Training Details
First day
- The nature of financial analysis:
Definition of financial analysis.
Uses of financial analysis.
The scientific approach to financial analysis.
- Financial analysis and investment.
- Financial analysis of new projects:
Definition and classification of investment projects.
Distinguish between capital spending and revenue spending.
the second day
- The concept of the feasibility study:
Good feasibility study characteristics.
The general framework of the feasibility study.
Steps involved in the feasibility study process.
The concept and components of the marketing study.
The concept and components of the technical study.
The concept and components of the financing study.
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- Project Feasibility Evaluation:
Important accounting rules in evaluating projects.
The concept of time value of money and its importance in evaluating projects.
How to calculate project cash flows.
the third day
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- Project feasibility assessment methods:
Traditional methods of project evaluation.
Accounting rate of return.
- Payback period.
Modern methods of project evaluation.
The net present value method.
The internal rate of return method.
Profitability indicator.
The concept and applications of break-even analysis.
Sensitivity analysis.
the fourth day
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- Financial analysis of existing projects:
Sources of data and information in financial analysis.
- Historical financial statements (balance sheet/income statement/statement of changes in owners’ equity/statement of funds sources and uses/cash flow statement).
Financial analysis standards.
The fifth day
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- Financial analysis tools.
- Financial ratios method (liquidity analysis / profitability analysis / activity analysis and turnover rates / financing structure analysis / investment ratio analysis).
- Vertical / structural analysis of the financial statements.
- Horizontal/trend analysis of the financial statements.
- Analysis of the change in the financial position, and analysis of cash flows.