Accounting & Financial Analysis
This programme helps leaders strengthen their understanding of corporate finance and accounting in a practical, business-focused way. Through real-world cases and hands-on analysis, participants gain the confidence to evaluate financial performance, understand risk, and support better strategic decisions across their organisations.
Course Schedule
A comprehensive 5-day deep dive into financial analysis, real-world case studies, and strategic decision making.
- Introduction and Welcome
- Creating financial value: Growth and Return
- Basic logic of the income statement and balance sheet
- Group work: Measuring financial performance Case: Youngs & Co
- How the GAAP accounting rules affect financial ratios
- Measuring operating assets Cases: Glencore, Arsenal football club
- Group project work
- Read & review Chapter 7 and 11 (optional: 12) - Supply Chain Finance
- Recap of Day 1
- Recognition of assets: Accounting for intangibles Cases: Aramco, Boeing, Peugeot
- Accounting for takeovers Cases: AOL Time Warner, Easyjet
- Group work: Financial performance of airline industry Cases: BA, infrastructure coy
- Recognition of liabilities Cases: EDF, pensions
- Off-balance sheet financing Cases: Enron, Carillion
- Group project work
- Read & review: Chapter 6, 8, 9 (optional: 14)
- Recap of Day 2
- Telling the economic story: Forensic financial analysis
- Financial modelling (Cases: Body Shop, L’Oreal, Natura)
- Group work: Bank financials (Case: Standard Chartered)
- Measuring income and growth (Cases: Unilever, P&G, Aramco, Danone)
- Analysis of free cash flow; Use and abuse of EBITDA
- Group project work
- Read & review: Chapter 13, 16, 18
- Recap of Day 3
- How financial assets and liabilities are measured (Cases: Standard Chartered, Silicon Valley Bank)
- Bank performance and regulation (Cases: Standard Chartered, peers)
- Group work: Finalise group presentations
- Group presentations
- Creative accounting and fraud (Cases: Wirecard, Enron, Olympus)
- Read & review: Chapter 10, 19
- Recap of Day 4
- Light-balance sheet strategies (Cases: Apple, Dell)
- Measuring impact and ESG
- Growth versus return (Cases: Amazon & IBM)
- Conclusion and review
- Programme feedback
- Programme close
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