FCA0207 | Best Practices in Finance & Accounting Competence

Start End Duration Venue Fees
06 Jan 2020 17 Jan 2020 2 Weeks Barcelona $7,900 Register
17 Feb 2020 28 Feb 2020 2 Weeks Jakarta $8,000 Register
23 Mar 2020 03 Apr 2020 2 Weeks Bali $8,000 Register
06 Apr 2020 17 Apr 2020 2 Weeks London $7,900 Register
25 May 2020 05 Jun 2020 2 Weeks Madrid $7,900 Register
22 Jun 2020 03 Jul 2020 2 Weeks Istanbul $7,300 Register
19 Jul 2020 30 Jul 2020 2 Weeks Dubai $6,900 Register
09 Aug 2020 20 Aug 2020 2 Weeks Cairo $6,400 Register
07 Sep 2020 18 Sep 2020 2 Weeks Singapore $8,000 Register
11 Oct 2020 22 Oct 2020 2 Weeks Abu Dhabi $6,900 Register
16 Nov 2020 27 Nov 2020 2 Weeks Kuala Lumpur $7,300 Register
20 Dec 2020 31 Dec 2020 2 Weeks Alexandria $6,400 Register


PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND


Finance is a core process function in business that requires executive attention. Accounting is the language of business; understanding and applying this language to your business in general remains the single most valuable competence of management. Prepare yourself by enhancing your personal competence in identifying best practices in finance and in accounting. In this program you will:

›       Focus on real companies and their finance function and accounting processes to show participants which elements have achieved best practices status

›       Will remove much of the mystique associated with the management of finance and accounting

›       Focus on challenging you to become the strategic financial leaders of the organization

›       Prepare yourself for future responsibilities by examining best practices in these important functions processes 

PROGRAM'S OBJECTIVES


This Program’s Attendees Will Be More Able To:

›       Identify best practices for the roles of CFO, controller, treasurer, and accountants in the content of, and relationships between, financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows)

›       Discuss best practices in the use of financial statements to evaluate the financial strategic performance of an organization

›       Understand best practices in discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques and their application to financial decision-making

›       Identify best practices in corporate performance management using key success factors, weak financial signals, and strong financial signals in various industry sectors

›       Understand best practices in how EVA® (Economic Value Added), SVA (Shareholder Value Added), and RI (Residual Income) can be used to value competing strategies

›       Define best practices in the value creation destruction process in mergers and acquisitions from the market perspective and signals to management from the market

›       Clarify best practices in the roles of directors, auditors, and others in their respective roles in corporate governance

›       Identify best practices in the various sources of financial and business data that provide insights into business and financial strategies

›       Identify best practices in the details of financial control, risk management, and financial reporting from the perspectives of the internationally

›       Enhance personal networks of similarly minded high potential managers 

PROGRAM'S ATTENDEES


›       Financial and non-financial professionals who wish to test their high performance and high potential knowledge, skills and attitudes with other similar individuals

›       Anyone who wishes to reinforce their knowledge of financial functions processes and who require a more integrative financial view

PROGRAM'S OUTLINE


GETTING STARTED WITH BEST PRACTICES IN FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

›       The role of financial management Treasurer, and Controller

›       The role of functional management in respect to financial management

›       The basic financial statements and their articulation

›       Competitive perspectives related to financial statements

›       Best practices in preparing, presenting, and populating financial statements

›       Identifying key success factors in industry sectors

BEST PRACTICES IN EARLY REVIEW & PROJECTIONS OF STRATEGY VIA FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

›       Short-term success evaluations process and measures

›       Weak signals for future strategic adjustments

›       Buy, sell, or hold investments

›       Best practices in financial review compared to targets and expectations

›       Financial performance measurement systems

›       Best practices in finding and using key accounting assumptions

›       Compare business system to financial results

BEST PRACTICES IN ANNUAL REPORTS, FOOTNOTES, & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

›       Role of exchange commissions and social policy

›       Best practices in reconciling accounting standards and reporting

›       Best practices in examining corporate governance and shareholder value as well as stakeholder value

›       Benchmarking external reviews, industry reports, and analyst reports

›       Best practices in boards of directors and their move to financial literacy

›       Benchmarking shareholder value measures

BEST PRACTICES IN INDUSTRY FINANCIAL ANALYSIS & BALANCING THE SCORECARD

›       Best practices in asking financial managers to guide the understanding of an industry sector with ratios and other financial statements

›       Best practices in controllership planning, control, costing, and profitability

›       Benchmarking value creation from the controllership function

›       Finding best practices in non-financial inputs to financial statements

›       Learning best practices for the cash to capital to cash (Karl Marx) and how to leave an industry sector

›       Activity based costing, time-based costing, and competence based costing and financial analysis

BEST PRACTICES IN NET PRESENT VALUE THINKING & NEXT GENERATION FINANCIAL MODELING

›       Benchmarking the use of real options as a next generation best practice

›       Presenting and communicating to executive audiences the best practices in finance and accounting

›       Demonstrating next generation model building

›       Challenging the finance function to best practices

›       What applications of lessons learned in best practices in Finance and Accounting

›       Accounting are applicable in your company and in your markets

›       What personal learning plans have been made to continue best practices in Finance and Accounting

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Benefits to Organization

1. The candidates will become competent, effective and productive on their jobs. This training program is useful for:
        · Competency building where existing employee is promoted or planned to be promoted.
        · Technical knowledge, skills and competencies.
        · Needs and expectations of the stakeholders/ customers both internal and external.
        · Opportunities to exceed stakeholder/ customer expectations.
2. Create a pool of trained manpower that can cost-effectively spread the knowledge to large number of employees inside the organization.
3. Our facilitators often act as mentors for your trained employees and thus provide a most effective way to ensure effective competency development and application by your motivated staff.
4. We adopted a one-to-one approach that can provide more room for your employees to work at their own pace and address individual needs more freely.

Benefits to the Individuals

1. The candidates will gain a multi-discipline understanding of the subject matter.
2. Have an individual action plan to take away that will help the candidates make a difference in their organizations. This will add value to the expertise and experience of the candidates’.
3. Be more able to enhance job satisfaction and reduce wasted time and effort.
4. Ensure that the candidates will know and appreciate the strategic imperatives that drive the organization's efforts in their relevant job area.
5. Be more able to align your roles and job requirements with the organization’s mission and vision.
6. Be more able to meet your deadlines and tasks and successfully complete any scorecard in a timely fashion.

Additional Benefits

1. Good & best industry practices.
2. Checklist approach for ease of understanding and practical application.
3. Latest technologies including information technology, quality assurance and methodology.
4. Quality assurance and quality improvement incorporated in each program.
5. One-to-one approach and small groups will lead to learner-centered environment.
6. Experienced and qualified instructors both academically and in practice.
7. Customized programs to meet and suit individual training needs.
8. Letters of recommendation for the exceptional performers.

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