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. • Understand 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.

Day two

• 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 one

• Commonly used methods of investment appraisal. • Making the business case. • Common errors in preparing forecasts.

Day three

• Acquisitions. • Additional content led by participants’ circumstances and organisational challenges. For example, initial public offerings (floating a company) or private equity.

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