Duration: 3 Days
Course Overview
Maintain a competitive edge by making effective and optimal investment decisions.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
This program teaches you how to:
• Select cost-effective projects and capital investments using financial analyses and feasibility methods
• Determine the impact of cash flow on business decisions
• Interpret and evaluate business and financial performance using rations
• Work with and calculate depreciation
• Learn to master costing techniques and appreciate the mechanics of product costing
• Evaluate and understand the strengths and weaknesses of the competitor companies in the industry based on published information
Course Content
Course Structure
The course is structured and focused on understanding how companies can maintain a competitive edge by making effective and optimal investment decisions.
Each module is underpinned by workshop-based, real-world case studies. The overall approach is geared towards facilitating and divulging information and skills relevant to the practical needs of the attendees, and includes the following topics:
• Determine how to select projects and capital investments using the following methods: Payback Period; Return on Investment; Discounted Cash Flow; Net Present Value; Internal Rate of Return; Expected Monetary Value.
• Impact of cash flow on business decisions: Return on capital employed using cash generated from operations; Cash generated from operations versus debt; Predicting a cash flow crisis
• Performance ratios: Return on Capital; Capital Turnover; Working Capital; Current Ratios; Debtors Ratio; Liquidity; Efficiency; Risk evaluation
• Business valuation methods and investor analysis ratios: EPS, P/E Gearing/Leverage; Business Trends
• Costing approaches: Fixed & variable costs; Absorption and marginal costing; Determine costs in different types of industries; Product, Process & Job costing; Compare and contrast costing methods.