FINANCIAL ANALYSIS FOR NON-FINANCIAL MANAGERS
Tuition: $4,500* (3 Day Program)
Overview
Today’s rising managers need both financial acumen (knowledge) and financial acuity (practical insight & application) to succeed in their organizations. Talented individuals reach the point in their careers when future advancements and promotions are
contingent upon a specific set of crucial skills. Among these skills are a sharp managerial appreciation of accounting and finance.
In each half of each day of the Program, the curriculum seeks to achieve these
educational goals through a combination of interactive lecture, class discussion, and
group-based cases/quizzes/Excel analyses.The approach is open and collaborative.
At the end of the Program, you will be equipped to evaluate your organization’s
finances, interact with your organization’s accounting & finance professionals, and put
your knowledge into action through superior financial analysis and decision-making.
Who should attend
Mid-level managers through executives who:
– Have little or no training in finance
– Need a review of important, fundamental financial concepts
Participants of this program will:
Key benefits
– Learn the important terms of the language of accounting and finance
– Acquire the skills to create and analyze basic income statements, balance sheets,
and cash flow statements
– Improve their knowledge of the components of costs and how costs
affect pricing decisions
– Evaluate results reported in financial statements using ratio analysis
*Tuition includes instruction, materials, continental breakfast, and lunch. Accommodations not included.
To encourage group participation, multiple participant discounts are available.
Subject to change.
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Key benefits
– Create and understand pro-forma financial statements
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– Learn major functions and contributions of finance
– Learn basic framework for organizing financial decisions
– Learn key issues in estimating debt and equity costs of capital
– Learn how to structure and evaluate an investment project
– Learn the major ways to value a single project or an entire firm
– Learn how to use Excel in financial decisions
– Help organizations make smart operating, investing, and financing decisions
– Gain insight into the fundamental economic value of an organization
– Earn 2.1 Continuing Education Units
Accounting & The Organization
– Master NPV and IRR time value of money computations
Program content
– Organizational basics
– Financing, investing, and operating activities
– Business cash flows
– Purpose of accounting
– Who are the accounting people and what do they do?
– Auditors and capital markets
Financial Statements
– Accrual nature of accounting: Cash flow ≠ income
– Balance sheet
– Income statement (P&L)
– Statement of cash flows
– What is in and not in financial statements and why
– Exercise: Create simple financial statements
– Understand Walmart’s financial statements
Costs and Profit
– Diversity of costs in a business
– Cost/volume/profit analysis
– Profitability leverage
– Role of costs in pricing decisions
– Exercise: Symphony Orchestra pricing
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Program content Financial Statement Analysis
(continued) – Common size and PELL ratio tools
– Profitability analysis
– Return on equity (ROE) – what does it mean?
– Decomposing the size, source, and persistence of ROE
– Working capital efficiency ratios
– Understand Walmart’s PELL ratios
– Valuation-based P/E ratios
– Exercise: Ratios-Tell-A-Story
Finance
– What is finance?
– Who are the financial people and what do they do?
– Oiling the business
– Financing a project or business
– Pro-forma forecasting of future financial statements
– Exercise: HBS Tire City Inc. case
Value Creation (And Destruction)
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hen do entities create value?
– How can value be measured?
– Role of finance in value creation
Basic Financial Math
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iscounting to the present
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Compounding into the future
PV and FV calculations
Relation of risk to return
Capital Budgeting
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aluing forecasted cash flows
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NPV, IRR, and Payback rules
Using financial math to value an investment project
Exercise: Inventory Management Machine
Valuing A Firm
– Integrating accounting & finance together
– Cost of debt and cost of equity
– Exercise: Work thru IDEKO valuation
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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS FOR NON-FINANCIAL MANAGERS
Our facilities
How to enroll
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T he Financial Analysis For Non-Financial Managers program is held at the Rizzo
Conference Center inChapel Hill, North Carolina. The Rizzo Conference Center offers
unparalleledconference venues, meeting facilities, and hotel accommodations that
are designed and built to encourage meaningful reflection and lasting learning.
You can enroll online for this program by:
– Clicking on the “Enroll” button on the right hand side of the Financial Analysis
for Non-Financial Managers webpage
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licking on the “All Other Open Enrollment Programs Form” link under
the “Enrollment Forms” heading and selecting the date and title of the
program in which you wish to enroll
– Filling in the requested information and clicking on ”Submit”
Please call 1-800-UNC-EXEC if you need assistance with the registration process.
For more information
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