The seminar is split into two modules:

MODULE I - Sustainable Finance

MODULE II - Business Financial, Budgeting &
Accounting Skills

Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-week training course.

Module I: Sustainable Finance

DAY 1: 

Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance

• Principles and foundation of sustainable finance
• Environmental issues and concerns
• Social issues and concerns
• Governance issues and concerns
• Ethical issues and concerns
• Defining organisational scope for sustainable finance

DAY 2: 

Sustainable Strategic Management

• Concepts of stakeholder value
• The purpose of competitive companies
• Principles and practice in corporate governance
• Redefining competitive business strategy
• Understanding business models and their disruption
• Identifying key success factors
• Using strategy maps to identify key performance indicators

DAY 3: 

Accounting and Reporting Sustainable Finance

• The traditional financial analysis toolkit
• Conventional measures of stakeholder value
• Selecting the right key performance measures
• Designing internal reports on sustainable finance
• Principles of Integrated Reporting (IR)

DAY 4: 

Business Investment and Sustainable Finance

• The challenges of sustainable investment
• Scenarios for business model reinvention
• Key decision factors for sustainable financial investment
• Traditional tools of investment appraisal
• Factoring in the environmental and social dimension
• Limitations of conventional investment appraisal methods 

DAY 5: 

Risk and Scope of Sustainable Finance

• Traditional approaches to understanding business risk
• Risk aspects from a sustainable finance perspective
• Sustainable finance developments in banking
• Sustainable finance developments in financial investments
• Financial modelling of risk under sustainable finance conditions
• The way forward in sustainable finance
  
  

Module II: Business Financial, Budgeting & Accounting Skills

DAY 6

Management and Financial Accounting: Key Concepts and Terminologies

• Identify the Major Differences and Similarities between Financial and Managerial Accounting
• Understand the Role of Management Accountants in an Organization
• Linking Strategy to Planning and Costing
• The Key Role of Budgeting and Cost Control in Contemporary Organizations
• Towards a Cross-Functional Process-View of the Organization
• Understand Your Processes: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Aspects
• Understanding The Financial Statements

DAY 7

Cost Analysis

• What is Costing?
• Cost Concepts and Terminology
• Different Costs for Different Purposes
• Fixed vs. Variable Costs: The Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Model
• Contribution Margin Analysis
• Manufacturing vs. Non-manufacturing Costs
• Period vs. Product costs: Inventory Evaluation and Control

DAY 8

Traditional vs. Advanced Techniques in Cost-control

• Under-costing and Over-costing: The Consequences for Profitability
• How to refine a Costing System?
• Indirect vs. Direct Costs
• Traditional Cost Allocations Systems vs. Activity-Based Costing
• Cost Hierarchy & Cost Drivers
• Linking Resources, Activities and Management
• Introducing Activity-Based Budgeting and Management
• Video, Case Study and Examples

DAY 9

Budgeting: Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis

• The Role of Budgeting
• Define the Master Budget and Explain Its Major Benefits to An Organization
• Describe the Difference between a Static Budget and a Flexible Budget
• Compute Flexible-budget Variances and Sales-volume Variances
• Discuss The Behavioral Implication of Budgeting
• The Budgeting Process in Your Organization: How to improve it?
• Which tools shall we use to complement Budgeting and Costing?

DAY 10

Measuring Corporate Performance: The Balanced Scorecards and Six-Sigma

• Broadening Performance Measurement Systems
• The Key Role of Customer Satisfaction and Business Process Re-engineering
• Beyond Budgeting: Integrating Financial and Non-financial Issues
• Introducing The Balanced Scorecard
• The Key Perspectives
• Introducing The Strategy Maps
• Introducing Six-Sigma

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