A CPD Certified Training Course
Certificate in Practical Finance and Accounting
Essential Tools for Business Management
Course Introduction
Accounting is often described as the language of business—it's the essential means by which managers communicate a firm's financial and economic information to external parties, such as shareholders and creditors. In today's business environment, financial illiteracy is a significant disadvantage.
Every company's narrative, regardless of its size, industry, or geographical location, is conveyed through its financial records and reports. Financial statements detail crucial aspects such as income, debt, revenue versus expenses, compensation, and the costs associated with retaining customers.
For non-financial managers, understanding financial statements and providing financial justification for decisions becomes imperative. When you must base decisions on numbers generated by others, lacking the ability to interpret these figures and ask the right questions can greatly diminish your effectiveness.
This Certificate in Practical Finance and Accounting will guide you through the fundamentals of finance and accounting. This course will help you grasp the essential systems and procedures of business accounting, enabling you to navigate and utilize financial information with confidence. Through this course, you'll gain the skills to better understand financial data, improve your decision-making process, and effectively communicate financial matters within your organization.
Training Objectives
By the end of this CPD Certificate in Practical Finance and Accounting training course, you will be able to:
- Be Aware of How Financial Markets Can Support Efficient Business Operations
- Read and Understand Annual Financial Reports, and Be Aware of How They Are Prepared
- Understand How Business Accounting Systems Work
- Identify and Appraise Wealth-Generating Investments
- Apply a Range of Management Accounting Techniques to Maintain or Improve Profitability
Who should Attend?
This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals in all types of industries, who wish to better understand the practical benefits of accounting and finance for their business. It will be particularly useful for:
- Financial and Business Advisors
- Business Entrepreneurs
- Members of the Operational Management Team
- Those Who are Starting Their Careers in Finance and Accounting
- Non-Executive Board Members on the Audit Committee
Course Outline
- Why we need accounting systems
- Identification, recording and understanding transactions in the accounting system
- The income statement (statement of comprehensive income)
- The balance sheet (statement of financial position)
- The statement of cash flows
- Applying accounting concepts, and financial reporting standards and exercising professional judgment
- Presentation of the financial statements
- The differences between assets and expenses
- Depreciation of long-term assets
- Inventory costs and cost of goods sold (COGS)
- Analysis of the financial statements
- Interpretation of the financial statements
- Management accounting for effective communication and decision-making
- Identifying product costs and measuring output
- Cost-volume-profit (CVP) and break-even analysis
- Preparing and using budgets to plan and control the organisation
- Actual to budget performance comparison
- Using variance analysis to drive performance improvement
- An overview of financial institutions and markets
- Sourcing and raising finance
- Choice of the most appropriate financing
- Return on investment and the cost of capital
- Foreign currency transactions
- Managing foreign currency exchange rate and interest rate risk
- Identifying value-adding capital investment opportunities
- Investment appraisal using accounting rate of return (ARR) and payback
- Discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques: net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR)
- Making investment choices when funds are limited
- Risk and uncertainty
- Incorporating risk into the investment decision
Accreditation
Providers and Associations
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
- CPD Certificate will be issued to delegates who successfully completed the training course in accordance with the international standards and principles of The CPD Certification Service
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