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Understanding Company Accounts

Understanding Company Accounts

Accounting, Corporate Finance

Duration: Two days

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This is a highly participative 2 day programme featuring, case studies, exercises and syndicate work. It is aimed at staff who need to be able to take a set of accounts and understand the story behind them. The course will cover accounting jargon and the real meaning of financial statements. We will cover ratios and measures such as, gearing, EBIT and EBITDA. The course combines basic accounting principles with financial analysis skills. It is designed for those with no previous accounting experience.

Schedule

Day One

Session 1:

Reading Accounts – an essential management skill

What is financial information?
Reviewing financial statements:
Profit and Loss Account, Cash Flow Statement, Balance Sheet
How they are produced
Why they are needed
How they inter-relate
Users

Session 2:

Components of a Balance Sheet

Assets and Liabilities
Working Capital Cycle
Sources of capital and funding, gearing

Session 3:

Components of a Profit and Loss Account

Income
Expenses
Why profit does not equal cash
Case study - In which delegates produce financial statements and learn about the inter relationships

Day Two

Session 1:

Cash Flow Statements

How to read them

Session 2:

Using Ratios to help you understand:

Key Investor measures
Concepts of relative and absolute measurement
Profitability
Liquidity

Session 3:

Review of Accounting Standards

Discussing the impact on the balance sheet of the recent new accounting standards
Case study

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