Dates
August 29. - September 1. 2011 (4 days) – 2nd edition
How to manage the financial levers of success
Internationally acting companies put more and more managers in charge of operations abroad. These managers become responsible for financial results and thus need the respective know-how.
After many years of successful inhouse-trainings for such persons and provding them with the appropriate knowledge, CZSG Controller Zentrum St. Gallen now offers this seminar publicly.
Learning target of the seminary
- You know the purposes and the basics of the different accounting instruments.
- You know the determining factors of management accounting as well as of financial accounting systems.
- You learn to analyze balance sheets and income statements and can compute and interpret the most important financial key ratios.
- You know the levers of financial success and can link the consequences of objectives and actions in their area of responsibility to these levers (in order to improve the results).
- You understand the most important design issues of controlling-systems.
Contents
- Assuring the financial survival of the company
- Basics of financial accounting (technique and valuation rules)
- Flow of funds and cash flow-concepts, operating and free cash flow
- Analysis of balance sheets and income statements
- Capital budgeting and net present value
- Accounting for management
- Comparison of targets to actuals and forecasts
- Transfer prices, financial performance and optimizing the corporate results.
- Drivers to increase the Economic Value Added EVA
- Organizing controlling and controllership abroad, the role of the controller.
Participants
Managers responsible for cost or revenue, headcounts and projects but until now no or little accounting knowledge. They need to consolidate their economic know-how and want to understand the levers of financial success.
This seminar meets the needs of (non-financial) managers in international companies for sales, logistics, production, research and development.
Methodology
- Teaching is a mix of lecture and discussions,
- As far as possible, differences in the use of accounting systems and the presentation of results between the represented organizations are worked out,
- An integrated planning- and control-model is developed for an instance-company,
- Investments and strategies are quantified,
- The whole procedure from the annual planning to the responsibility oriented reporting is elaborated.
Organisation
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CZSG Controller Zentrum St. Gallen 20 years of international experience with (inhouse-) training and development of planning and control systems. |
Location and dates
Zurich, Switzerland
February 14. - 17. 2011 (4 days) – 1st edition
August 29. - September 1. 2011 (4 days) – 2nd edition
Price
CHF 4’400.- including lunch, refreshments, training documentation, controller-dictionary and MS-Excel simulation models
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