• Evaluate the financial health of a business using financial statements.

• Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed and how each interact.

• Prepare and evaluate financial forecasts to make strategic decisions.

• The Cash Budget

  • Understanding Accounting for Managers

  • Core Accounting Concepts

  • Receipts and Payments Timing

  • Gross Profit and Margin Calculation

• Budgets and Performance Management

  • Responsibility Centres and Their Roles

  • Principles of Controllability

  • Measuring Profit-Related Performance

  • Standard Costing and Variance Analysis

  • Managing Performance in Investment Centres

  • Indicators of Non-Financial Performance

  • Using the Balanced Scorecard

  • Performance Metrics in Non-Profit Organisations

  • External Factors Impacting Performance

• Introduction to the Statement of Profit and Loss

• How to Measure Profit

  • Basics of Double-Entry Bookkeeping

  • Different Types of Accounts

  • Preparing a Trial Balance

  • Differentiating Capital and Revenue Expenditure/Income

  • Cost of Sales Calculation

• Balancing the Basics

  • Understanding Assets and Liabilities

  • The Statement of Financial Position Explained

  • Managing Accruals and Prepayments

• Accounting for Depreciation and Bad Debts

  • Depreciation Using the Straight-Line Method

  • Depreciation Using the Reducing-Balance Method

  • Handling Disposals of Non-Current Assets

  • Accounting for Bad and Doubtful Debts

  • Evaluating the Statement of Financial Position

• Company Finance

  • Characteristics of Limited Companies

  • Understanding Share Capital

  • Role of the Stock Exchange

  • Introduction to Venture Capital

  • Loan Capital and Debentures Overview

  • Utilizing Retained Profits

  • Compliance with Reporting Requirements

• Company Accounts

  • Components of the Statement of Profit or Loss

  • Statement of Changes in Equity

  • Analyzing the Statement of Financial Position

  • Valuing Intangible Assets

  • Revaluation of Assets

  • Components of the Statement of Comprehensive Income

  • Principles of Corporate Governance

• The Statement of Cash Flows

  • Identifying Sources of Cash Flow

  • Impact of Non-Current Assets on Cash Flows

  • Changes in Working Capital

  • Accounting for Tax, Interest, and Dividends

  • Key Insights from the Statement of Cash Flows

  • Strategies for Cash Management

• Interpreting Financial Statements

  • Techniques for Ratio Analysis

  • Understanding the Pyramid of Ratios

  • Analyzing Profitability Ratios

  • Liquidity Ratios Examination

  • Effective Working Capital Management

  • Understanding the Working Capital Cycle

• Capital Structure and Investment Ratios

  • Overview of Capital Structure

  • Key Investment Ratios

  • Recognizing Limitations of Ratio Analysis

Transfer Your training path continues in your participant space. Log in to access resources, self-assess your skills acquired during your training, and facilitate the implementation of your commitments in your professional context.

• Numerous practical examples illustrating the different studied concepts

• Practical cases carried out in Excel by the participants at each key stage of the training

• Accountants

• Auditors

• Mission Managers in Accounting Firms

• Staff from the accounting and finance function

• New accounting staff

• Non financial executives and managers

• None

• Training structured around skill transfer

• Acquisition of operational skills through practice and experimentation

• Collaborative learning during synchronous sessions

• Multi-stage learning path to allow engagement, learning, and transfer

• Training promoting participant engagement for better anchoring of lessons

• 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, NF Service Certified Solution

  • 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