This five-day program develops an essential understanding of Oil & Gas Exploration & Production (E&P) accounting, reporting, and performance measurement issues and practices. It develops your ability to prepare, use, and critically evaluate information on E&P activities, applying specialist industry knowledge and relevant analytical skills.
Develop an understanding of the accounting standards, policies, and practices used by companies in the Oil & Gas Exploration & Production industry
Appreciate the nature and financial implications of Production Sharing Contracts and other agreements between host governments and international companies
Examine issues and guidelines in accounting for Joint Ventures
Identify and know how to apply international and national accounting standards most relevant to the E&P industry
Improve the relevance and reliability of financial reports to better meet the needs of users
Review and use publicly available information for benchmarking the business performance of companies in the E&P industry
The operation, technical service, and maintenance professionals
Technical professionals responsible for the maintenance and repair of equipment
Professionals involved in inspection and maintenance and repair
Technical professionals dealing with risk assessment and integrity analysis
Technicians dealing with regulating and metering and other measurements
Investor reporting
New investors
Taxation and royalties
Stock market intermediaries
Effect on reporting
Migration paths
Effect on PSC reporting
Share pricing and O&G companies
Capitalizing E&P projects
Effects of IFRS
Capital maintenance
Sources of capital
Unit 4: Oil & Gas Value Chain and Accounting Issues:
E&P Exploration & evaluation, borrowing costs, and development expenditures
P&S Reserves and resources
Product valuation issues, impairment of assets, disclosures, decommissioning
Royalties and income taxes
Emission trading schemes
Joint ventures – GAAP & IFRS
Business combinations
Currency issues
Accounting treatments
Analytical tools
Full cost
Successful efforts
Decommissioning obligations
The auditor’s ‘Opinion'
True and Fair
Sarbanes Oxley
Internal audits
Corporate governance
Government regulation
Investor confidence and share prices
Creative accounting and investor protection
Sources of external finance
Financial markets
Investment criteria
Roles of intermediaries in the financial markets
Analysis of Shell Oil and BP Accounts
DuPont hierarchy of ratios
Theoretical conclusions and live feeds from London Stock Exchange
You can learn the skills you need to help a company implement, manage, and maintain a disaster recovery plan by taking a Disaster Recovery Manager training course. You will also receive a comprehensive understanding of best practices for disaster recovery during this training course.
You can take the exam and submit an application for a "Certified Disaster Recovery Manager" credential once you have mastered all the principles required for Disaster Recovery procedures. You can prove that you have the professional skills and practical knowledge necessary to implement and manage disaster recovery processes in a business by having a disaster recovery manager certificate.
Managerial accounting is an activity that provides financial and non-financial information to business managers and other internal decision-makers of an organization. This course examines how managerial accounting information is gathered, and how it is used by business professionals to make effective plans & decisions. Lessons such as fundamentals of managerial accounting cost accounting concepts, and managerial accounting approaches will provide you with the concepts, procedures, and analytical skills you'll need to make informed decisions in today's challenging business world
One of the major keys to success in the business world is being able to apply “discipline” to your life and actions! This is the key to developing personal effectiveness and professional excellence.
The level of competition in current business environments requires a focus on practices that assist in the management of personal and workgroup tasks, priorities, and projects. All types of organizations need to find more productive means to offer their products and/or services, so goals are established and tasks assigned to better meet customer and stakeholder needs. A focus on the use of productive practices allows for effective and efficient management of project work, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines, and is an important part of customer service.
This course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.