Course Overview

What is Financial Analysis? Financial analysis means making the assessment of the viability, stability, and profitability of a business, sub-business or project etc. It involves analyzing the financial numbers available from various sources.

Why you should attend the Financial Analysis Training Course? A good corporate financial decision starts with numbers. Most of the numbers come from financial statements prepared by accountants. However, the financial statements do not disclose all of the necessary and relevant information for decision making. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse the data depicted in the financial statements. This course is designed to assist you in the analysis of all corporate activities. These activities include the ones covered by most of the traditional analysis.

This Zoe training course will empower you in taking sound corporate financial decision based on numbers in your organization by helping you in developing your knowledge on the financial analysis.

Course Objectives

The objective of this training is to help you in acquiring deep insights into why an organization is performing well and why it is not through a broad knowledge of financial skills and applying them to a multitude of situations and recommend for improvements that will enhance the organization’s overall financial performance.

By the end of this training you will learn to:

• Evaluate capital investments, financing options and cash flows
• Evaluate business operations, processes, managers and capacity utilisation
• Use the information provided in financial statements for analysing the financial performance
• Forecast future business conditions

Training Methodology

Zoe Talent Solutions customises courses to meet the needs of our training audience. Our sessions are presented by highly experienced trainers who come with wealth of knowledge and experience. Participation is encouraged via group discussions, problem solving exercises, projects, etc.

Participants are also encouraged to share experiences, problems in using concepts and best practices from their respective organisations, which are discussed in detail by our course facilitator.

Like all Zoe Talent Solutions’ courses, we follow the Do–Review–Learn–Apply Model to deliver a fruitful learning experience.

Organisational Benefits

Organisations who get their professionals registered on this Financial Analysis Training Course, will benefit in the following ways:

• Real-time assessment of the financial position whenever needed to know the viability, stability and profitability of the business
• Identify financial strengths, weaknesses and relationships that exist in your company
• Determine whether you have sufficient liquidity to meet upcoming debts
• Reduce costs and assist in increasing your bottom line
• Compare and Match your financial statement analysis numbers over time to spot trends and variations

Personal Benefits

Individuals who register on this Financial Analysis Training Course, will benefit in the following ways:

• You can determine your company’s health and stability
• Financial data will give you an intuitive understanding of how the company conducts its business
• Find out how management involves resources and whether they use them properly
• Know whether the firm is following correct accounting procedures
• Use financial statement analysis to select the correct taxation for the company
• Enable management to correct deviations when they occur and take the necessary corrective actions

Who should attend?

• Professionals working in accounting and finance
• Financial controllers, finance managers, financial systems analysts, senior accountants, financial accountants, management accountants
• Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), finance directors and strategic planners

Course Outline

Module 1 – Introduction to Financial Analysis

• Role of Financial Analysis
• Traditional Financial Analysis
• Modern Financial Analysis

Module 2 – Evaluating Capital Investments

• Hurdle rate
• Payback period
• Net present value
• Internal rate of return
• Cash flow modeling issues

Module 3 – Evaluating Financing Options

• Types of funding options
• Cost of funding options
• Risk associated with funding options
• Control problems associated with financing options

Module 4 – Evaluating Cash Flow

• Evaluating working capital
• Making a cash flow model for a capital investment
• Creating and evaluating a cash forecast
• Incremental cash flow analysis
• Interpreting variations in cash flow

Module 5 – Analyzing the business processes

• Analysis of product/service profitability
• Analysis of production function
• Analysis of sales function
• Analysis of marketing function
• Analysis of human resources
• Analysis of computer services
• Analysis of accounting & finance
• Analysis of outsourcing function
• Reporting results to the target departments

Module 6 – Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements

• Complete Set of Financial Statements
• Financial Reporting Standards
• Balance Sheet
• Profit and Loss
• Cash Flow Statement
• Changes in Equity
• Accounting Policies and Notes
• Relationship among the Financial Statements
• Inherent Limitations of Financial Statements

Module 7 – Interpretation of Financial Statements

• Horizontal Analysis
• Vertical Analysis
• Liquidity Analysis
• Solvency Analysis
• Profitability Analysis
• Asset Management

Module 8 – Financial Forecasting

• Budgets vs Forecast
• Run Rate Concept
• Revenue Forecasting
• Forecasting cost of goods sold
• Forecasting fixed and variable costs
• Forecasting balance sheet accounts

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