Introduction
As a leader in your organization, the decisions you make can have a significant impact on your company's financial health. This program will help you assess the value of your strategic decisions by giving you a broader understanding of finance and the interaction between business strategy and financial strategy. In this program, you will achieve a more sophisticated understanding of how the tools of modern finance can be used to evaluate investment opportunities and make capital structure and capital management decisions to drive organizational value.
Program Objectives
- Communicate more effectively with financial executives within the organization and with important external stakeholders such as analysts and investors
- Gain a sophisticated understanding of how to use financial statements to better understand the economics of other entities, including competitors.
- Obtain a deeper understanding of how your organization’s economic outcomes are reflected in its financial statements, and how those statements are used inside and outside the organization.
- Develop a strong strategic intuition to make smart investment decisions.
- Learn how to manage external communications and capital to avoid unwanted attention from activist investors, short-sellers, and other corporate predators.
- Learn why optimizing management of capital, including liquidity and leverage, can affect firm value and how to value other businesses.
- Better understand how to use modern valuation techniques to evaluate investment opportunities, including M&A and LBOs.
- Understand entrepreneurial finance, including private equity and venture capital.
Personal Impact
This program aims to deepen your skills and understanding of current trends in capital markets and corporate finance to increase value and improve performance in your organization. Topics include how to evaluate and finance capital investment projects, M&A, the role of private equity and nontraditional financing, and formulating strategy
Target Audience
The program is for executives in finance-related roles or those who have strategic financial oversight of their unit or organization, and have at least a basic understanding of accounting and finance. This program is also an excellent fit for those who expect to have more financial responsibility in the future
RECOMMENDED TITLES
- General Manager
- Managing Director
- Director of Finance
- Financial Advisor
- Controller
- Treasurer
- General Counsel
- VP
- President
- C-suite
Program Outlines
Day 1
FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS AND CASH FLOW FORECASTING
- Learn terminology, review financial statements, cash flows, and DuPont formula
- Use DuPont analysis to understand drivers of profitability
- Evaluate the quality of earnings analysis
- Understand free cash flow versus earnings
Day 2
INVESTMENT DECISIONS AND VALUATION
- Evaluate projects using net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR)
- Calculate cost of capital: weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Study valuation methods: discounted cash flow (DCF), multiples, adjusted present value (APV)
- Apply valuation to M&A deals
Day 3
ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE
- Gain an overview of entrepreneurial finance, PE, VC, and LBOs
- Learn a new venture strategy
- increasing revenue
- increasing profit margins
- retrenching in times of hardship
- earning a return on investment.
Day 4
FINANCE AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR THE SERIOUS ENTREPRENEUR
- Understand financing sources
- Understand the basics of capital structure decisions and how these decisions affect the value
- Learn the differences among financial instruments to implement desired capital structure
- Examine distressed debt
CREATING SHAREHOLDER VALUE
- Explore practical perspectives: corporate governance and the role of boards; CFO viewpoint
Day 5
FORMULATING STRATEGY
- Understand the vital difference between goals, strategy, and management: which are easy and which are difficult?
- The role of top management in setting strategy: what is the real challenge great strategists see?
- Analyze competitors: how to better think about and predict competitors’ actions and why this is critical for success
- Collect data to build your strategy: how to decide which data are useful among the many sources
About London
The UK capital of London is a city that combines the old and the new. It is as equally famous for the latest fashion and innovation as it is for its impressive heritage. London's attractions range from the Royal Palace to the DIY atmosphere of its markets. It is also a picturesque city of parks and of course, the majestic Thames River. The city extends for miles beyond its ancient core and each neighborhood has its own charming atmosphere for visitors to explore. London also wears its status as a world city proudly and the influence of different cultures is plain to see in the food and fashion of the capital.
Things to do and places to visit in London
With so many attractions in London, anyone can find something to delight them. Art lovers will enjoy the world-renowned museums and galleries, most of which are free. Sports fans are spoilt for choice by the city's array of football clubs. Theatre and music fans have a vast list of venues to visit, whilst shopaholics have Harrods, Oxford Street, Camden and much more to look forward to after arranging flights to London.
Some unmissable London attractions include:
- Seeing priceless masterpieces in the Tate Britain or the National Gallery.
- Watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace.
- Visiting Trafalgar Square's famous monument.
- Marveling at the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.
- Getting a bird's eye view of the city from the London Eye.
- Tasting one of Brick Lane's famous curries.
- Browsing the exclusive shops of Knightsbridge.
- Visiting a market – Spitalfields for antiques, Camden for clothes or Borough Market for street food.
- Admiring design from around the world in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Looking for clues at the home of fiction's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
- Strolling through one of the lovely parks, including Hyde Park, St James' Park or Kew Gardens.
- Eating Britain's most famous dish, fish and chips.
- Watching the street performers in Covent Garden.
- Enjoying the views at a South Bank cafe.