Financial Strategy: Essential Finance Management Skills

Introduction:

This program provides an understanding of the essential fundamentals of corporate finance, financial strategy, and financial management. Modern practical examples are presented together with the theoretical principles to make the theory come to life. The overriding objective of this conference is to present many integrated and powerful principles to help develop analytical skills and the decision-making capacity of the participants.

Targeted Groups:

Strategy, Budgeting and Planning Managers
Finance and Treasury Professionals
Capital Investment Managers and Analysts
Investment Analysts and Advisers
Employees who want to gain great knowledge to improve their career

Conference Objectives:

At the end of this conference the participants will be able to:

Use and evaluate the various techniques of capital investment appraisal
Develop appropriate financial strategies
Relate financial strategy to business strategy
Effectively manage cash and working capital to reduce costs and improve cash flow
Appreciate the importance of using the appropriate financial strategy to create shareholder value above market expectations
Consider how corporate behavior impacts on the achievement of corporate objectives, and the importance of corporate governance
Understand financial strategy relating to stages of corporate development and capital structure
Use and evaluate the various techniques of capital investment appraisal
Manage cash and working capital to reduce costs and improve cash flow
Understand how to measure their contribution to the creation of value for the shareholders of the business
Look at the capital structure and financial strategy in terms of the life cycle of the business, and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)

Targeted Competencies:

Financial strategic thinking
Understanding financial statements
Financial analysis
Working capital management
Preparing operating budgets
Making capital budget decisions
Financial decision making
Cost management
Value management

Conference Content:
Unit 1: Financial Strategy and Corporate Behaviour:

Corporate Objectives and Financial Strategy
Financial Statements – Analysis and interpretation (Part 1)
Risk and Company Financing
Cost of Equity and Debt Capital
Agency Theory
Corporate Governance
Financial Statements regulatory

Unit 2: Financial Strategy and Stages of Corporate Development:

Financial analysis – Analysis and interpretation (Part 2)
Strategic Development – Analytical Techniques
Du Pont Analysis
The Business Life Cycle
Capital Structure and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Dividend Policy
Cash & Working Capital
Working capital ratios
Z scores & Credit Ratings

Unit 3: Costs & Value Management:

Cost and Value
Cost Analysis and control
Strategic approaches to cost reduction and cost management
Cost Structure and breakeven
New theories and practices in cost analysis. control and management
Value management
Value-based pricing
The value chain
Financial strategy and integrated cost/value analysis

Unit 4: Budgeting, Planning, and Business Strategy:

Strategy models
Business Strategy related to financial strategy
Planning and budgeting models
Linking budgets to business and financial strategy
Build Managing
Delegating budgets effectively
Beyond Budgeting

Unit 5: Capital Investment Decisions:

Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Evaluating Capital Investment Projects
Comparison of Alternative Methods of Investment Appraisal
Capital Budgeting

Unit 6: Restructuring, Reorganisations, Mergers, and Acquisitions:

Reasons and Justifications for Mergers and Acquisitions
Share Valuation Models and Financing Acquisitions
Financial Strategy in Acquisitions and Takeover Bid Defences
Business Restructuring and Reorganisations

Conferences

Financial Strategy: Essential Finance Management Skills

Introduction:

Targeted Groups:

Conference Objectives:

Targeted Competencies:

Conference Content: Unit 1: Financial Strategy and Corporate Behaviour:

Unit 2: Financial Strategy and Stages of Corporate Development:

Unit 3: Costs & Value Management:

Unit 4: Budgeting, Planning, and Business Strategy:

Unit 5: Capital Investment Decisions:

Unit 6: Restructuring, Reorganisations, Mergers, and Acquisitions:

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Conference Content:
Unit 1: Financial Strategy and Corporate Behaviour: