Finance for non-financial managers Bundle (Online course)

Finance for non-financial managers Bundle

1. The Basics of Business Finance – Essentials: 2/3 hour online course

This 2/3 hour online course is designed to provide the participant with a good understanding of the basics of business finance and more in detail:

• how businesses are funded and what the money’s used for
• how they make profits and generate cash
• how to measure business performance
• where to find the information you’ll need
• how income statements and balance sheets work
• understand key financial jargon, concepts and commonly used financial metrics.

COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Overview
2. Where the money comes from
    • Funding options and characteristics
    • Typical company funding
    • Cost of capital

3. What the Money is Spent on
    • Types of asset
    • Balance sheet jargon
    • Depreciation and amortisation
    • Net debt and net working capital
    • Reviewing a real balance sheet

4. How much profit does the business make
    • Income statement jargon
    • Who uses what
    • Adjusted profit and EBITDA
    • Impact of changing prices and volumes
    • Income statement analysis
    • Reviewing a real income statement

5. Does the business generate cash
    • Making profits versus generating cash
    • How cash flows work
    • How the three statements fit together

6. Is it worth the effort
    • Return on investment
    • Economic profit

7. Summary and conclusion
    • Where to find the information
    • Summary
Final Quiz

COURSE OUTCOME:
• Develop a good understanding of the basics of business finance
• Learn lots of key concepts and financial language
• See how financial statements work and how they are used
• See how to calculate commonly used financial metrics

2. Adjusted Profits – Specialist Short: 40-minute online course

This 40-minute online course has been designed to provide you a good understanding of what companies mean by “adjusted” or “underlying” profits and the advantages and pitfalls of using these numbers.
The course is composed of 8 modules.

COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Which numbers can we rely on?
2. Adjusting profits
3. Typical adjusting items
4. EBITDA
5. Constant currencies
6. Accounting policies & subjectivity
7. Goodwill impairment
8. Examples

3. Understanding Cash Flows – Specialist Short: 40-minute online course

This 40-minute online course covers the difference between profits and cash flows, looking at cash flow statements and considering the impact of working capital management on cash generation.
The course is composed of 6 modules, complemented by a final quiz.

COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Which numbers can we rely on?
2. Adjusting profits
3. Typical adjusting items
4. EBITDA
5. Constant currencies
6. Accounting policies & subjectivity
7. Goodwill impairment
8. Examples

4. Leverage and How Much is Too Much - Specialist Short: 50-minute online course

This 50-minute online course has been designed to look at leverage (gearing), covering what makes a company suitable for high leverage, how to measure it and considering how much is too much, using real examples.
The course is composed of 7 modules.

COURSE OUTLINE:
1. What is leverage
2. Leverage pros and cons
3. Suitability for high leverage
4. Measuring leverage
5. How much is too much?
6. A further example
7. Conclusion

5. How to Analyse a Company – Coffee Break: 20-minute online course

This course is designed to let you learn how to analyse a company in just 20 minutes with a series of 6 steps that will give you a quick and easy view of how a company’s doing.

Whether you’re looking from the point of view of a supplier, a lender, an investor or a potential employee, by the end of the course you’ll be in a good position to make an assessment of how the business is performing, whether it is financially sound and what the future is likely to hold.

The course is composed of 6 modules, complemented by a final quiz to assess your knowledge.

COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Introduction
2. Step 1: Understand the business
3. Step 2: Consider the ownership
4. Step 3: Analyse profitability
5. Step 4: Assess financial strength
6. Step 5: Look for red flags
7. Step 6: Draw your conclusions
Final Quiz

COURSE OUTCOME:
• Understand the business and its ownership
• Learn how to analyse profitability
• Assess financial strength
• Be able to look for red flags and draw your conclusions

6. Understanding Shareholder Value - Essentials: 2-hour online course

This course is designed to provide the participant with a good understanding of shareholder value, including:

• what it means from a shareholder’s point of view
• what it means from a company’s point of view
• the levers a company can pull to create more value
• making the link with strategic actions that drive value creation and communicating shareholder values.

COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Introduction
2. The Shareholders Perspective
    • Key shareholder value concepts
    • Driving total shareholder return

3. The Company Perspective
    • Return on equity
    • The impact of leverage
    • Return on capital employed
    • Management’s task

4. Capital Management
    • Efficient capital structures
    • Changing the capital structure
    • Cost of capital
    • Capital management
    • Real company examples

5. Capital Allocation
    • Reminder
    • Allocating capital
    • Capital allocation examples

6. Growth and Returns
    • Growth
    • Profitability

7. Communicating Shareholder Value
    • Expectations management
    • Telling a great investment story – real company examples

COURSE OUTCOME:
• Understand what shareholder value really means
• See how companies drive value internally and externally
• Understand the cost of capital and efficient balance sheets
• Make the link with strategic actions that drive value creation