Trade
Finance
Finance is sometimes
described as the language of business. To be effective, everyone needs to be
financially literate. You need to be able to interpret figures and understand
what lies behind them. The international financial management course will help Participants
to perform their own jobs better, communicate better with their accounting and
finance colleagues, and contribute better to the management team.
Course Objectives
This intensive course will provide
·
A thorough grounding in basic
Accounting at a level that all participants can understand.
·
Practical experience of using financial
data.
·
Tools to help you use what you’ve
learnt when you’re back in the workplace.
The purpose of the course is to
provide participants with a sound knowledge of the basics of finance and
accounting, thereby enabling them to:
·
Appreciate the role and limitations of
accounting
·
Analyze their company’s financial performance.
·
Preparing Operating and Capital
Budgets.
·
Analyzing cash flow.
·
Control their own department more
effectively
·
Enhance the Shareholders’ Value
·
Spot and manage their financial risks
·
Communicate more effectively with their
finance departments
Audience
·
Executives, Managers and line
supervisors who receive management reports and taking financial decisions.
·
Recent appointees to management
positions
·
Accountants who prepare inputs to
management information systems.
Course Outline
The course will address many
areas of finance and accounting including:
·
Introducing finance and accounting:
a. Analyzing
the accounting transactions to debit and credit
b. Preparing
General Journal entries.
c. Preparing
the Ledger
d. Preparing
the Trail Balance
·
Understanding and Preparing the basics
of financial statements:
a. Income
Statement
b. Balance
sheet
c. Statement
of Retained Earnings
d. Cash
Flow Statement.
·
Using ratios to evaluate:
A. Liquidity
( Working Capital Finance )
B. Activity
and efficiency
C. Profitability.
D. Long
– term debts.( Leverage)
·
Evaluating the results
·
Determining Additional Funds Needed.
·
Comprehensive Case Study ( Preparing,
Analyzing And Evaluating Financial Statements)
·
Managing cash flow.
·
Depreciation Related Topics.
·
Lease versus Buy Decision.
·
Time Value of Money:
A. Present
Value.
B. Future
Value.
·
Budgeting :
A. Operating
Budgets
·
Appraising investment proposals using the
capital budgeting techniques :
A.
Discounted Payback Period
B.
Net Present value ( NPV )
C.
Internal Rate of Return ( IRR)
·
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (
WACC):
A. Cost
of Debts
B. Cost
of Equity
C. Weighted
Average Cost of Capital ( WACC)
D. Optimal
Capital Structure.
·
Increasing Shareholders Value
·
Risk and Rates of Return:
A. Business
Risk
B. Financial
Risk
C. Market
Risk
D. Company’s
Specific Risk
E. Capital
Asset Pricing Model ( CAPM)
F. Risk
Diversifications and Portfolio Management.