About
Overview:
This one-week intensive course provides business professionals with a comprehensive understanding of financial management as practiced by today’s leading companies. It demystifies the complexities of finance, furnishing essential tools and insights to achieve professional goals and support the objectives of the organizations they serve.
Outline:
Module I: Essentials of Corporate Financial Management (Days 1-3)
Day 1: Corporate Financial Planning & Strategic Management
- Introduction to Corporate Financial Planning
- Strategic Planning and the Objectives of the Firm
- Agency Theory: Shareholder vs. Management Interests
- Creative Accounting: Lessons from Enron
- Preparing a Strategic Plan
- Financial Planning Scope, Role & Responsibilities
- The Master Budget and Cash Flow Forecasting Techniques
Day 2: Financing Decisions & Budgeting Techniques
- Financing the Strategic Plan: Sources of Finance
- Evaluating Equity and Debt Financing
- Understanding the Cost of Capital: WACC and CAPM
- Capital Investment Process: NPV, IRR and Payback
- Preparing and Managing Budgets: Types and Benefits
- Budgeting Techniques: Activity-Based Budgeting & Variance Analysis
- Budgetary Control and Responsibility Accounting
Day 3: Cash Flow Management & Risk Management
- Managing and Controlling Cash Flow
- The Cash Conversion Cycle and Working Capital Management
- Identifying and Evaluating Financial Risks
- Establishing a Risk Management Strategy
- Introduction to Hedging Techniques: Derivatives Overview
- Risk Management Tools: Forwards, Options, and Futures
Module II: Financial Decision-Making Skills (Days 4-5)
Day 4: Financial Markets and Investment Analysis
- Overview of Financial Markets: Equity and Bond Markets
- Evaluating Investment Opportunities: CAPM and Portfolio Theory
- Time Value of Money and Discounted Cash Flow Techniques
- Introduction to Real Options and Scenario Analysis
- Practical Application: Investment Appraisal through NPV and IRR
Day 5: Corporate Finance & Risk Management Strategies
- The Corporate Financing Decision and Financial Leverage
- Understanding Capital Structure Theory
- Exploring the Dividend Decision and the Clientele Effect
- Practical Application of Risk Management Strategies
- Hedging Using Financial Instruments: Options and Futures
- Real-World Case Study: Risk Management in Practice
Training Methodology:
This course will emphasize a participative, learning-by-doing approach, incorporating short case studies, team exercises, and individual analyses. Delegates will gain both theoretical knowledge and practical skills, ensuring confidence and readiness to apply techniques in the workplace.
Organizational Impact:
Participants will develop transferable skills that enhance corporate financial planning, drive profit, improve cash flow, and minimize risk, thus contributing to strategic business objectives.
Personal Impact:
Delegates will leave with a robust understanding of contemporary issues in financial management, enabling them to make informed decisions that enhance their value to the organization.
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
