Financial Analysis

Start Date: 2023-05-15 End Date: 2023-05-19

Scheduled Dates:

    15-19 May 2023

    20-24 November 2023

Venue:                     Windhoek, Namibia

Duration:                 5 days

Course Fee:            USD 1850.00

Course Description

All managers require information to understand how well their businesses are performing, whether new ventures can achieve a reasonable profit, how much debt to take on, etc. on the other having the knowledge to analyse and understand financials is a prerequisite to increasing the value of a company. This course is designed to provide knowledge, skills and experience on how to evaluate past performance and plan for future investments: capital projects and acquisitions.

The Aims of the Course

The course aims to:

• Equip participants with the skills and knowledge to extract meaningful information from financial statements.
• Provide comprehensive information on financial analysis in areas of planning and control suited to anyone on any level desiring this information for either professional or personal use.

Course Objectives

By the end of this training, delegates should be able to:

• Qualitatively and quantitatively defines, reviews, and illustrates the principles of corporate finance, including profit/loss, asset and cash management, operational budgets, cost analysis, profitability, leverage, and decision and risk.
• Interpret numbers in the financial statements.
• Be proficient at calculating and interpreting financial ratios.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to use ratios to compare a firm to its competitors and to evaluate changes in ratios over time.
• Use these ratios to help forecast the future
• Manage the structure of the income statement and the balance sheet to increase shareholder value.
• Choose the right metrics for evaluating a company's solvency.
• Determine your company's debt capacity - how much you can safely borrow.
• Use the statement of cash flow to measure success
• Create a capital project evaluation spreadsheet
• Determine which metrics to use to evaluate capital projects

Target Group

• Finance managers of profit companies succeed.
• Departmental Managers
• Business Unit Managers
• Financial Advisors
• Executive Managers
• Bookkeepers