This course brings together the key elements of financial statement analysis. It will enable participants to ask the right questions, see the real risks facing businesses and investors, feel more confident in their ability to comment on business activities and performance, and analyze financial health for management. These skills and the required technical knowledge will be put into practice throughout the course using interactive examples and case studies, putting theory and technique into context.
List and differentiate between the important components of basic financial statements
Explain financial statements' ratios and design Excel sheets and graphs for financial statements analysis
Give examples of creative accounting schemes and discuss the validity of the used accounting rules
Assess the quality of financial reports and evaluate the quality of the reported earnings and cash flows
Analyze the financial position and performance of a company over a period of time and draw conclusions regarding its sustainability
Forecast financial statements based on the analysis of the historical performance of a company
Chief accountants
Accounting managers
Senior accountants
Finance directors
Finance managers
Financial analysts
Financial controllers
Financial accounts managers
Heads of finance departments
Credit controllers
Corporate financiers
Credit risk analysts
Bankers, and relationship managers.
Users of financial data
Content of the annual financial report
Regional versus global standards
Non-financial elements of the annual financial report and their importance
Emotional and cognitive biases affecting analysts’ judgment
Understanding the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
Other comprehensive income components
Top-down approach for analysis
Macroeconomic factors to assess country exposure
Indicators of GDP, unemployment rates, inflation, and interest rates
Deficit-to-GDP, debt-to-GDP and GDP growth rates
Industry analysis: understanding Michael Porter's five forces shaping an industry's long term profitability
Starbucks, Apple Inc., Nike, and McDonald’s cases
Common size analysis to improve comparability
Calculating trends and growth patterns
Profitability
Liquidity
Efficiency and working capital management
Financing structure and risk
Altman Z-score to assess potential bankruptcy
Using graphical representation
Financial cosmetics and creative accounting
Signals to read from inventory balances
LIFO liquidation technique
Valuing inventory at net realizable value: looking for signals of obsolete inventory
Analyst's consideration when examining inventory
Evaluating how capitalizing versus expensing costs affect financial statements and ratios
Interest capitalization
Research and development costs capitalization
Effect of different depreciation methods on financial statements
Impairment of business units and operating segments
Revaluation of long-lived assets
The choice of operating lease or finance lease
Using special purpose vehicles for balance sheet manipulation
Stock options and stock grants instead of bonuses
Case study: creative accounting scandals of Enron, Worldcom, Parmalat
Framework for assessing a company's quality of financial reports
Potential problems that affect the quality of financial reports
Beneish model: M-score to describe the degree to which earnings are manipulated
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.