
Contribute to cash and working capital management
Build budgets and Manage costs and budgets
Present business cases and utilize financing techniques to improve decision making
Understand the basic concepts of finance as it relates to their businesses
Interpret their organization's financial signals
Think and speak the language of finance
Read and understand balance sheets and profit-and-loss statements
Understand how to control and manage a companies cash flow
All Staff with Financial Responsibility
Finance Professionals who might benefit from a refresher
Those involved in Business Decision-Making
Managers anticipating Career Development
Strategy and Planning Professionals
Corporate Communication and Investor Relations Professionals
Employees who want to gain great knowledge to improve their career
Accounting Terminology and Policies
Accounting as an information system
The accounting equation- what does it mean
Generally accepted Accounting Principles
Differentiating between cash and accrual basis accounting
Basic cash flow statements
Walking through an Annual Report
The annual report package
The role of the external auditor
The accountant’s report and auditor’s opinion
Preparing income statement & balance sheet
Financial and liquidity ratios
The cash conversion cycle
Working capital management
Profitability and gearing ratios
Du Pont Formula
Financial & Non-financial analysis
Credit analysis
Z- Scores and credit ratings
Bank lending decisions
Understanding and working with costs
Plan for cost reduction and profit improvement
Fixed and variable costs income statement
Break-even analysis
Contribution margin
Costing approaches – Full Absorption, Marginal, ABC
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.