Intermediate Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Learn to interpret and analyze financial data and convey credibility!

With today's income shortfalls and unmet forecasts, correctly interpreting financial information is critical to your success. At this seminar you'll learn how to establish financial policy and report on the performance of your department in financial terms.

Past participants of AMA’s Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers. It is also an excellent professional tool for any nonfinancial executive in the public or private sector with some experience with accounting data and financial statements.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:

• Communicate effectively with your organization’s financial executives
• Understand the impact of financial decisions on your firm’s productivity
• Convey financial credibility
• Forecast your company’s financial position, based on its past performance
• Use the financials of your competitors to develop advantageous marketing operations and financial strategies

WHAT YOU WILL COVER:

• Reviewing the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement to establish financial position
• Using financial statements to analyze your company’s sales, liquidity, leverage, capital structure and ROI
• Using Activity-Based Costing and value-added analysis
• Learning finance and accounting fit into the planning and budgeting process
• Analyzing product lines and distribution channels
• Utilizing capital budgeting techniques

Extended Description

Financial Statements

• Understand and Use the Three Key Financial Statements
• – Balance Sheet
• – Income Statement (Profit & Loss Statement)
• – State of Cash Flows
• Give a Summary Overview of the Accounting Process
• Review the Components of Each of the Financials in Order to Facilitate Subsequent Analyses
• Practice the Preparation of the Three Financial Statements
• Explain Your Understanding of the Cash Flow Concept
• Successfully Use and Analyze Information

Using Financial Ratios to Analyze Financial Statements

• Calculate the Key Financial Ratios
• Appreciate How Different Stakeholders View the Financials
• Explore How These Ratios Are Useful in Managing the Business
• Use the Ratios to Focus the Company’s
• – Liquidity
• – Working Capital Management
• – Financial Health
• – Profitability
• Use Ratio Analysis to Identify a Company’s Performance Problems

Sources of Industry Metrics and Analysis

• Identify and Access Sources of Industry Average Ratios
• Use Industry Benchmarking Resources
• Locate and Access Internet, Web Site, and Hard Copy Resources of Valuable Information

Using Discounted Cash Flow to Analyze Return on Investment

• Identify and Evaluate the Strategic Issues Associated with an Investment
• Calculate Return on Investment as an Analytical Tool
• Use Discounted Cash Flow Techniques to Evaluate Business Opportunities
• Appreciate the Value of Incorporating Risk and Uncertainty into Cash Flow Forecasting
• Use Cash Flow Forecasting and ROI Analysis in Business Decision-Making

Financing the Business

• Explain the Differences Between Debt and Equity Financing
• Explain Some of the Risks and Rewards of Debt Financing
• Identify the Many Sources of Working Capital Financing
• Outline the Issues Associated with Loan Maturity versus Cost
• Evaluate the Issues Associated with Company Circumstances and Available Alternative Sources of Financing

Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:

• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:

• manage your priorities effectively
• cultivate more productive working relationships
• increase your on-the-job value
• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

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