Convertas Finance for Lawyers Convertas
Price: USD 3,995

Course details

Day 1

Introduction to Financial Analysis
  • Identifying the relationship between cash flow and profit
  • Development of an integrated cash flow model
  • Recognizing it’s all about cash
  • Understanding the relationships between the 3 main accounting statements.

Fundamentals of Accounting Statements - The Profit & Loss Account
  • How the P&L has changed over the last 25 years
  • Detailed review of the Profit and Loss Account
  • Profit types - trading, asset and business
  • Inventory, Depreciation, Capitalised interest
  • Minority interests and consolidation
  • Exceptional and material items
 
Day 2

Fundamentals of Accounting Statements - The Balance Sheet
  • Detailed review of the Balance Sheet
  • Understanding the fixed assets note
  • Accounting goodwill – what is it?
  • Liabilities, pension fund accounting
  • Debt and other liabilities like debt
  • Deferred tax, contingent liabilities
 
Understanding Cash Flows
  • Detailed review of the Cash Flow Statement
  • Analyzing and interpreting cash flows
  • Summarizing cash flows for analysis
  • Cash Flow Analysis
  • Defining free cash flow

Day 3

Financial Analysis Techniques – Ratio Analysis
  • Objectives of ratio analysis
  • Developing ratio analysis skills
  • Understanding the classic ratios
  • How much information is there in ratios?
  • Ratio rules – avoiding errors of principle

Evaluating Capital Investment Projects
  • Introduction to capital budgeting
  • Discounted cash flow techniques
  • Calculating the internal rate of return

Day 4

Economic and Country Risk
  • Understanding the indicators & signals
  • Implications of macro-economic change for Investors, Banks and Businesses
Funding Structures
  • The relationship between business risk & financial risk
  • The four phases of the corporate life-cycle
  • Identifying appropriate funding structures
  • Recognizing the drivers of funding strategies

Credit Analysis - The Basic Concepts
  • Introducing credit analysis frameworks
  • Financial analysis - review of the issues
  • Non-financial analysis – Developing a framework
 
Day 5

Overview of Non-Financial Analysis
  • Strategy analysis - what is strategy/business risk?
  • Overview of strategy terminology and concepts.
 
Techniques for Corporate Assessment
  • SWOT/Environmental analysis
  • Porters five forces
  • Boston portfolio matrix
  • Environments matrix
Updated on 16 May, 2024

Eligibility / Requirements

There are no eligibility requirement to attend this course.

About Convertas

CONVERTAS is a reliable advisory firm, helping organizations develop their activities to align with their objectives adopting the best practices.

Our trainings and workshops cover all areas of business including Management,Soft Skills and Human Resourses Management, Marketing and Sales, Accounting and Finance, Procurement  and Logistics, targeting organizations, managers and employees. Whether in-house or public, trainings are organized with the highest qualified trainers.

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Moreover, doing and teaching are the best vehicles for learning and remembering. This includes involving the trainee in the teaching process by interacting, through completing worksheets and inciting to explain and present what is acquired.

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