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AMA’s Finance Workshop for Nonfinancial Executives Seminar
Seminar No: 01104 -XNBB
CEU Credits: 2.4
Length: 4 days
Get a complete financial education in just four days... make more powerful, informed business decisions.
From finance basics to understanding cash flow and corporate value creation, this comprehensive program covers it all. Through actual case studies and annual reports of major U.S. public companies, you’ll come away better equipped to speak and interact intelligently with your finance colleagues...analyze financial statements with new clarityknow the workings of the financial markets...and understand that the core purpose of your firm is to increase shareholder value.
Who Should Attend
Experienced managers, general managers, directors, vice presidents and top executives in sales, marketing, production and manufacturing—as well as those in managerial positions (and up) throughout the organization.
How You Will Benefit
- Gain a thorough understanding of every financial concept, including a complete finance and accounting vocabulary
- Learn how operational and capital budgeting fit into the finance and accounting scheme
- Make the right buy/lease decisions and take advantage of cash discounts offered by vendors
- Effectively assess investment opportunities
- Make more profitable sales by understanding fixed vs. variable costs
- Know how to monitor operating results to achieve long-term financial goals
What You Will Cover
- Accounting essentials: basics of booking transactions...cash and accrual methods of accounting...categorizing assets, liabilities and capital
- Understanding and evaluating financial statements
- Seeing your firm from a "finance perspective"
- Understanding financial ratios used by analysts to assess liquidity, profitability, leverage and risk
- Time value of money
- Preparing and using operational and capital budgets
- How financial markets value a business
- Cost analysis, profit planning and exposures to volume/price risks
Extended/Detailed Course Outline
Learning Objectives
- Gain the Financial Savvy Every Manager Needs for Today’s Competitive Workplace
- Attain a Working Knowledge of Financial Terms and Techniques
- Make Smarter Business Decisions with a Basic Knowledge of Finance
- Understand How to Communicate More Effectively with Financial Executives to Get the Answers You Need
Understanding Bookkeeping and Accounting
- Keep Books and Use Them to Construct Financial Statements, Including a Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows
- Differentiate between the Cost and Accrual Methods of Accounting
- Categorize Assets, Liabilities, and Capital
How to Read an Annual Report
- Read and Understand the Financial Statements of a Fortune 500 Corporation
- Recognize and Interpret the Portions of the Annual Report Required by the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Recognize the Form(s), and Meaning, of the Auditor’s Opinion
- Read and Understand the Importance of Footnotes in Evaluating Financial Statements
The Firm from a "Finance Perspective"
- View the Organization from the "Finance Perspective"
- Discuss the Concepts of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital and EVA©
- Understand the Importance of Cash and the Timing of Cash Flow
- Explain How "Financial Leverage" Creates a Degree of Risk for the Company
Evaluating Financial Statements
Compute the Financial Ratios Used by Financial Analysts to Assess:
- The Liquidity of a Business
- The Profitability of a Business
- The Risk of a Business
- Compute the DuPont Formula, and Discuss What It Means
- Judge and Discuss the Merits and Pitfalls of Each Ratio
- Discuss with Financial People, the Meaning and Implications of "Financial Leverage" in Relation to the Associated Ratios
Operational Budgeting
- Construct a Budget
- Use Budgets Efficiently
- Avoid Budgeting Fallacies
- Work with Different Budgeting Techniques
The Time Value of Money
- Compute a Time Value for Money, and Discuss It with Financial People in Your Organization
- Apply the Simple Mathematics of Compound Interest and of Present Value
Capital Budgeting
- Prepare and Use Capital Budgets
- Apply "Time of Money" to Capital Budgeting
- Use Various Mathematical Techniques in Capital Budgeting
How the Financial Markets Value a Business
- Discuss Different Models of How the Market Values a Business
- Enhance Shareholder Value in Your Organization
Cost Analysis, Profit Planning, and Exposures to Volume/Price Risks
- Categorize Costs in a Different Way, in an Effort to Make Better Business Decisions "At the Margin"
- Utilize a Model That Determines Break-even Levels of Quantity, Price, and Cost
- Understand and Discuss the Meaning of the Term "Operating Leverage"
- Structure Costs When Your Market Has "Volume Risks" vs. When Your Market Has "Price Level Risk"
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New York
AMA executive Conference Center
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Chicago
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San Francisco
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San Francisco, CA 94103
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Washington, DC
Arlington, Virginia
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Arlington, VA 22202
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