• Translate the company's operations into financial terms

• Explain accounting logic and the connection between documents

• Adopt simple tools to analyze a balance sheet and an income statement

Translate the Company's Operations into Financial Terms

• Identify the cash flows of a real operation

• The 4 pillars of corporate finance: financing, investing, performing, profiting

• Investments, financing, self-financing: EBITDA, Operating Cash Flow...

• The company's operations and resulting cash flows

• Quiz: company operations that do or do not impact cash flow

• Practical case: determine the cash flows from the description of an activity

Translate a Real Operation into Accounting

• Transition from cash flow to accounting

• The concepts of assets and value and their representation in the balance sheet and income statement

• Typical structures of the balance sheet and income statement

• Quiz: what a balance sheet is and is not

• Quiz: differences between assets-value / cash flows

• Practical case: build the balance sheet and income statement from the activity's cash flows

Explain Accounting Logic and Document Connection

• Explain why the balance sheet is an essential document that changes with each operation

• The impact of routine operations (purchases, sales, investments, financing...) on the balance sheet and income statement

• Why some operations affect the income statement and others do not

• Understand the difference between calculated expenses (depreciation, provisions) and expenses impacting cash flow

• Practical case: calculate the effect of selected operations on the balance sheet and income statement

Explain the Usefulness of Financial Statements

• A legal obligation: communication tools for stakeholders (shareholders, creditors, clients, the state, employees...)

• Tools to measure and manage the company's economic and financial performance

• How careful analysis of the accompanying notes usefully complements the reading of the balance sheet and income statement

• Distinguish the contents of the 3 packages: accounting, tax, consolidation

• Practical case: practice handling an accounting or tax package

Adopt Simple Tools to Analyze a Balance Sheet and Income Statement

• Explain the structure of a balance sheet and an income statement from real data

• The principle of constructing the balance sheet: the permanent balance between the funds made available to the company and their use

• The content of the main balance sheet items: tangible and intangible assets, financial investments, inventory, receivables, cash, equity, financial debts, operating or non-operating debts, depreciation

• The principle of constructing the income statement: recording all changes in the value of the company's assets

• The content of the main aggregates: revenue, EBIT, operating result, financial result, exceptional result, net result

• Practical case: calculate amounts in a balance sheet and income statement to analyze them, compare with companies from different sectors

Calculate Financial Analysis Ratios

• Solvency ratios

• Financial structure ratios

• Margin ratios

• Profitability ratios

• Practical case: calculate and comment on the ratios of several companies and make a comparative judgment

Transfer

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• Test your knowledge on key points of corporate finance​

• An operational approach to corporate finance accessible to all

• Active learning based on business cases

• Project Managers

• Legal Managers

• Lawyers

• Non-financial Managers

• Anyone wishing to understand financial logic and the link between business operations and financial statements

• No prerequisites necessary

• 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

• Skill assessment will be carried out throughout the training by the participant (self-assessment) and/or the trainer according to the training modalities.

• Evaluation of the training action online in your participant area:

  • Immediately after the training to measure your satisfaction and perception of skill evolution relative to the training objectives. With your consent, your overall score and comments will be published on our site through Verified Reviews.

  • Sixty days post-training to validate the transfer of your acquired skills to the work situation

• Attendance tracking and issuance of an individual training certificate or a certificate of completion