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Advanced Accounting and Budgeting for Managers

LCT International, In Abuja (+4 locations)
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Advanced Accounting and Budgeting for Managers

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  • In Company
  • Abuja
  • English

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  • Accra
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  • Jakarta
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  • Kuala Lumpur
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  • Riyadh
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Outcome / Qualification etc.

Participants will leave the course with greater knowledge in many areas of finance

Training Course Content

Key Financial Concepts and Principles

  • Bookkeeping versus accounting
  • Cash accounting versus accrual accounting and use in private and public sectors
  • Types of accounts in the General Ledger, their purpose and the chart of accounts
  • Double-entry bookkeeping concepts and implications
  • Depreciation and amortisation

Reading Financial Statements, Public and Private Sector

  • International standards in the private and public sectors, IFRS and IPSAS
  • Format and content of the statement of financial position (balance sheet)
  • Format and content of the statement of profit or loss
  • IPSAS principles of financial statements presentation for the public sector
  • Investor ratios

Management Accounting

  • Financial accounting and management accounting compared
  • Types of management information prepared for internal consumption
  • Financial information managers need to manage – the power of comparisons
  • Analysing costs, key ratio calculations for management and variance analysis, including ROE, ROA and liquidity ratios

Managing the Finances and Costs of Projects

  • Financial aspects of building the business case and getting approval for funding
  • Estimating project costs – different estimating techniques, expert, analogous, parametric, bottom up etc.
  • Project forecasts, cost variances and cost control
  • Project risks and financial implications

Building an Effective Budget

  • Public sector v. Private sector budgeting differences in purpose, processes and motive.
  • Budgetary methodologies, incremental and zero-based
  • Budget and variance analysis
  • End of week quiz to appraise learning achieved

Interpreting Financial Statements

  • The income statement (P & L) statement, format, content and key concepts
  • Interpretation of key ratios derived from the income statement; P/E ratio, Profit margin
  • The language and major components of the balance sheet
  • Business ratios derived from the balance sheet and P & L together, liquidity, debt, profitability etc.

Investment Appraisal

  • Defining the value generated and the required return – the hurdle rate
  • Return on capital employed – calculation methodology and interpretation
  • Payback period calculations
  • NPV and IRR calculations
  • Non-financial aspects of investment appraisal and decision making

Essential Budgeting Processes

  • Purpose and benefits, problems and limitations of capital and operational budgets and the important differences
  • Budget processes in the private sector
  • Budget processes in the public sector
  • Identification of risks to the budget and actions to mitigate them

Measuring Financial Performance

  • What is financial performance?
  • Financial performance in the public sector
  • The importance of cash flow – how to measure and improve it
  • Gross profit, operating profit, net profit margin
  • Key investor ratios

Why choose LCT International

We have trained over 25,000 delegates from almost 500 client organisations

Highly qualified and experienced trainers who offer a unique learning experience tailored to you

Endorsed by various organisational and subject specific accrediting bodies

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London Corporate Training
3 Shortlands, Hammersmith
W6 8DA London

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