FM0673 : Financial Analytical Skills

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using “MS-Excel” application. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Financial Analytical Skills. It covers the financial statements, accounting principles and key financial ratios; the compounding and discounting techniques, net present value (NPV) calculation and data collection and validation; the profitability analysis and liquidity and solvency analysis; the efficiency and turnover ratios, trend and horizontal analysis and vertical analysis techniques; the DuPont analysis framework, financial forecasting basics and cash flow analysis; and the valuation methods, discounted cash flow (DCF) modeling, financial modeling using Excel and break-even and margin analysis.

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the capital budgeting techniques, cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis, business performance indicators and budgeting and variance analysis; the working capital management, strategic financial decision-making and financial statement analysis; the effective financial reports, visualization best practices and automating recurring reports; the financial risks and quantitative and qualitative risk analysis, scenario and sensitivity testing and risk-adjusted decision-making; the financial red flags, forensic accounting tools, common manipulation techniques and the role of analytics in fraud prevention; the financial integrity and transparency, regulatory compliance and role of internal audit and governance structures; and the reporting obligations and stakeholder trust.