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4 Part Strategic Finance for Decision Makers:
Understanding Finance to Make Critical Strategic & Economic Decisions with
Australia's Leading Expert in Finance Education
Lindsay Dewberry
Clientele includes Mercedes Benz, National Australia Bank, Disney Australia
20 Years of Experience in Programme Facilitation
With over 30 years of extensive business, finance and accounting experience under his belt, Lindsay has mastered the ability to take complex matter and impart it with ease, enthusiasm and positivity. His cross-industry experience includes the financial services, hospitality, federal and state governments, not-for-profit and manufacturing sectors, with a significant client base across both large and small organisations.
Additionally, Lindsay is a creator and presenter of financial management webinars for the Australian Institute of Company Directors directed towards directors of NFP’s. His major focus over the last 5 years has been the development and facilitation of accounting and financial services related training.
“Lindsay was a fantastic facilitator. He was extremely knowledgeable and engaging plus he knew his subject matter extensively. Great course!”
Senior Manager, Victorian Department of Health & Human Services
“…It was a pleasant surprise and moved my initial negative expectations of a potential mandatory and boring course to one of relevance and value to my business success…”
Managing Director, Money Depot
If you’re an experienced manager who wants to know how to use financial concepts and techniques to make better management decisions, then this course is for you. Regardless of the functional area you work in, this seminar will help you be more confident about your ability to create value for your organisation.
You will be able understand the most important concepts in financial management and you will learn how senior executives make use of them to make critical strategic and economic decisions. You will get practical experience using your new skills by applying them to real world examples. This seminar will assist you to become recognised as a knowledgeable and skillful strategic thinker in your organisation and you will be able to engage with other senior executives in a more confident and meaningful way.
SESSION 1 - The Cost of Capital (WACC)
Although a relatively simple concept, the cost of capital is the most powerful idea in modern financial management. Over the past 20 years it has become a crucial concept in financial decision making. Understanding the cost of capital enables you to deal with complex financial decisions with confidence.
Topics in this session:
Practical Exercise: Estimating cost of capital at Walmart
SESSION 2 - Discounted Cash Flow
Strategic management decisions are those that have tremendous effect over a period of time. The ability to analyse the effect time has on the value of the decision is the essence of discounted cash flow. It is a major concept in project decisions, investment decisions and acquisition decisions
Practical Exercise: Analysing and evaluating a strategic project proposal
SESSION 3 - Creating Economic Value
The method of measuring organisational success is changing from profit-based methods to value-based methods. These days, the economic objective of businesses is to create value rather than create profits. To be a successful manager, you need to understand the difference between value and profit and how you can create economic value in your role.
Practical exercise: Estimating value created at WalMart
SESSION 4 - Free Cash Flow
Techniques based on free cash flow have become the predominant way of determining the value of any business. When considering an acquisition or takeover, free cash flow is used to establish the right price to pay to acquire the target business. Free cash flow also allows managers to understand whether a business is growing in a way that is balanced and sustainable. As such, understanding free cash flow is essential for senior managers.
Practical exercise: What would you pay to acquire WalMart?
SESSION 5 - Managing Working Capital
Working capital is often viewed as a negative to the business and as such, the aim is to minimise it. However, the working capital cycle is how the business generates cash and is the first step towards profitability. We will look at why and how working capital needs to be optimised rather than minimised, and managing the balance between financial efficiency and stakeholder expectations.
Practical exercise: Learning from working capital management at WalMart
SESSION 6 - Managing Debt
Managing debt is one of the principle preoccupations of executive management. It is essentially about balancing the benefits of financial efficiency against the risks of financial failure. The recent global financial crisis reinforces how important it is that debt is managed appropriately.
Practical exercise: Analysis and assessment of debt at WalMart
SESSION 7 - Managing the Financial Future
In financial management, as with everything else in life, there is no way of predicting the future with certainty. The idea that it may be possible to forecast whether a business will experience financial distress in the future is an attractive proposition. In this session we will be learning about and using one of the most widely known bankruptcy prediction tool which claims to have 95% accuracy.
Practical exercise: The financial strength of Walmart
SESSION 8: Managing the Connection between Finance and Strategy
Finance and strategy are connected in many ways. Finance is a tool that enables strategic objectives to be achieved. It also provides a method of assessing the economic gain or loss that is a result of strategic decisions. In this session, we will examine the four main generic strategies and learn about the financial characteristics necessary to make them succeed.
Practical exercise: Examining how strategic decisions at WalMart, Coca Cola, Louis Vuitton, Pfizer and Tesco have created distinctive financial characteristics in those organisations.
This seminar is specifically designed for managers who may or may not have an accounting or finance background who see their future management role as requiring greater understanding of financial concepts to assist them in making sound management decisions. It will assist managers from all functional backgrounds including:
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