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Mini MBA: Accounting & Finance

An Intensive 10-day Training Course

Mini MBA:
Accounting & Finance

Mastering Accounting & Finance

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
02-13 Jun 2025Dubai - UAE$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
04-15 Aug 2025Dubai - UAE$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
06-17 Oct 2025Dubai - UAE$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
17-28 Nov 2025London - UK$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
15-26 Dec 2025Dubai - UAE$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
23 Mar-03 Apr 2026London - UK$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
01-12 Jun 2026Dubai - UAE$11,900RESERVE A SEAT
03-14 Aug 2026Geneva - Switzerland$11,900RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

This Mini MBA: Accounting & Finance training course is designed to explore the critical role of accounting and finance in the modern business environment. Offering an MBA-level experience in content, instruction, discussion, and team exercises, the course provides a thorough examination of how accounting information is collected, recorded, analyzed, and presented to support effective management, control, and decision-making processes.

Participants will gain insights into the key factors essential for successful financial management within a corporation, including the strategic allocation of resources in the context of economic, competitive, and physical challenges. The course also emphasizes the significance of high-quality corporate governance and effective financial risk management.

Training Course Objectives

By attending this Anderson training course, delegates will be able to:

  • Understand income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement
  • Interpret cost behavior and its impact on product costing
  • Understand the process of budgeting
  • Manage financial risks
  • Understand corporate governance mechanisms

Designed for

This Anderson training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals who wish to achieve career progress by expanding their financial knowledge.

However, it will be most suitable for operational and middle Managers who wish to better understand and make use of financial information in their management roles, for example:

  • Members of the operational management team
  • Managers who have responsibility for divisional performance
  • Managers who have responsibility for support functions
  • Consultants who provide advice on systems and operations
  • Senior staff members of any department

The Course Outline

Module 1: Accounting, Decision Making & Financial Communication
Day One: Introduction to Accounting
  • The importance of accounting information
  • The role of the Finance Function
  • The accounting equation and financial accounting systems
  • Recording facts and applying judgement
  • Preparing the Income Statement and Balance Sheet
  • Accounting principles and accounting standards
Day Two: Accounting Reports
  • The format and contents of the Income Statement
  • The format and contents of the Balance Sheet
  • The effect of depreciation and impairment on profit
  • Identifying and valuing inventory
  • Preparing the Cash flow Statement
  • The importance of cash flow in business
Day Three: Management Accounting for Control and Decision-Making
  • Collecting and analyzing costs
  • The structure of direct and indirect costs
  • Dealing with overheads – absorption costing or ABC?
  • Cost-Volume-Profit and break even analysis
  • Decision making – make or buy
  • Decision making – the effect of limiting factors
Day Four to Day Five: Communicating the Plan Through Budgeting
  • Corporate planning and corporate objectives implemented through budgeting
  • The budgeting process and timescale
  • Sales budget forecasting techniques
  • Cascading the budgets across the whole business
  • Preparing functional budgets and the cash budget
  • Budgeting principles, methodologies and applications
Module 2: Finance, Risk Management & Corporate Governance
Day Six: Finance and Financial Information
  • Finance & Accounting
  • Developing a Strategic Financial Plan
  • Financial Information: - Internal & External
  • Evaluating Financial Performance to improve Liquidity, Profitability, & Efficiency
  • Working Capital Management
  • Cash Flow Statements and Calculating Free Cash Flow
Day Seven: Financing the Business and the Cost of Capital
  • Sources of Long Term & Short Term Finance
  • The Optimum Capital Structure – Equity or Debt?
  • Calculating the Cost of Equity and Meeting Shareholder Expectations
  • Calculating the Cost of Debt – Fixed or Floating Rate
  • The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
  • The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Day Eight: CAPEX - Analysis of Investment Decisions
  • Strategic Issues facing Organisations Today
  • Preparing Project Cash Flow Forecasts in Excel
  • Capital Investment Appraisal Techniques: Accounting Rate of Return (ARR) and Payback
  • Discounted Cash Flow Appraisal Techniques: NPV and IRR
  • Capital Rationing and the Profitability Index (PI)
  • Dealing with Risk in Investment Appraisal - RAROC
Day Nine: Financial Risk Management
  • Risk and Uncertainty in Business
  • Identifying & Measuring Financial Risk
  • How to Manage Risk – The Four Ts
  • Managing Exchange Rate Risk
  • Managing Commodity Price Risk
  • Managing Interest Rate Risk
Day Ten: Corporate Governance
  • Recognising the needs of stakeholders
  • The Role and Scope of Corporate Governance
  • Agency Theory: The Role of Directors & Shareholders
  • The Role of External & Internal Auditors
  • The Role of the Audit Committee
  • Emerging trends in Corporate Governance

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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