Course duration: Intensive 100 hours

FORECASTING

• Perform Top-Down and Bottom-up Forecasting
• Forecast a Company's Sales
• Forecast a Company's Planned Level of Production
• Calculate Net Cash Flow
• Forecast Various Types of Expenditures
• Estimate Working Capital Needs
• Carry out a Fixed Asset Roll forward
• Forecasting techniques (moving average, regression analysis, etc.)
• Essential Mechanics of the Forecasting Process
• Forecasting Selling, General & Administrative expenses
• Forecasting Balance Sheet Items

BUDGETING

• Budgeting within a strategic framework
• Building a robust budgeting process
• Managing budget psychology
• A practical guide todeveloping budgets
• Common budgeting approaches (e.g. Incremental, value-based, zero-based, etc.)
• Tracking budget performance with variance analysis (waterfall charts, etc.)
• Applied budgeting tools and techniques (Excel, solver, pivot tables, etc.)

Budgeting control - meaning and objectives of budget and budgetary control, essentials of effective budgeting, types of budget and budget vs actual

Capital Budgeting - Concept and process of capital budgeting, feasibility analysis, managing risk and ncertainty in capital budgeting, evaluation criteria under discounted and non-discounted cash flow approaches. Evaluate various investment decisions using appropriate tools and techniques and apply them to day to day business decisions.

PLANNING

• Getting Started with Financial Planning
• The Accounting Framework
• Financial modeling
• Corporate financial planning/strategic planning



Business planning - Concept of 3 and 5 year planning, concept of operational and sales plan including market forecast, production plan, sourcing plan and how various operations are inter-linked and aligned with the long term business plan

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Investment Decision making - Purpose, objective and process of investment decisions and evaluation of different types of project. New line of business, expansion of current product, backward/forward integration and application of effective financial management.

Analysis of balance sheet, apply appropriate measures for executing and evaluating the financial results to support managerial decision-making and setting strategies

REPORTING

Corporate Financial Reporting - Attributes of good corporate financial reporting for performance analysis, understanding profit & loss items, reviewing the balance sheet, variance analysis, non- performing asset analysis, identifying the cause and taking appropriate action

GLOBAL BANKING SPECIAL

• Special guide on Global Banking KPIs
• Basel III Financial structure (P&L account, balance sheet)
• Restructuring items/adjustment items & their treatments
• Additional information section
• Key performance Indicator (KPIs) – type of KPIs and its calculation & interpretation
• Regulatory reporting
  • SEC reporting
  • FINMA reporting
  • MD&A (management discussion & analysis)
  • Other external & internal reporting