Advanced Financial Accounting & Reporting

This interactive training program will develop an understanding of the importance of financial reporting in the business. It will consider how the Annual Report provides an opportunity for the management of a company to account for its actions to the stockholders. The seminar will consider the framework imposed by accounting and financial reporting standards, corporate legislation, and the requirements of stock markets around the world.

The implications of recent financial scandals in the USA, and how these have prompted the strengthening of corporate governance around the world will be discussed.

The training program will also consider the ways in which internal reporting contributes to the control of costs, identification and correction of problems, and how to make and implement profitable decisions.

The highlights of this course will be:

• The formats and structures of company annual reports, and how to read and understand them.
• The generally accepted accounting principles that are applied in the U.S. and Europe
• International rules of corporate governance
• Tools and techniques to evaluate business performance, and to predict future problems.
• The evaluation of new investment proposals – will they add value to your organization?

At the end of this seminar participants will:

• The evaluation of new investment proposals – will they add value to your organization?
• Understand and use analytical tools and techniques in practical case-study situations.
• Appreciate the importance of new investments in maintaining growth and competitiveness, and how these investments should be evaluated.
• Identify the role of accounting standards in the communication of financial results
• Apply key accounting standards to their respective enterprises
• Understand the role of audit

This training program would be relevant to all of those involved in the preparation, presentation, and interpretation of corporate financial reports from both the private and public sectors; in commercial businesses, and government and not-for-profit organizations.

This course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Financial accounting team members
• Financial planning and budgeting professionals
• Strategic planning and head office team members
• Corporate communication and investor relations professionals
• Investment analysts and advisers