This interactive course will develop your skills in analyzing business activities. It will guide you through the key steps of analyzing financial statements, appraising new investments, and measuring performance at all levels of your organization. It will develop your ability to generate growth and improve profitability, as well as pinpoint problem areas for remedial action. Over the five modules, delegates will acquire skills and technical knowledge which will enable them to manage more effecti
Business professionals need to understand the financial factors critical to business success. This course will show how finance works in today’s fast-moving business environment. For any business, the key elements of profitability, liquidity, and financial structure are critical to continuing success and competitiveness. So these three elements are comprehensively explored and developed at all levels of business activity. You will learn about the accounting processes of recording and reporting business transactions and how these are summarised as periodic financial reports, under statutory requirements. You will also learn financial reports are analyzed and by a variety of user groups
This program provides the skills to build world-class standards into your planning, budgeting, performance measurement, and reporting system. This program will discuss new techniques, explain how they complement the traditional financial planning tools, and introduce new concepts for measuring and reporting performance and shareholder wealth creation. You will explore the issues relating to capital budgeting. Budgeting manufacturing as well as other expenses, identifying profit objectives, budgeting cash requirements, and forecasting are all covered in this seminar.
The importance of the cash cycle coming from the fact that moving cash-generating profit, so as much as you improve the cash cycle, as much as you get more profit. Accounts receivable and payables best practices playing the main role in improving the cash cycle.
This seminar 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 seminar is to present many integrated and powerful principles to help develop analytical skills and the decision-making capacity of the participants.
Budgets are an essential financial tool, which aid, planning, decision making, resource allocation, coordination, and control.
Many managers and executives have heard that ‘accounting is the language of business;’ yet have not taken the opportunity to become basically literate. This course offers the accounting language in a structured process. Participants will gain access to the language in a variety of exercises that eventually link to the Annual Reports and to the budgets prepared and managed by the executives. No preparation is necessary except to bring an open mind and a budget document or other financial documents of interest.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities, interconnectedness and sheer complexity of our global economy. Successfully navigating the uncertainties of the post-COVID-19 world will require a deep understanding of the risks, the impact of monetary and fiscal policies, the international monetary system and theories that underpin it, as well as the role and the fragilities of the key players on the global stage. This transformative program leverages the full expertise of LSE faculty and distinguished visiting speakers to ground you in the events and debates that are reshaping our world economy; and to empower you with the knowledge and insights to make sense of the road that lies ahead.
This program provides the skills to build world-class standards into your planning, budgeting, performance measurement, and reporting system. This program will discuss new techniques, explain how they complement the traditional financial planning tools, and introduce new concepts for measuring and reporting performance and shareholder wealth creation. You will explore the issues relating to capital budgeting. Budgeting manufacturing as well as other expenses, identifying profit objectives, budgeting cash requirements, and forecasting are all covered in this seminar.