Certificate in Advanced Financial Analysis and Reporting Training Course - Tailored Course

Module 1: An Overview of the Advanced Financial Evaluation

• The importance of evaluating financial data
• Published annual accounts and reports- their purpose
• The contents and structure of yearly invoices and reports
• Financial information sources
• The three primary financial statements
• Business governance, ethics, sustainability, and corporate and social role (CSR) reporting
• Creative accounting, agency issues, and financial challenges
• The uses of financial data

Module 2: Analytical Equipment, Profit Vs Cash, and the Money Forecast

• The segmental evaluation and value-added assessment of the yearly accounts and report
• The pyramids of ratio and Dupont system ratio evaluation
• Profit vs cash flow- the best assessment of the cash accounting performance
• Cash flow operating cycle and working capital
• The effect of alternative property valuation technique on the profitability and balance sheet
• The graphical representation and basics of statistical tools
• Cash flow forest and direct and indirect cash flow evaluation
• Cash flow forecast and direct and indirect cash flow evaluation

Module 3: Evaluation of the Yearly Accounts and Reports

• Working capital and efficiency
• Growth and investment
• Short-period solvency and liquidity
• Long-term solvency and financial design
• Cost volume profit and profitability evaluation
• Financial Ratio analysis
• Ratio assessment using Excel
• Excel trend evaluation using standard-size horizontal evaluation and vertical evaluation for comparison

Module 4: Predicting and Analysing Corporate Business, Failure, and Financial Threat

• Uncertainty and risk
• Forecasting corporate failure and financial distress-the Altman z-score technique
• The analytical equipment to control the threat
• Simulation, sensitivity, break-even evaluation, and scenario models
• Using hedging, insurance, and derivates to control and lowering hazards
• Financial threat – interest rate and foreign currency exchange rate exposures
• The systematic threat, unsystematic threat, financial threat, and business risk

Module 5: Financing an Organisation, Business Valuation, and Capital Investment Project

• The causes for business evaluation
• Corporate assessment techniques
• Evaluation of the balance sheet to recognize long-term equity and debt, and short-period financing
• Present values, future values, and discounted cash flow (DCF)
• Capital price technique: cost of equity with the use of capital pricing model (CAPM) and dividend growth; debt price

Module 6: Financial Statement Overview

• Profit and loss
• Balance sheet
• Changes in equity
• Annual report
• The association between the financial statements
• Accounting notes and policies
• Cash flow statement

Module 7: Financial Statement Analysis Overview

• Solvency analysis
• Vertical evaluation
• Horizontal analysis
• Asset management
• Profitability evaluation
• Liquidity evaluation

Module 8: Profit and Loss Analysis

• Dupont evaluation
• Measures of profitability
• Revenue Analysis
• Evaluation of costs of goods sold
• Analysis of expenses

Module 9: Balance Sheet Analysis

• Analysis of receivable
• Analysis of fixed properties
• Analysis of Equity
• Analysis of data structure
• Analysis of inventory
• Payable evaluation

Module 10: Cash Flow Analysis

• Money flow from the inventory process evaluation
• Money flow from the operational process evaluation
• Money flow from the financial process evaluation

Module 11: Annual Report Analysis

• Accounting policies evaluation
• Notes to financial statement evaluation
• Compliance with regulation
• Accounting standards compliance
• Management commentary evaluation

Module 12: Evaluation of the Financial Statements with the Use of Spreadsheets

• Leverage evaluation
• Trend evaluation
• Investment evaluation
• Analysis of cash flow
• Analysis of the automated ratio result
• Analysis of the financial statement proportion

Module 13: Future Forecasting

• Cash flow predictions
• Fixed and variable costs prediction
• Cost of goods sold prediction
• Revenue prediction
• Balance sheet accounts prediction