Finance for Non-Financial Professionals Level II
Integrating the Company's Financial Logic into Decision Making
Duration : 5 days
Following the "Finance for Non-Financials - Level 1" training or directly based on your prior knowledge, this "Finance for Non-Financials - Level 2" training will provide you with the most effective methods and analytical tools. Upon completion, participants will be able to understand and interpret key indicators to assess the financial situation of a company. They will be able to participate in any retrospective financial analysis or the construction of forecasts.
Learning Objectives
Analyze the company's financial statements: balance sheet and income statement
Measure the company's profitability and cash flows
Evaluate a project or a company using a forecast
Training Program
Analyze the Company's Financial Statements: Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Explain the economic functioning of a company and its financial management
The three activity cycles - investment, operations, financing - and their financial impacts
Permanent financial issues: balance and profitability
The 4 pillars of "financial management": financing, investing, performing, remunerating
Practical case: discover a company through its annual accounts, what conclusions can be drawn?
Analyze a Balance Sheet
How to move from accounting items to balance sheet amounts interpretable from a financial perspective
Practical case: build a financial balance sheet from accounting documentation
Indicators of invested capital and analysis of their efficiency
Financing resources and diagnosis of financial structure
How to assess bankruptcy risk
Practical case: identify financing needs, resources, and their balance
Analyze an Income Statement
Analysis of the structure and formation of the result
Calculation and significance of margin indicators: REX, EBIT, RN, etc.
Practical case: analyze an income statement and evaluate performance
Measure the Company's Profitability and Cash Flows
Measure the company's profitability
Why it is not enough to achieve a positive result to be profitable
Determining capital income and their return
How to move from economic profitability to financial profitability
Practical case: calculate profitability ratios and interpret them
Monitor Cash Flows
Definition of cash flow and its complementarity with the result
Economic cash flows and financing cash flows
Measures of cash gains: Gross Operating Profit, EBITDA, Net Operating Cash Flow
Practical case: calculate cash gain indicators
Financing statements: their presentation and interpretation
Practical case: read and interpret a cash flow statement
Evaluate a Project or a Company Using a Forecast
Build a forecast
The budget forecast (business plan): projecting revenues and expenses
Economic flows (free cash flows) and financing flows
Implementing concepts of EBITDA, CAPEX, OPEX, changes in working capital
Practical case: determine the free cash flows generated by an investment project or a company
Analyze a Forecast
Measure the value and profitability of an operation
Monitor cash flow balance over time
Financial evaluation of a company in addition to asset and comparative evaluations
Practical case: conclude on the profitability and financial balance of an operation or company
Transfer Your training journey continues in your participant area:
Log in to access resources, self-assess the skills acquired during your training, and facilitate the implementation of your commitments in your professional context.
Practice with the E-learning module: financial analysis - key points
Key Points
Corporate finance tools explained to non-financial professionals
During the training, participants use a business plan presentation and calculation template on Excel and have it available afterward
Who Should Attend This Training
Controllers
Business Unit Directors
Project Managers
Accounting Managers
Credit Managers
Treasurers
Legal Managers
Operational Managers and Supervisors
Prerequisities
Basic knowledge of accounting and corporate finance or having completed the training:
Finance for Non-Financials - Level 1
Teaching Methods
Structured training system focused on skill transfer
Acquisition of operational skills through practice and experimentation
Collaborative learning during synchronous sessions
Multi-phase learning path for engagement, learning, and transfer
Training encouraging participant engagement for better retention of teachings
Satisfaction and Evaluation
Skill evaluation will be conducted throughout the training by the participant (self-evaluation) and/or the trainer according to the training methods.
Online training evaluation on your participant space:
Immediate evaluation at the end of the training to measure your satisfaction and perception of skill improvement against training objectives. With your agreement, your overall rating and comments will be published on our site via Verified Reviews.
Post-training evaluation 40 days later to validate the transfer of your acquired skills in the workplace
Attendance tracking and issuance of an individual training certificate or a certificate of completion
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