This training is designed to enable delegates to make corporate financial decisions in an increasingly volatile international marketplace to increase profitability, maintain liquidity, and reduce financial risk.
The module follows the growth of a company from the development of a strategic corporate financial plan, the raising of finance, the preparation and management of budgets to support the plan, the management of financial risk, and ultimately the measurement and evaluation of performance.
Develop effective corporate financial plans aimed at maximizing return and minimizing risk
Evaluate the various methods of finance and make successful capital investment decisions
Prepare, manage and control budgets to support the corporate financial plans
Identify and manage financial risk effectively
Measure and manage performance effectively
Create opportunities for your personal development and increased financial awareness
Understand today’s major issues in international corporate finance and budgeting
Develop their professional skills, powers of analysis, evaluation, and decision-making.
Make improved finance and capital budgeting decisions, which will increase their importance to your organization.
Liaise effectively with other departments on matters of finance and budgeting
Identify areas in which they may be able to contribute to improvements in the financial performance of your company which will help improve your career development.
Financial Personnel
Financial Decision-Makers
Financial Planners & Analysts
Managers involved in planning and decision-making
Persons with aims to work in finance-related fields.
Persons involved in risk management
Strategic Planning
The Objective of the Firm – meeting Shareholder & Stakeholder Objectives
Agency Theory – the relationship between Shareholders & Management
Creative Accounting and the Case of Enron
Preparing a Strategic Plan
Financial Management & Financial Planning – the Scope, Role & Responsibilities of Financial Management
Preparing a Financial Plan – The Master Budget
Forecasting Future Cash-flows
Time Series Analysis
Correlation & Regression
Financial Modelling
Sources of Finance – Long Term & Short Term
Evaluation of the Types of Finance
Equity Finance
Debt Finance
Hybrid Finance & Financial Engineering
The Dividend Decision
The Cost of Capital
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
The Capital Investment Process
Payback
Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
Net Present Value (NPV)
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Capital Investment Appraisal
Capital Rationing
Definition of Budgets
The Budgetary Process
Types of Budgets
Fixed
Flexible
Incremental
Zero Based
Activity-Based Budgets
The Purpose/Benefits & Problems/Limitations of Budgets
Setting/Implementing Effective Budgets - Eliminating the Problems
Budgetary Control
Responsibility Accounting and Absorption Costing
Activity-Based Budgeting/Costing (ABB, ABC)
Variance Analysis
Cost Behaviour & Break-Even Analysis
Sensitivity/What-If Analysis
What-If Analysis combined with Du-Pont Analysis
Cash VS Profit
The Cash Conversion Cycle
Calculating and Managing the Cashflow Cycle
Cash Flow Ratios
Working Capital
The Cost of Maintaining Working Capital
Maintaining the Optimum level of Working Capital
Working Investment Ratios
Preparing a Monthly Cash Flow Forecast
Risk Management
Types of Risk
Identifying Risk – SWOT Analysis
The Major Quantitative & Qualitative Risks Facing Companies
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This course is designed for IT professionals who are looking to take on the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in an organization. The course will cover key concepts and skills in information security, including risk management, security governance, incident response, and compliance.
The Service Operation (SO) module is one of the certifications within the ITIL Service Lifecycle workstream. This module focuses on the principles, processes, operational activities, and functions that enable organizations and individuals to successfully manage how their products and services perform. These activities can also help improve their IT service management.
The SO module focuses on the coordination and execution of activities that enable the ongoing management and operation of the products or services developed or implemented during the service strategy, design, and transition phases of the IT Service Lifecycle as well as any technology and support resources that are used to deliver them.
The course covers management and control of activities and techniques that are documented in the ITIL Service Operation publication, but it does not provide the full detail of each supporting process. More information about these processes can be found in the Operational Support and Analysis module from the Service Capability workstream.
Understanding of Service Operation best practice enables organizations and IT teams to effectively sustain and maintain the products and services they develop and ensure that they provide efficient resources for their users.
The leadership bears new responsibilities and burdens posed by the successive challenges of change in the era of globalization, the communications revolution and the Internet sovereignty that have begun and will not end.
Together, these factors lead to the need to ascertain the readiness of the executive leader and his ability to deal with these challenges of a strategic nature and adapt them to serve the purposes, goals, and objectives of the institution and achieve its higher mission.