Introduction
The Finance and Accounting MBA is an intensive 10-day training course designed to sharpen your management skills and focusing on current best practices in finance and accounting. Finance is a core process/function in business that requires executive attention. Accounting is the language of business; understanding and applying this language to your business in general remains the single most valuable competence of management. Prepare yourself by enhancing your personal competence in identifying best practices in finance and in accounting. In this Britannia training course you will learn how to:
- Manage and motivate people more effectively
- Create and harness the power of high performance teams
- Understand and effectively utilize strategic planning techniques
- Use the Baldrige performance criteria as a standard of excellence and benchmark for your organisation
- Focus on real companies and their finance function and accounting processes to show participants which elements have achieved best practices status
- Remove much of the mystique associated with the management of finance and accounting
- Focus on challenging yourself to become the strategic financial leaders of the organisation
- Prepare yourself for future responsibilities by examining best practices in these important functions/processes
Who Should Attend?
Professionals interested in furthering their management as well as finance and accounting skills would benefit from this Britannia training course. It will also be beneficial to:
- Financial and non-financial professionals who wish to test their high performance and high potential knowledge, skills and attitudes with other similar individuals
- Anyone who wishes to reinforce their knowledge of financial functions/processes and who requires a more integrative financial view
Programme Objectives
- Consider methods for improving management performance
- Gain insights into the successful implementation of teams
- Study the techniques for strategic planning
- Develop negotiation skills
- Analyse the Baldrige Award criteria for excellence
- Examine the application of management best practices
- Identify best practices for the roles of CFO, controller, treasurer, and accountants in the content of, and relationships between, financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows)
- Discuss best practices in the use of financial statements to evaluate the financial / strategic performance of an organization
- Utilise best practices in discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques and their application to financial decision-making
- Identify best practices in corporate performance management using key success factors, weak financial signals, and strong financial signals in various industry sectors
- Illustrate how best practices in EVA® (Economic Value Added), SVA (Shareholder Value Added), and RI (Residual Income) can be used to value competing strategies
- Define best practices in the value creation/destruction process in mergers and acquisitions from the market perspective and signals to management from the market
- Clarify best practices in the roles of directors, auditors, and others in their respective roles in corporate governance
- Identify best practices in the various sources of financial and business data that provide insights into business and financial strategies
- Identify best practices in the details of financial control, risk management, and financial reporting from the perspectives of the internationally recognized professional associations
- Enhance personal networks of similarly minded high potential managers
Training Methodology
Participants will learn by active participation during the The 10-day Finance and Accounting MBA training course, through the use of training course materials, hands on exercises, interactive exchanges, videos and discussions on “real life” issues.
Programme Summary
- Encourage best and brightest professionals to stretch themselves by benchmarking best practices in finance and accounting
- Provide opportunities for testing key assumptions of managing finance and control
- Enhance organizational networks by developing and using best practices
- Build practical problem solving skills for immediate use to identify and implement best practices in finance and accounting
- Improve recognition and implementation of best practice financial management principles