Finance For Non-Finance Professionals

Duration :

2 days ( 9am – 5pm )

Medium :

English & Bahasa Malaysia

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Who should attend:

• Directors
• Managers

• Executives at all levels who use financial information in the course of their work but do not have any specialized training in understanding financial information.

 

 

 

 

• After completing this program, participants will able to :

• Understand key finance and accounting terms and the logic behind them

• Understand financial statements easily

• Analyze and interpret financial statements

• Demonstrate the impact of operation decision on their company’s financial statements

• Use cost and financial performance data to make better operational decisions

• Assess the financial strength of the company’s customers. Suppliers and competitors

• Manage the financial aspects of their department or unit effectively

 

 

The program is highly interactive with a balance of lectures, exercises, case study and video. All participants are requested to bring along their calculator

 

 

 

DAY 1

Business Overviews and the Value of Financial Knowledge & Introductions to concepts,

Conventions & Regulations

Introduction to business start-ups and assets and liabilities

• balance sheets / cash flow statements (including the relationship between each statement, management report, notes to financial statement, auditors reports etc

Understanding Concepts in Group Accounts

• understanding of basic principles of consolidation, differentiating group financial and company financial statements

Exploring Key Items in Financial Statements Relevant for Analysis

• concepts in financial statements and to understand the interrelationship of these items i.e. fixed assets, current assets, liabilities, long terms liabilities, working capital cycle, share capital and re-serves, dividend policy & treatment in financial statements, recurring & non-recurring items

Analyzing and Interpreting Company Account using Basic Analysis including Trend and Ra-tios. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of Accounting measures of Performance

• items in financial statements using ratios and how to interpret the ratio e.g. profitability margins – EBITDA margins, EBIT margins, return on equity, return in assets, dividend yield, liquidity ratio (current ratio, stock turnover, trade debtor days, trade creditors days, debt ratios, debt to eq-uity, interest cover)

DAY 2

Video Case learning

Working Capital Management

• Critical Issues in Working Capital Management
• The Importance of Cash cycle and forecasting

Management Accounting and the importance of Cost, profit and Breakeven

• The importance of Management Accounting
• The difference between absorption Costing and Marginal Costing
• Transfer pricing
• Breakeven point analysis
• Cost, volume and profit analysis

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Budget stages explained and forecast
• Why budget and forecast?
• How to budget the key elements?
• Budget objective and company culture
• Budget systems and techniques

Capital expenditure and investment Appraisal

• The time value of money and forward investment
• Payback periods
• Discounted cash flow, net present value (NPV)
• Internal rate of return (IRR)
• Hurdle rate determination

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