As a Financial Manager, how are you differentiating your organization from competition? What financial strategic options do you consider?

Companies today are facing a more and more global, complex and unstable market environment. Instead of looking for long-term strategic sustainable alternatives, many companies are focused on short-term profit maximizing. This situation generates a lot of pressure cascaded down from the Board of Directors to the Senior Management, from the Senior Management to the Middle Management and from the Middle Management to the individual employee.

Register to this intensive 3-day financial management training programme focused on practical learning, designed and facilitated by senior financial professionals that understand your challenges and will guide you to find effective solutions. Bring your strategic dilemmas to the programme and get direction on analytical and organizational approaches. You will return back to work with more confidence, make more intelligent and rational decisions and ensure your strategic initiatives are effective.

This financial management training combines proven-by-practice methods with new insights and ideas that will help you set a successful financial strategy and create financial value in your organization.

Financial Excellence: Create Value in Your Organization is a 3-days hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former financial management experience in international companies.

Programme Outline:

DAY 1

Module 1: Main value creation contributors

• Value creation definition
• Major value creation contributors
• Innovation
• Intangibles
• Value driven business system

Module 2: Strategic options to create value

• Strategic options based on the customer value proposition
• Organic growth
• External growth
• Operational excellence

DAY 2

Module 1: Traditional role of Finance

• The theoretical balancing act
• Compliance & Fiduciary duty
• Business support

Module 2: From Finance Manager to Sparing Partner

• Leading the team
• The wider role
• Accountancy versus Business versus time

Module 3: The Trusted Advisor

• Definition
• Characteristics of a Trusted Advisor
• Becoming a Trusted Advisor: the ten behaviours
• Becoming a source of proposal by having the clients' (external & internal) best interest in mind

DAY 3 

Module 1: Metrics to measure shareholder value

• Internal growth
• Investment appraisal (Discounted cash flow, NPV, IRR)
• Economic value added
• External growth
• Principles of M & A
• Company valuation methods

Module 2: Metrics to measure the stakeholder value: The balanced scorecard:

• Definition
• The balanced scorecard strategic map
• The balanced scorecards process
• The business pyramid with measurable indicators
• Critical success factors
• KPIs

You are a finance or business manager with 8+ year's experience and a good understanding of business finance. This programme gives you the finance skills you need to move to the next level and create value for your organization.

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Typical Particpants:

• Senior Managers
• Managers