Target audience:

Course Name: Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Course Duration: 5 days (9am to 1pm), 20 hours

Course Brief: This course is intended to give an overview and understanding of accounting concepts, financial statements,
budgeting and financial decision making.

Topics covered:

• Basic concepts of accounting
• Read, understand and analyze financial statements
• Manage working capital
• Various costing concepts
• Properly work out product cost
• Take decisions on product mix
• Whether to make or buy a product
• Carryout breakeven analysis
• Cost – volume – profit relationship
• Preparing a budget
• Conducting variance analysis
• Taking investment decisions

Course Name: Financial Analysis, Planning & Control

Course Duration: 5 days (9am to 1pm), 20 hours

Course Brief: This course is intended to give an overview of financial management as well as an in-depth understanding of
financial statement analysis.

Topics covered:

• Common sized analysis
• Ratios and their implications
• Vertical and horizontal analysis
• Du-Pont Analysis
• Prepare budgets and carryout variance analysis
• Investment decisions
• Dividend decisions
• Analyze working capital needs and manage it properly
• Various forms of working capital financing
• Cash flow analysis and cash management
• Various ways of fundraising and how to go about doing the same

Course Name: Capital Expenditure Decision Making

Course Duration: 5 days (9am to 1pm), 20 hours

Course Brief: This course is intended to give an overview of various tools and techniques for Capital Expenditure Decision Making.

Topics covered:

• Objective of CAPEX
• Various techniques in CAPEX decision making
• Risk and cost of capital
• Time value of money
• Impact of tax on cash flow / capital structure
• Decide on optimum capital structure
• Lease or buy decisions
• Decisions on mutually exclusive projects
• Appraise project under capital rationing

Course Name: Security Analysis

Course Duration: 5 days (9am to 1pm), 20 hours

Course Brief: This course is intended to equip students on the various parameters on stock selection in order to create a portfolio.

Topics covered:

• Different approaches to valuation
• Read and understand financial statements
• Concept of cost of capital
• Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
• Dynamics between financing risk and beta
• Estimate risk and returns
• Estimate growth
• Discount Cash Flow (DCF) valuation model
• Determinants of relative valuation
• Various relative valuation models

Course Name: Valuation

Course Duration: 7 days (9am to 1pm), 28 hours

Course Brief: This course is intended to equip students on various methods of valuing a company.

Topics covered:

• Different approaches to valuation
• Read and understand of financial statements
• Concept around cost of capital
• Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
• Dynamics between financing risk and beta
• Estimate risk and returns
• Estimate growth
• Discount Cash Flow (DCF) valuation model
• Determinants of relative valuation
• Arbitrage Price Theory model
• Multifactor models
• Various relative valuation models
• Cost approach to valuation
• Valuing startup firms
• How to value private firms
• Option Pricing Model

* Detailed course outline available upon request

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