Financial Intelligence for Strategic Leaders

Programme experience

The three-day programme is designed to offer practical and adaptable content to address the real-world challenges you face when interpreting corporate financial data and discussing strategic decision making at a senior level. You will benefit from the creative practices, diverse ideas, and successful methods that the programme director and your peers on the course have used to overcome challenges in a range of sectors. You will leave fully equipped with the tools and frameworks needed to successfully improve financial performance and shareholder value in your organisation. The programme delivers best practice models to: • Support you in your role and increase your strategic impact. • Und erstand long-term value and how to best achieve it. • Recognise the cost of capital and determine appropriate capital structure. • Implement investment appraisal techniques. • Understand your organisation’s valuation methods. • Gain advanced insights into what your organisation’s accounts really tell you and what they don’t disclose.

• Making the business case. • Commonly used methods of investment appraisal. • Avoiding common pitfalls in financial forecasting. • Balancing risk and return in capital allocation. • Understanding and applying the cost of capital. • Linking investment, financing and business strategy. Day two

• What is shareholder value and why does it matter. • The seven drivers of value creation • What financial statements reveal about performance. • Interpreting the balance sheet and income statement. • Financial ratio analysis for decision making • Linking financial statements to business strategy Day one

• Company valuation: The income approach. • Company valuation: The market approach. • Applying valuation to corporate transactions. Day three

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