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Course Code: FNBN 1556
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Advanced Financial Analysis
Course Sector:
Finance, Accounting and Banking
Course Dates and Locations
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No.
Date
Days
Location
Fees
Enrollment
01
5 Days
Muscat, Oman $4,250
02
5 Days
London, UK $4,950
03
5 Days
Online, Virtual $2,150
04
5 Days
Dubai, UAE $4,250
Introduction
Training course introducion / brief
This course brings together the key elements of financial statement analysis to help participants improve
their financial analysis skills, enable them to ask the right questions, see the real risks facing businesses
and investors, feel more confident in their ability to comment on business activities and performance
and analyze financial health for management.
These skills and the required technical knowledge will be put into practice throughout the course using
interactive examples and case studies, putting theory and technique into context
Course Objectives
At the end of the training course, participants will be able to
- List and differentiate between the important components of basic financial statements
- Explain financial statements' ratios and formulate Excel sheets and graphs for financial statements analysis
- Illustrate creative accounting schemes and critique the validity of accounting rules used
- Assess the quality of financial reports and evaluate quality of earnings and cash flows reported
- Analyze the financial position and performance of a company over a period of time and draw conclusions regarding its sustainability
Course Audience
Who is this course for, and can benefit the most
- Executives who have strategic financial oversight of their unit or organization
- Finance-related roles
- Accounting-related roles
- Marketing Managers
- Financial managers
- Affiliate marketing leaders
- Career Enhancers
- Digital Innovators
- Business owner / Entrepreneur
- General / Senior Accountant
- Business Project Manager
- Bank Branch Manager
- Structured Finance Senior Relationship Manager
- Finance Transformation Manager
- Risk Manager
- Investment Analyst
Course Outline
The course aims and learning outcomes
INTRODUCTION TO ADVANCED FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
- Users of financial data
- Types of available financial information and the annual financial report
- Content of the annual financial report and ways to read it
- Non-financial elements of the annual financial report and their importance
- Understanding the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement
- Other comprehensive income components
- How to access data from Tadawul, ADX, DFM, Bloomberg and Yahoo! Finance
ASSESSING QUALITY OFFINANCIAL REPORTS
- Framework for assessing company's quality of financial reports
- Potential problems that affect quality of financial reports
- Defining concept of sustainable and persistent earnings
- Beneish model: M-score to describe degree to which earnings are manipulated
- Evaluating the earnings quality of a company
- Evaluating the cash flow quality of a company
- Indicators of balance sheet quality
- Sources of information about risk
- Case study: analysis and interpretation of company performance
BASICS OFINDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND ANALYZING RATIOS USING EXCEL
- Industry analysis: understanding Michael Porter's five forces shaping industry's long term profitability
- Common size analysis to improve comparability
- Calculating trends and growth patterns
- Ratio analysis to assess key aspects of company performance: − Profitability − Liquidity − Efficiency and working capital management − Financing structure and risk
- Altman Z-score to assess potential bankruptcy
- Using graphical representation
INTEGRATION OFFINANCIAL STATEMENTS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
- Using a framework for financial statements analysis
- Evaluating quality of a company's financial data
- Recommending adjustments to improve quality and comparability
- Case study: investment decision at Nestle
FINANCIAL COSMETICS AND CREATIVE ACCOUNTING
- Last In First Out (LIFO) versus First In First Out (FIFO) and the effect on profits and taxes
- Explaining LIFO reserve and LIFO liquidation
- Converting reported inventory from LIFO to LIFO for purposes of comparison
- Valuing inventory at net realizable value: looking for signals of obsolete inventory
- Analyst's consideration when examining inventory
- Evaluating how capitalizing versus expensing costs affect financial statements and ratios
- Effect of different depreciation methods on financial statements
- Impairment and revaluation of property, plant and equipment
- The choice of operating lease or finance lease
- Using special purpose vehicles for balance sheet manipulation
- Joint ventures: using equity method
- Consolidation: inflating goodwill by using full goodwill instead of partial goodwill method
- Employees' compensation: completeness of end-of-service indemnity obligation
- Stock options and stock grants instead of bonuses
- Case study: creative accounting scandals of Enron, Worldcom, Parmala
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BOOST's Professional Attendance Certificate “BPAC” is always given to the delegates after completing the training course, and depends on their attendance of the program at a rate of no less than 80%, besides their active participation and engagement during the program sessions.
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COURSE METHODOLOGY
Our Training programs are implemented by combining the participants' academic knowledge and practical practice (30% theoretical / 70% practical activities).
At The end of the training program, Participants are involved in practical workshop to show their skills in applying what they were trained for. A detailed report is submitted to each participant and the training department in the organization on the results of the participant's performance and the return on training. Our programs focus on exercises, case studies, and individual and group presentations.
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