ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS
- Four Types of Market Structures
- Perfect Competition
- Demand Analysis and Pricing Strategies
- Supply Analysis
- Optimal Price and Output
- Monopolistic Competition
- Demand Analysis and Pricing Strategies
- Supply Analysis
- Optimal Price and Output
- Oligopoly
- Demand Analysis and Pricing Strategies
- Supply Analysis
- Optimal Price and Output
- Monopoly
- Demand Analysis and Pricing Strategies
- Supply Analysis
- Optimal Price and Output
ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS (CONTINUED)
- Monetary Policy
- The Roles of Central Banks
- Monetary Policy Objectives
- Fiscal Policy
- The Roles of Fiscal Policy
- Fiscal Policy Tools
- The relationship between Monetary and Fiscal Policy
UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
- All transactions performed in an organization must and will run through to the Financial Statements. This is the place where C-Suite needs to have a clear understanding of what story each FS tells, what are its components, and how can they use FS to make enhanced decisions
UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
- Role of financial reporting and analysis
- Core financial statements and the importance of the annual report
- The significant role of notes and supplementary information
- Financial reporting mechanics
- Relationship, elements, and classification of financial statements
- Income statement
- Balance sheet
- Cash flow statement
- Statement of owners’ equity
COMPONENTS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS
- Key income statement components
- Gross profit vs. operating profit vs. net income
- Revenue recognition principles
- Expense recognition principles
- Key balance sheet components
- Current assets and current liabilities
- Non-current assets and non-current liabilities
- Equity
- Key statement of changes in owners’ equity components
- Key cash flow statement components
- Operating, investing, and financing activities
- Direct vs indirect method
- The cash rich standard
AN INSIDE LOOK AT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
- The financial analysis processes
- Strategic analysis
- Vertical analysis: balance sheet and income statement approaches
- Growth analysis
- Horizontal and trend analysis
- Financial analysis ratios
- Key Activity Ratios: Calculation, Interpretation, and Application
- Inventory turnover and Days of inventory on hand (DIO)
- Receivables turnover and Days of sales outstanding (DSO)
- Payables turnover and Days of payables outstanding (DPO)
- Working capital turnover, fixed asset turnover, and total asset turnover
- Key Liquidity Ratios: Calculation, Interpretation, and Application
- Current, quick, and cash ratios
- Defensive interval and cash conversion cycle
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
- Why perform asset management and activity ratios?
- Key Solvency Ratios: Calculation, Interpretation, and Application
- Debt-to-assets, debt-to-capital, and debt-to-equity ratios
- Times interest, financial leverage, and Debt-to-EBITDA ratios
- Key Profitability ratios: Calculation, Interpretation, and Application
- Return on sales: Gross profit margin, operating profit margin Pretax margin, net profit margin
- Return on Investment Return on assets, return on equity, operating ROA, return on common equity
- Integrated financial ratio analysis
- Key Valuation Ratios: Calculation, Interpretation, and Application
- Price-to-earnings and earnings-per-share ratios
- Price-to-cash flow and cash flow-per-share ratios
- Price-to-sales and sales-per-share ratios
- Price-to-book value and book value-per-share ratios
- Decomposing ROE, DuPont analysis
- Three-step model
- Five-step model
- Limitation of ratio analysis
ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, GOVERNANCE
- Environmental, social, and corporate governance is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of social goals that go beyond the role of a corporation to maximize profits on behalf of the corporation’s shareholders.
M&A | INVESTMENT | CAPITAL BUDGETING | PE | VC
- An important part of C-Suite decisions is the ability to understand, execute, and manage, the consolidation of companies or assets through several types of financial transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, tender offers, purchase of assets, and management acquisitions
