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:
• Analyse and understand key report’s, including: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Shareholders’ Equity and Cash Flow Statement
• Appreciate the nature of depreciation, and its origin, including the various methodologies used in the industry
Understand how accounting and finance concepts and related and integrated, and how they underpin managerial decisions
• Identify how to use financial information in your planning and analysis, for expenditures and project financing
• Understand how operations and financial strategies/plans impact the overall business performance and culture
• Gain an insight into accounting policies and principles
• Determine how to select projects and capital investment expenditures 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 rations; 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 and Variable costs; absorption and marginal costing: Determine costs in different types of industries; Process and Job Costing; Compare and contract costing methods.