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 to developing 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 certainty in capital budgeting, evaluation criteria under discounted and non-discounted cash flow approach. 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.
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Business Planning- Concept of 3-years and 5-years planning, the concept of operations 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. The new line of business, expansion of the current product, backward/forward integration and application of effective financial management.

Analysis of the 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

   ✓  A 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 their calculation & interpretation.

   ✓  Regulatory reporting.

   ✓  SEC reporting.

   ✓  FINMA reporting.

   ✓  MD&A (management discussion & analysis).

   ✓  Other external & internal reporting.