CORPORATE FINANCE

Venue:

Atlanta, USA, // London (UK) // Dubai

Duration: 2 Weeks // 1 Week

Prices:

$ 4,900 for 1 Week

$ 8,000 for 2 weeks

Dates: To be agreed with clients

The module is designed to build on the finance related knowledge and skills acquired by delegates in their earlier studies and provide a strategic understanding of financial management policy and practices. It will provide a sound understanding of modern corporate finance theory and practice and will also review key aspects of current management accounting practice and techniques.

Learning Outcome - Upon successful completion of the course, delegates will be able to:

use contribution approach & quantitative techniques to analyse & solve a range of problems
prepare and analyse a range of plans & budgets with the use of spreadsheet software and use same to do “what if?” analysis
compute accurately and critically the costs for products & jobs using absorption costing & ABC
analyse stock & profit statements using marginal and absorption costing principles
evaluate the behavioural implications of budgeting
evaluate different approaches to budgeting e.g. incremental & ZBB
critically analyse direct cost variances using the planning & operational approach
critically analyse sales & fixed overhead variances for marginal & absorption costing environments
evaluate the implications of recent management trends e.g. TQM, JIT for management accounting systems & techniques
evaluate & solve problems using current techniques in the context of manufacturing & service industries e.g. ZBB, ABC/B, quality costing, contribution analysis, DCF, LP.
critically analyse relevant costs & appropriate techniques for decision making & use them to facilitate the solution of a range of realistic management problems
critically interpret performance measures appropriate to different business situations
evaluate a range of pricing methods, including transfer pricing situations