Finance for the Boardroom Brochure

Programme details The Finance for the Boardroom programme addresses the challenges you face when interpreting corporate financial data and discussing strategic decision making at board level. You gain best practice models to: • support your role. • understand long-term value and how to best achieve it. • effectively recognise the cost of capital and determine appropriate capital structure. • implement investment appraisal techniques. • understand company valuation methods. • gain advanced insights into what your organisation’s accounts really tell you and what they don’t disclose.

Duration: Three days residential

Day one • What is shareholder value and why does it matter? • Balancing risk and return. • Cost of capital. • Seven drivers of value. • Linking financial and business strategy. • What the accounts tell us. • Interpreting the balance sheet and income statement. • Ratio analysis.

Day two • Commonly-used methods of investment appraisal. • Making the business case. • Common errors in preparing forecasts. Day three • Acquisitions. • Additional content dependent on participants’ aims, for example: Initial Public Offerings (floating a company) or Private Equity.

www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/fbb

+44 (0)1234 754500

execdev@cranfield.ac.uk

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