Interpretation & Financial Analytical Skills Made Simple

14-15 Aug, 2017, Vistana Kuala Lumpur

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MR. S. GOBINATHAN, FCCA (UK), MBA (USA), a UK qualified accountant has an extensive professional finance career, spanning over 30 years with BP the leading global oil & gas company and Bristol-Myers Squibb a Fortune 500 US based global pharmaceutical company. His career with BP and Bristol-Myers Squibb has taken him to various countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and more recently Australia. In 2006 here-located to Melbourne Australia and worked for BP Australia for 2 years before setting up his own accounting and management consultancy business there.

 

Throughout his working career, Mr. Gobi has held Finance Controller and Finance Director responsibilities for a wide range of finance related functions including Financial Control, Budgetary Control, Corporate Reporting, Cash Flow Management, Investment Appraisal, Project Commercials, Internal Auditing and Management Information.

 

Mr. Gobi has much experience in critically analysing financial performances, verifying and validating new investments decisions, monitoring budget variances, business risk management and corporate finance. In this course Mr. Gobi would like to share with participants his experience on how Finance professionals in today’s world can move up the corporate ladder by increasing their competency levels by improving their Financial Accounting Interpretation skills.

 

Mr. Gobi is an experienced and well received trainer, having run training courses, both public and in-house, for over 10 years in Malaysia and abroad in various finance areas.

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Vistana Kuala Lumpur
9 Jalan Lumut Off Jalan Ipoh, 50400 Kuala Lumpur,
Phone : 03 4042 8000
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FOCUSING ON
  • Introduction: The Need For Financial Analysis And Interpretation
  • Planning Your Analysis And Interpretation Work Around Target Users
  • Analysing and Interpreting Financial Statements
  • Understanding Costs In A Business For Effective Decision Making
  • Analyzing Business From A Cash Flow Point Of View
  • Analyzing Budgets VS Actual Financial Performance – Latest Techniques You Need To Know
  • Commonly Faced Problems And The Solutions In Financial Analysis And Interpretation
  • Specialized Financial Analysis Situations
OBJECTIVE

This 2 - Day course is designed to improve the understanding and interpretation of financial statements skills of business analysts, accounting professional staff and others involved in preparing financial reports.

 

Financial statements such as the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow are usually prepared by way of routine accounting tasks but normally not understood and analyzed properly to make informed decisions. The main area covered in the course is the commonly requirement of budgets versus actual variances. In addition the course will also cover specialized situations such as projects, fixed asset purchase decisions and loan financing applications.

 

To reinforce the theoretical aspect of the course there will be two class exercises, one on the analytical skills using ratio analysis and the other, identifying and reporting budget versus actual variances.

AFTER ATTENDING THIS COURSE YOU WILL RETURN TO YOUR JOB…
  1. Appreciating the importance and need for Financial Analysis and Interpretation.
  2. Being able to critically review and analysis of the three main Financial Statements; analyzing and interpreting financial statements using Ratio Analysis.
  3. Knowing the type of costs including the latest techniques and how to control costs.
  4. Interpreting cash flow movements to minimize cash shortages.
  5. Knowing the latest techniques in the Actual vs Budget financial variance analysis
  6. Solving problems faced in Financial Analysis and Interpretation.
  7. Understanding financial analysis in specialized situations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
  • Finance Executives
  • Business Analysts
  • Newly qualified Finance Professionals starting their career.
  • Newly promoted Finance Managers or Controllers of small/ medium sized companies.
  • Non finance staff involved in budgets preparation and reporting.
METHODOLOGY
  • Interactive Lectures, Exercises, Case Studies, Discussion and Q & A Session.
DAY 1
9:00 INTRODUCTION: THE NEED FOR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
  • Origins and objectives of accounting.
  • Difference between financial accounting and financial analysis.
  • Financial analysis as a pre-requisite for interpretation and decision making.
  • How quality financial analysis helps you as part of your personal development.
10:45 PLANNING YOUR ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION WORK AROUND TARGET USERS
  • Budget versus Actual variance analysis.
  • Internal Management use for regular performance reviews.
  • Comparative analysis by products/divisions/ branches.
  • Applying for Bank Loans: how banks assess the financial viability.
1:00 Lunch

2:00

ANALYSING AND INTERPRETING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

  • Deeper understanding of the 3 Financial Statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement).
  • Use of Ratios as the main technique for analyzing financial statements.
  • Explaining the 4 main criteria to analyze a business and the relevant ratios.
  • Techniques of writing good management financial analytical reports.

Class Exercise: Calculation and interpretation of Ratios using a Case Study company

3:45 UNDERSTANDING COSTS IN A BUSINESS FOR EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING
  • Review of Variable costs/Fixed Costs/Semi Variable Costs.
  • The new approach: Identifying costs by Controllable and Uncontrollable Costs.
  • Techniques to control costs in a difficult or loss making situation.
5:00 End of Day 1
DAY 2
9:00 ANALYZING BUSINESS FROM A CASH FLOW POINT OF VIEW
  • How mis-management of cash flow can destroy the long term future of a business.
  • Identifying the correct level (safe) level of operating cash flow cycle of a business.
  • Identifying sources of funding options for short term needs.
  • Situations where long term funding is more appropriate.
10:45 ANALYSING BUDGETS VS ACTUAL FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE – LATEST TECHNIQUES YOU NEED TO KNOW
  • Refresher on objectives and benefits of having budgets.
  • Variance analysis – The technique of getting to the root cause of variances and deciding
    on corrective actions: The 3 step drill down approach.
  • Effective written, verbal communication, reporting and presentation skills for Actual vs Budget performance.
  • How to set, allocate and monitor follow through action responsibilities.
Case study/exercise on Variance Analysis and reporting techniques
1:00 Lunch

2:00 COMMONLY FACED PROBLEMS AND THE SOLUTIONS IN FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
  • Techniques to overcome time constraints.
  • Knowing how to identify and focus on the large impact items or variances.
  • Simplifying allocated costs/departmental allocations.
  • How to improve your written and verbal communications skills.
3:45 SPECIALIZED FINANCIAL ANALYSIS SITUATIONS
  • Project tracking and forecasting.
  • Analyzing manufacturing costs overruns.
  • Fixed Asset purchase decisions.
  • Decisions on whether to continue or discontinue a loss making product, service or division.
5:00 End of Course