Day One: Business Finance Fundamentals
- Competitive and finance strategy fundamentals
- Business models and their disruption
- The context for project and capital investment
- Financial statements - function and structure
- Measuring financial performance and strength
- The vital difference between profit and cash flow
Day Two: Financial Analysis and Interpretation
- A systematic approach to financial analysis
- Analysing and improving financial performance
- Analysing and improving asset management efficiency
- Analysing and interpreting capital structure and risk
- An investor’s perspective on financial appraisal
- Key cash flow ratios
Day Three: Mastering Pricing, Costs and Profit
- Understanding cost behaviour
- Analysing the cost-volume-profit relationship
- Mastering the principles of gross margin and break-even
- Cost classification and costing concepts
- A strategic approach to cost reduction
- Evaluating cost and value approaches to pricing
- Building an Excel pricing model
Day Four: Forecasting Methods for Investment Projects
- Forecasting fundamentals
- Using Excel statistical analysis tools
- Revenue forecasts: time series analysis techniques
- Qualities of a good project cost estimate
- Common approaches to project cost estimation
- Identifying relevant project cash flows
- Principles and best practice in Excel financial modelling
Day Five: Preparing and Presenting Investment Appraisals
- Sources and cost of business funding
- Funding strategy and optimal capital structure
- The bank’s perspective on project finance
- Principles of capital investment decision-making
- Mastering discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis
- Building an Excel investment appraisal model
- Preparing and presenting an investment project appraisal