Comprehensive economic analysis: modern approaches to managing the economics of an enterprise - free course from the Russian School of Management, training, Date: December 6, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 09, 2023
ACCA, MBBA, practicing auditor, specialist in tax, financial, management consulting, business coach
Practicing auditor, business coach, member of the Moscow Chamber of Auditors, Institute of Internal Auditors, Chamber of Tax Consultants of Russia.
Expert in the field of corporate finance, auditing and investment analysis.
MBA teacher at Russian School of Management. Expert in financial management, budgeting and analytics. Implemented more than 100 consulting projects.
Business analysis: key users, questions, reporting forms. Profit and efficiency analysis
• Business analysis: key users, questions, reporting forms. Profit and efficiency analysis
• Cash flow and efficiency analysis
• Types of analysis and their applicability. Key indicators of profitability and profitability
• Indicators used to analyze the market, customers and business processes
• Personnel analysis. Analysis of the Cost-Volume-Profit relationship (C-V-P analysis)
Financial model
• Basic principles of constructing a financial model.
• Financial model, budget, investment plan - practical understanding and application.
• Model – standard structure, sequence of “assembly”.
• Risk and return.
• How important are exceptions to the rules (adaptation of standard forms of financial reporting, introduction of elements of management accounting)?
• Management sections of the model, depth of detail.
• How to solve the problem of investor motivation (dividends, “risk payment”, etc.) and reflect this in the model?
• What risks should be taken into account?
• Differences in the financial structure of the models.
• Use of internal and external analysis tools.
• Practical construction of a financial model.
• Workshop: “Calculation of financial flow according to several proposed options.”
• Testing the generated financial model and generating proposals for making management decisions.
• Dynamic model (assessment of the impact of changes in various parameters on the implementation of the business plan) – demonstration of various development scenarios.
• Product profitability (product picture excluding operating expenses).
• Profit and liquidity (“tuning” the model, smoothing cash gaps) – demonstration with an example.
• Business plan and business process (what is necessary for the financial model to work).
Working capital management
• Assessment and analysis of the company's working capital based on the organization's balance sheet indicators. The main goals of managing the amount of working and net working capital.
• Calculation of working capital requirements to finance operating activities.
• Company strategy and tactics in the field of working capital. Hedging policy: selection of “safe” sources of financing operating assets (inventories and receivables), non-current assets. Certain aspects of the company's inventory management policy. Factors that determine the acceptable level of accounts receivable.
• Theory and practice of managing the company's cash cycle. The relationship between the cash cycle and the level of net working capital. Methods for analyzing cash flow, the company's ability to generate operating cash flow based on analysis of the cash flow statement.
• Analysis of operating activities according to the indicators of the income statement: “gross profit – EBITDA – EBIT – net profit”; the relationship of indicators with the amount of working capital and cash flows of the organization.
• Management of the company's financial results based on CVP analysis. Practical financial solutions.
• The practical significance of analyzing the relationship “costs – revenue – profit”: from the allocation of fixed and variable costs to direct costing and break-even.
• Calculation of the main indicators of “CVP analysis”: marginal income, break-even point, margin of financial strength, operating leverage.
Management accounting: practice of application
• Concept, types and place in the economic system of the company.
• Objectives of management accounting.
• Basic components of a management accounting system.
• Interface of management accounting systems with the accounting system. Management accounting technology.
• Documentation in management accounting.
• Creation of an adequate reporting system.
• Creation of internal regulations governing management accounting.
• Control over management accounting.
• Ways to improve the efficiency of the management accounting system.
• Why is management accounting a CFO's problem? Automation.