Course Overview
What is Financial Management? Financial management helps an organisation in planning and controlling the available financial resources. Financial Management supports the organisation in acquiring, financing and managing assets to accomplish its objective of maximizing shareholder’s wealth.
Why you should attend the Advanced Professional Certificate in Financial Management Course? Our Financial Management course is flexible, immersive and practical. You should attend this course if you are interested in advancing your career in financial management or gaining in-depth knowledge on financial management.
This Zoe training course will empower you in obtaining an in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of theoretical as well as practical aspects of Financial Management.
Course Objectives
The main objective of this training is to help you in acquiring in-depth knowledge in the area of Financial Management and Business Finance.
By the end of this Advanced Professional Certificate in Financial Management Course, you will be empowered to:
- Formulate and implement effective financial strategies
- Understand the key issues of financial management
- Apply knowledge of financial management in decision-making
Training Methodology
Zoe Talent Solutions takes special interest in customising our training courses to suit the expectations of our training audience. We consider the professional backgrounds and experience of our participants and design the course accordingly.
In our Classroom Training, we make use of visual presentations which are facilitated by highly experienced trainers and subject matter experts in this topic. We encourage participation through group discussions, problem-solving exercises, group activities, projects, etc.
We also encourage participants to share their experiences, concerns and best practices from their respective organisations. This is one of the many different forms of experiential learning activities introduced in our training sessions.
Like all our courses at Zoe Talent Solutions, we follow the Do–Review–Learn–Apply Model.
Organisational Benefits
Organisations who send their employees to attend this “Advanced Professional Certificate in Financial Management” program, will benefit in the following ways:
- Best practices in planning and controlling the financial resources
- Acquire, finance and manage assets to accomplish the objective of maximizing the shareholder’s wealth
- Devise and implement effective Financial strategies that gets you the results
Personal Benefits
Professionals who attend this “Advanced Professional Certificate in Financial Management” program, will benefit in the following ways:
- Advance your career in financial management
- Gain financial intelligence for the rest of our life
- Become an expert in different aspects of finances such as – business investment, budgeting, cash-flow, cost analysis, statements, asset management, asset register and even mergers and acquisitions
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 – Designing and Implementing Financial Strategy
- Strategic Decision-Making Framework
- Objectives of Financial Management
- Formulating and selecting the financial strategies
Module 2 – Risk Management
- Types of Risks faced by an organization
- Evaluation of Financial Risks
- Value at Risk (VAR)
Module 3 – Capital Structure Decisions
- Sources of Finance
- The risk associated with funding options
- Capital Structure Theories
- Designing and Optimal Capital Structure
- Control problems associated with financing options
Module 4 – Investment Decisions
- The objective of Capital Investment Decisions
- Capital Budgeting
- Investment evaluation techniques
- Selecting the best investment
Module 5 – Corporate Valuation
- Conceptual Framework of Valuation
- Asset-based valuation model
- Earnings based valuation model
- Cash Flows based valuation model
- Measuring cost of equity
- Relative valuation
Module 6 – Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Deriving synergies
- Demergers
- Divestures
- Corporate Restructuring
- Cross Border Mergers
Module 7 – Capital and Finance Markets
- Regulatory Framework of Capital Markets
- International Capital Markets
- Debt Markets
- Fixed Income Securities
- Money Market
Module 8 – Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
- Security Analysis – Fundamental and Technical Analysis
- Security Valuation
- Portfolio Analysis
- Portfolio Selection
- Portfolio Evaluation
- Portfolio Revision
Module 9 – Derivatives Analysis and Valuation
- Future Contracts
- Forward Contracts
- Options
- Swaps
Module 10 – Foreign Exchange Exposure and Risk Management
- Exchange rate determination
- Foreign currency market
- Management of transaction, translation and economic exposures
- Hedging currency risk
- Foreign exchange derivatives – Futures, forward, options and swaps
