2014

FINANCE FOR NON-FINACE

PROFESSIONAL

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Overview

Finance for non-financial managers is an intensive Three-day course designed to provide nonfinancial

managers and others with the knowledge and confidence required to comprehend and participate in

financial decision-making and analysis. The course is in the style of a series of presentations interspersed

with case study material. Delegates are required to carry out a fair amount of financial manipulation and

are introduced to spreadsheets with a number of cases.

Who Should Attend

The course is ideal for those persons seeking a proper grounding in the fundamentals of finance and

accounting, including:

Non-financial managers from backgrounds such as design, production, engineering, sales,

marketing, legal, IT and HR

Entrepreneurs and consultants

Financial services managers seeking the basics of finance and accounting

Other non-financial specialists who wish to know more about finance and accounting

Course Outcomes By the end of this workshop, learners will be able to:

Understand the Contents of accounts

Understand the profit and loss account and balance sheet

Develop Cash flow analysis

Understand the time value of money

Prepare Project analysis

Evaluate the cost of capital

Presenting financial information

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Our Approach

The case studies are designed to enable the delegate to take ownership of the knowledge offered by

applying it to a case immediately after the relevant presentation. This is further reinforced by the

completion of group cases towards the end of the course. The course is ideal for managers and others who

are not financially trained, but who need to be familiar with the overall concepts and language used in

corporate financial management, financial analysis, credit transactions and other corporate finance

activities.

The presentation style is intensive, inclusive and informal. In the pre-course period delegates are expected

to read from cover to cover a complete set of published statutory accounts.

Training Techniques’: Presentation. Discussions. Practice - Workshops

Language of Instruction

Unless otherwise stated the program instruction is in Standard Day-to-Day English. Participants can

request the instructor to provide a program vocabulary which will ensure they have no problem

understanding the content and can be facilitated a little bit by using Arabic language when necessary.

Duration: 4 Days

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Course Content:

Introduction to financial accounting

Identifying the relationship between cash flow and profit

Development of an integrated cash flow model

Recognizing it’s all about cash

Understanding the relationships between the three main accounting statements.

Exercise 1 - Accounting terminology exercise

How the P&L has changed over the last 25 years

Detailed review of the Profit and Loss Account including explanation of all significant accounting

terminology.

Profit types - trading, asset and business

Inventory, Depreciation, Capitalized interest,

Detailed review of the Balance Sheet including explanation of all significant accounting

terminology

Understanding the fixed assets note,

Accounting goodwill – what is it?

Liabilities, pension fund accounting

Debt and other liabilities like debt

Understanding cash flows

Detailed review of the Cash Flow Statement

Analyzing and interpreting cash flows

Case study - Summarizing cash flows

Delegates summarize cash flows for analysis purpose

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The four phases in the life of a business

Dealing with the consequences of growth and no-growth.

Case study - Growth & no-growth cash flows Delegates restate cash flows to improve their

understanding of performance

Preparing the forecast

Identifying the free cash flows

Competing the valuation

Case study - Financial presentation

In small groups delegates prepare and present a slide based presentation of the salient

features gained from the analysis case in session one using spreadsheets and graphical

techniques

Case study - Project analysis

Delegates create a summary of the project cash flows & Identify the principal project risks

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Registration:

Date:

13 April , 2014

Venue:

EBC Training Center , Muscat

Duration:

4 Days

Registration Fees:

OMR 450

Fees Include:

Training Materials ( Soft & Hard Copies )

Coffee Breaks

Course Certificate