This training course is split into two modules:

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Modules I, and II back-to-back as a 2-week training course.

DAILY AGENDA

Module I: Advanced Budgeting & Cost Management

Day 1: Introduction: The Relevance of Budgeting and Cost Management within Strategy Execution
  • The Link between Strategy, Planning, Budgeting and Cost Management
  • Why Budgeting and Costing are so important to manage your company?
  • Financial & Management Accounting
  • Preparing Financial Statements & Cost Evaluation
  • Understand your Processes: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Aspects
  • Identify and Discuss the Key issues in terms of Budget / Costing for your own Organization
Day 2: The Budgeting Framework and its Role within the Management Process
  • The Role & Types of Budgets within Management Accounting
  • The Budget Process
  • Preparing the Master Budget & Departmental Budgets
  • Preparing a Project/CAPEX Budget
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of Budgets & the Budget Process: The Critical issues for Success
  • Budgetary Control
Day 3: Cost Management for Budgeting Purposes
  • Cost Classification, Concepts and Terminology
  • Fixed vs. Variable Costs: The Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Model
  • Contribution Margin Analysis
  • Estimating / Forecasting Costs
  • Calculating, Evaluating & Managing the Cost of:
    • Purchases
    • Manufacture
    • Inventory (IAS 2)
    • Working Capital
  • Improving Efficiency to Reduce Costs
Day 4: Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-control
  • Under-costing and Over-costing: The Consequences for Profitability
  • How to refine a Costing System?
  • Indirect vs. Direct costs: Traditional Cost Allocations Systems vs. Activity-Based Costing
  • Cost Drivers: Linking Resources, Activities and Management
  • Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting (ABB) and Management (ABM)
Day 5: Broadening the Performance Measurement Systems
  • Shortcomings of Traditional Approaches to Budgeting and Performance Measurement
  • Recent Best Practices: the Balanced Scorecard and Six-sigma
  • Financial Perspective and Customer Perspective
  • Internal Business Process Perspective and Learning & Growth Perspective
  • Developing and Adapting the Scorecard
  • Elkington’s Triple Bottom Line: Profit, People & Planet

Module II: Advanced Financial Statements Analysis

Day 6: Introduction to Advanced Financial Analysis
  • Why analyse financial data?
  • Who are the users of Financial Information?
  • Sources of Financial Information
  • Published Annual Reports and Accounts – What is their purpose?
  • The Structure and Contents of an Annual Report and Accounts
  • Creative Accounting, Financial Scandals, and the Agency Problem
  • Corporate Governance, Sustainability, Ethics and Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting
  • The Three Main Financial Statements
    • Income Statement
    • Balance Sheet
    • Statement of Cash Flows
Day 7: Analysing the Annual Report and Accounts
  • Using Ratio and Other Analyses of the Annual Report and Accounts to Assess Financial Position and Financial Performance
  • Profitability and Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) Analysis
  • Efficiency and Working Capital
  • Liquidity and the Short-term Solvency
  • Investment and Growth
  • Financial Structure and Long-term Solvency
  • Ratio Analysis using Excel
  • Excel Trend Analysis using Common-size Horizontal Analysis and Vertical Analysis for Comparability
Day 8: Analytical Tools, Cash vs Profit and the Cash Forecast
  • The Dupont System of Ratio Analysis and Pyramids of Ratios
  • Segmental Analysis and Value Added Analysis of the Annual Report and Accounts
  • The Fundamental Statistical Tools and Graphical Representations
  • Using Statistical Techniques to Analyse and Forecast Financial Data
  • The Impact of Alternative Asset Valuation Methods on the Balance Sheet and Profitability
  • Cash flow vs Profit – The Best Measure of Financial Performance
  • Working Capital and the Cash Flow Operating Cycle
  • Direct and Indirect Cash Flow Analysis and the Cash Flow Forecast
Day 9: Financing the Business, Capital Investment Project and Business Valuation
  • Analysis of the Balance Sheet to Identify Long-term Debt and Equity, and Short-term Financing
  • Capital Cost Models: Cost of Equity using Dividend Growth and Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM); Cost of Debt
  • Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
  • Optimal Capital Structure Models to Minimise WACC
  • Future Values, Present Values, and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
  • Using Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) and Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC) to Analyse and Evaluate Capital Projects
  • The Reasons for Business Valuations
  • Business Valuation Models
Day 10: Analysing and Predicting Corporate Failure, Business and Financial Risk
  • Predicting Financial Distress and Corporate Failure – The Altman Z-score Model
  • Risk and Uncertainty
  • Risk Analysis using Expected Values, Standard Deviation and Coefficient of Variation
  • Sensitivity, Simulation, Scenario and Break-even Analysis Techniques
  • The Analytical Tools to Manage Risk
  • Systematic Risk, Unsystematic Risk, Business Risk and Financial Risk
  • Financial Risk– Interest Rate and Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Exposures
  • Using Insurance, Hedging and Derivatives to Mitigate and Minimise risk
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Certificate

  • On successful completion of this training course, KC Academy Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.