Course Code: FB2.B
Category: Finance and Budgeting
Dates, Venues & Fees:
Apr 13-Apr 24|London|$6,700.00
Sep 21-Oct 02|Virginia|$6,700.00
Duration: Two Week
Course Overview
This course is designed to prepare delegates to interpret and analyze financial statements for tasks such as credit and security analysis, lending and investment decisions, and other such decisions that rely on financial data. The course brings together key elements of financial statement analysis to help delegates develop their skills in this area and enable them to pry deeper and see the real risks facing organizations, businesses and investors. Delegates will develop sufficient understanding of the concepts and recording procedures in an informed manager. Ultimately, delegates will develop a more efficient and effective approach to researching, interpreting and analyzing financial statements.
Target Audience
This course will greatly benefit:
- Financial Risk Managers
- Professional with responsibility of making decisions with financial implications
- Business/ Project leaders
- Commercial Credit Analyst
- Commercial Loan Managers
- Corporate leaders
Course Outcome
Delegates will gain knowledge and skills to:
- Appreciate the strategic context behind modern financial statement analysis
- Analyze the impact of certain financial statement choices on key financial ratios
- Anticipate and detect deteriorating cash flow quality
- Interpret financial statements for their effectiveness, relevance and vulnerabilities
- Get to grips with the key reasons for prospective analysis
- Describe the role of the auditor and the various options available
- Recognize the importance and pitfalls of ratio analysis
- Identify many of the creative accounting techniques used by companies
- Explain the importance of the management discussions and analysis and financial statement footnotes.
Key Course Highlights
- The users of financial statements and the different market participants who analyze companies financials
- The financial implications of various operating, investing and financing decision and activities
- Read, understand, and analyze and interpret the three key financial statements in companies and non-profit organizations
- The goal of analyzing financial statements and the roles of auditors and outside regulatory bodies
- Ratio analysis in assessing an organization’s level of profitability and financial risk
- The key component of the income statements and what they are designed to measure
- The balance sheet and what they are designed to measure
- How decisions and transactions in an organization impact the financial statement
- The purpose and pitfalls of financial ratios
- The basics of forecasting future financial statements, and how to assess the impact of potential changes to business processes and financial resources