This training is designed to enable delegates to make corporate financial decisions in an increasingly volatile international marketplace to increase profitability, maintain liquidity, and reduce financial risk.
The module follows the growth of a company from the development of a strategic corporate financial plan, the raising of finance, the preparation and management of budgets to support the plan, the management of financial risk, and ultimately the measurement and evaluation of performance.
Develop effective corporate financial plans aimed at maximizing return and minimizing risk
Evaluate the various methods of finance and make successful capital investment decisions
Prepare, manage and control budgets to support the corporate financial plans
Identify and manage financial risk effectively
Measure and manage performance effectively
Create opportunities for your personal development and increased financial awareness
Understand today’s major issues in international corporate finance and budgeting
Develop their professional skills, powers of analysis, evaluation, and decision-making.
Make improved finance and capital budgeting decisions, which will increase their importance to your organization.
Liaise effectively with other departments on matters of finance and budgeting
Identify areas in which they may be able to contribute to improvements in the financial performance of your company which will help improve your career development.
Financial Personnel
Financial Decision-Makers
Financial Planners & Analysts
Managers involved in planning and decision-making
Persons with aims to work in finance-related fields.
Persons involved in risk management
Strategic Planning
The Objective of the Firm – meeting Shareholder & Stakeholder Objectives
Agency Theory – the relationship between Shareholders & Management
Creative Accounting and the Case of Enron
Preparing a Strategic Plan
Financial Management & Financial Planning – the Scope, Role & Responsibilities of Financial Management
Preparing a Financial Plan – The Master Budget
Forecasting Future Cash-flows
Time Series Analysis
Correlation & Regression
Financial Modelling
Sources of Finance – Long Term & Short Term
Evaluation of the Types of Finance
Equity Finance
Debt Finance
Hybrid Finance & Financial Engineering
The Dividend Decision
The Cost of Capital
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
The Capital Investment Process
Payback
Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
Net Present Value (NPV)
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Capital Investment Appraisal
Capital Rationing
Definition of Budgets
The Budgetary Process
Types of Budgets
Fixed
Flexible
Incremental
Zero Based
Activity-Based Budgets
The Purpose/Benefits & Problems/Limitations of Budgets
Setting/Implementing Effective Budgets - Eliminating the Problems
Budgetary Control
Responsibility Accounting and Absorption Costing
Activity-Based Budgeting/Costing (ABB, ABC)
Variance Analysis
Cost Behaviour & Break-Even Analysis
Sensitivity/What-If Analysis
What-If Analysis combined with Du-Pont Analysis
Cash VS Profit
The Cash Conversion Cycle
Calculating and Managing the Cashflow Cycle
Cash Flow Ratios
Working Capital
The Cost of Maintaining Working Capital
Maintaining the Optimum level of Working Capital
Working Investment Ratios
Preparing a Monthly Cash Flow Forecast
Risk Management
Types of Risk
Identifying Risk – SWOT Analysis
The Major Quantitative & Qualitative Risks Facing Companies
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.