Finance for Non-financial Executives
11th-14th February 2025
Live Interactive Online Workshop,The course is aimed at understanding the fundamentals of finance as needed by non-financial executives who make financial decisions or control financial risks. It provides in-depth reviews of the main issues involved in finance: understanding how businesses generate value, making use of financial statements, understanding value drivers, evaluating appropriate sources of financing, evaluating investment projects and managing operational finance in areas of revenue and cost control.
The course will empower and prepare you to be an active player in the areas of corporate planning, budgeting, contributing to investment decisions and controlling the costs of operational management. All executives are expected to make an active contribution to the value of their company. Many, whilst proficient in their respective areas of expertise within business, require deeper understanding of finance necessary to bring their performance to the next level.
As your career progresses, you will be increasingly likely to be participating in high level or board level assessment of opportunities and reviews of performance thus requiring the financial skills covered in this programme. Responding to this, the course has been specially designed to further strengthen your financial skills.
Course Format and Methodology
Sound financial management helps to preserve and generate corporate value. Corporate value is driven by the primary value drivers. Through the course we will look at how these value drivers contribute to corporate value, how they are managed and controlled, how they are represented in financial statements and how the financial information can be used for control and decision making.
The course will be delivered in a live virtual format over 4 intensive half-days. We aim to maximise your learning experience by making best use of the online meeting platform. Your expert instructor is experienced in the use of technology for delivering virtual classroom learning. You will be encouraged to interact with your instructor and peers using a variety of methods including:
- Facilitated group discussions using virtual white board, chat box and audio
- Case studies to illustrate key issues worked individually or in virtual break outs
- Polls and quizzes
We will keep presentations short and provide a workbook containing case studies, guidance material and summaries of key learning points.
Ably Led by
Alan Mayo
Consultant & Former Director, Maltway Ltd, UK
- FCA Chartered accountant from the UK
- Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors
- Thirty years’ successful professional experience in risk management, internal control, audit, accounting, financial reporting and performance management
- Worked as external auditor at PwC London and Paris for 10 years
- Co-founded the client training business of PwC London
- Has worked on a wide range of financial and performance training projects
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 6980 8567
Program Daily Schedule
For GMT-4 time zone, Daily Program starts at 09.00 and ends at 13.00, including time for tea breaks. Registration starts from 08.45 on Day 1 only.
For other time zones, kindly adjust the times accordingly.
Programme Outline
Business and finance strategy and corporate value
- Corporate vision and mission statements
- Linking business strategy tools with finance strategy
- Balanced score cards
- Value chains
- Budgeting and budget cycles
- How businesses create value – and the key value drivers
Case study: identifying the key value drivers in your organisation
Understanding financial statements and their elements
- Understanding assets, liabilities, equity, income, expense and cash flow
- The relationship and use of the statements of financial position, performance and cash flows
- Operating profit vs. operating cash flow
- Non-cash costs: depreciation and impairment
- Accruals and the importance of period end cut-off
Case study: develop a set of financial statements for a retail business, showing how day to day transactions are reflected in and impact upon the financial position, performance and cash flows of a business
Liquidity and working capital management
- Current assets vs current liabilities; what are they, how they arise, how they are reflected within financial statements
- Ratios used in liquidity management
- The cash-to-cash cycle
- Critical growth
- Using working capital ratios to assist in analysis
Case study: evaluate working capital trade-offs using the cost of capital
Liquidity, capital structure and the cost of capital
- Sources of finance and their pro’s and con’s
- The cost of debt and equity
- CAPM and WACC
- Optimizing the cost of capital
- Using analytical ratios to identify risk in the capital structure
Case study: analysing leverage and whether it is acceptable
Capital investment
- Investment appraisal, lifecycle break even and scenario modelling
- Identifying relevant cash flows
- Reappraising project economics – keeping the business case up to date
- Impact of capital projects on financial statements and making use of the information
- Using financial statements to identify whether the business is investing in its future
Case study: identify relevant cash flows and apply DCF techniques to appraise project economics
Revenue management
- Levers for maximising revenue
- Analysing variances
- Issues with revenue recognition, the timing and amount of revenue to be recognised
- Receivables and their management
Case study: identify metrics and levers to manage receivables
Cost management and control
- Cost profiles
- Cost allocation
- Controlling costs in a procure 2 pay environment
- Costs of inventory
- Break even analysis
- Variances and their analysis
Case study: how controls can fail in a P2P environment
Conclusions and wrap-up
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 6980 8567
About Your Expert Trainer
Alan Mayo
Consultant & Former Director, Maltway Ltd, UK
- FCA Chartered accountant from the UK
- Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors
- Thirty years’ successful professional experience in risk management, internal control, audit, accounting, financial reporting and performance management
- Worked as external auditor at PwC London and Paris for 10 years
- Co-founded the client training business of PwC London
- Has worked on a wide range of financial and performance training projects
Testimonials
“Alan’s training is a big help in identifying the issues to focus on for the coming year”
“A well-organized training. Alan is a good teacher who presents in-depth materials and concrete examples with easy to understand English for full understanding of what was being presented”
“Thought provoking & helpful”
“Very informative and focused on controls”
“Good discussions & real life examples”
“Useful short punchy presentations”
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 6980 8567
The topics covered are suitable for executives with human capital, economics, engineering, legal, finance, management, sales and marketing, accounting or corporate planning backgrounds, in particular those executives who are expected to:
- Interact with the finance or accounts department
- Look to develop the capacity and analyse the business as a whole
- Contribute to investment decisions
- Control the costs of operations
- Contribute to board level decisions with financial implications
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 6980 8567
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand fundamental business finance concepts; understand, analyse and interpret financial statements: Profit Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Statement
- Understand the vital difference between profit and cashflow; identify the key components of working capital and how they can be managed to improve cashflow
- Evaluate economic decisions based on an understanding of the nature of business costs and their impact on profitability
- Use analytical tools to measure and improve the performance of their own company and assess the effectiveness of their competitors
- Apply and interpret techniques for assessing and comparing investment opportunities
- Understand the role of business finance in formulating and implementing competitive business strategy; the role of budgeting as part of the planning and control process and the various approaches performance measurement
Course Format and Methodology
Sound financial management helps to preserve and generate corporate value. Corporate value is driven by the primary value drivers. Through the course we will look at how these value drivers contribute to corporate value, how they are managed and controlled, how they are represented in financial statements and how the financial information can be used for control and decision making.
The course will be delivered in a live virtual format over 4 intensive half-days. We aim to maximise your learning experience by making best use of the online meeting platform. Your expert instructor is experienced in the use of technology for delivering virtual classroom learning. You will be encouraged to interact with your instructor and peers using a variety of methods including:
- Facilitated group discussions using virtual white board, chat box and audio
- Case studies to illustrate key issues worked individually or in virtual break outs
- Polls and quizzes
We will keep presentations short and provide a workbook containing case studies, guidance material and summaries of key learning points.
Pre-course Questionnaire
A pre-course questionnaire will be sent to you upon your registration which will allows you to raise your specific areas of interest. The trainer will review and analyze these in advance and address them during the workshops, seeking to fully satisfy your learning needs.
Certificate of Achievement
Upon the successful completion of this course, you will receive a Certificate of Achievement bearing the signatures from both the Trainer and the Organizer. This Certificate will testify your endeavour and serve towards your professional advancement.
For a copy of the FULL AGENDA, please send email to: hayat@neo-edge.com
Or please call us at Tel: +65 6980 8567
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