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Date

17 July 2023

City

Kuala Lumpur

Venue

Malaysia

Expired

Overview

 

“Often the case, Top Management come from different backgrounds, bringing with them lots of expertise (Marketing, Finance, Operations, Strategy) and they often fail to understand the impact of their decision on the financial outcome of the overall business.” 

 

Add value to your organization by leveraging financial management concepts and techniques to make critical strategic and economic decisions with this Masterclass! Just ask the impressive list of companies that have already attended, including Intel, Hitachi, Petronas, Nissan, Changi Airport, Chevron Phillips, and many more!

 

 

Why you should attend

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.

 

 

By the end of this course, you will learn to:

  • Develop a clear view of how your operational decisions affect financial outcomes in your business
  • Make better use of financial information to assist you in making better quality management decisions
  • Have better understanding of the factors that drive profitability and lead to financial success
  • Understand the critical role of cash flow and know how to manage and forecast cash flow
  • Understand what financial value is, how to create it and how to measure it
  • Understanding the difference between value and profit in order to create economic value in your role
  • Maximising capital and managing the balance between financial efficiency and stakeholder expectations

 

This is an opportunity you won't want to miss - enhance your financial knowledge and make better strategic financial decisions for your company's growth! Sign up for Dr. James Hay's Strategic Finance for Decision Makers Masterclass today!

 

 

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COURSE FACILITATOR

Dr James Hay

PhD, BLitt (Hons)(Melbourne), MBA (Cornell), BSc (Monash)

Achievements

James Hay is a highly experienced and renowned finance trainer with over thirty years of experience. He has worked in risk management, corporate finance, and capital budgeting for some of Australia's largest companies.

 

James has an impressive track record of working with top-tier clients such as Westpac, Woodside, Shell, ExxonMobil, ANZ, General Motors, CSL, Petronas, Petroleum Brunei, and OQ. He has a strong educational background, holding certificates from The University of Melbourne, Cornell University and Monash University. 

 

He is a sought-after trainer who can provide valuable financial education and investment appraisal services to corporate and institutional clients. His expertise and experience make him the ideal trainer for any business manager looking to enhance their financial knowledge and decision-making abilities.

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Agenda

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

Session 1: The Role of Finance in the Organisation

  • The Corporate Value Chain 
  • Financial management responsibilities 
  • Accounting, Finance, and the Corporate Treasury 
  • Accounting statement refresher 
  • Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement

Session 2: Financial Ratios and Value Creation Strategies

  • Invested capital and Net Operating Income After tax (NOPAT) 
  • Dupont Analysis 
  • Return on Equity vs Return on Invested Capital – how debt is used to “gear up” returns 
  • Profit Margin versus Asset Turnover strategies 
  • Operational strategy versus financial strategies

Session 3: The Cost of Capital (WACC)

  • Risk, return, and value
  • Credit ratings and the cost of debt 
  • Volatility, Beta and estimating the cost of equity 
  • Capital Asset Pricing Model
  • The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)

Session 4: Discounted Cash Flow and Investment Decision Making

  • Net Present Value (NPV) 
  • Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 
  • Identifying incremental cash flows 
  • Using Net Present Value (NPV) to evaluate project alternatives 
  • Developing a business case for investment projects

Session 5: Creating and Measuring Economic Value

  • How finance provides a method of measuring economic gain or loss 
  • Accounting Values, Market Values and Economic Value 
  • Why is value different than profit? 
  • How you can create economic value 
  • Measuring value created through Economic Value Added (EVA) 
  • The relationship between EVA and Return on Invested Capital

Session 6: Free Cash Flow and Business Valuation

  • Price verses Value 
  • Cash versus Profit How you can be “profitable” yet go out of business
  • Estimating free cash flow 
  • Terminal Values and growth assumptions. What is a sustainable growth rate? 
  • Using free cash flow to value a business

Session 7: Managing Working Capital

  • Working capital measures and metrics 
  • Estimating receivables days, payables days and inventory days 
  • The Operating cycle and the cash cycle 
  • The trade-offs between time, and prices paid and received
  • How working capital may be a source as well as a use of capital

Session 8: Debt and Risk Management Strategies

  • Determining optimal debt levels 
  • Identifying financial exposures 
  • Foreign exchange, interest rate, and commodity price exposure 
  • Exposure management tools: Forwards, futures, options, “exotic” tools 
  • Exposure management (hedging) versus speculation 
  • Should all exposures be managed?

TESTIMONIALS

Check out the testimonials from our events

Sharifah Noralina bt Syed Yassin

HR Director
Dutch Lady Milk Industries Berhad

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator was engaging and able to translate finance into very business-centric focus. He was the main strength of the event.” 

Azmi Abu Samah

General Manager (Operations)
Sime Darby Engineering Sdn Bhd

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“An excellent presenter & technical knowledge. Course content was very useful. Excellent organizers!!!”

Christine Lee

Managing Director
Medi-Life (M) Sdn Bhd

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator did a great job presenting a difficult topic. Topic and trainer were the main strengths. Really well done!!! One of best trainings I have ever attended.” 

Tan Sri Muhammad Ismail

Chief Executive Officer
Weststar Aviation Services

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator is an excellent trainer. He knows his subject intimately and is able to present it in a simple way & I’m very impressed with him!”

Mohamed Iqbal

Chief Operating Officer
Pharmaniaga Berhad

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator is a very knowledgeable speaker as he was able to clearly put his message across. The best part is, he covers not just for financial guys, but also ordinary guys. So if it is him, I would definitely recommend to anyone.”

Rosmawati Zainuddin

Senior General Manager, Treasury Division
PERKESO

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“For myself having a strong finance background I find the course to be a good refresher. I find this course useful in terms of how I can explain complicated finance term to my staff who don’t have finance background and personally that’s my take-away. This can definitely help me in my career.” 

Lum Joy Deng

Director of GAM1 Business Planning
CIMB Investment Bank

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“I find the course to be a good refresher. The facilitator provide me a good perspective when we look into numbers and how can they can be used to interpret our business. I can definitely use this in my career seeing that I’m working in a banking institution. The facilitator’s delivery was extremely good and detailed."

Mohd Fariz Mohd Zain

General Manager
UMW Advantech

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The training was well presented and concepts were well understood. I feel this event would be an excellent choice for non-finance practitioners who need to employ decision-making with a financial basis. I found the facilitator and the methodology of the training to be the main strengths of the event!” 

Wan Mohd Fadzlullah

Executive Vice President
Takaful Ikhlas

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“This was very detailed course which enriched us with a lot of proven concepts. I loved the facilitator, he is very experienced in his field and all his examples could be related to the real life situations. Very good organization of the training thanks to Kexxel.” 

Khaidhir Elias

Vice President of Marketing
Telekom Malaysia

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“..Very good program, very nice, very informative speaker and presenter, very easy to understand the module presented for both beginners and advanced users. In terms of relevance to our business, yes for those who have great exposure to finance, this is very good program for them. I would like to recommend to every executive regardless they are in product development or engineers because one way or another they actually have to understand finance figures…Overall, very satisfying experience and exposure I got by attending this program. We actually see that it is very useful and we would recommend it to other staff within our organization..” 

Azmi Bin Abu Samah

Sr General Manager
Sime Darby Engineering Sdn Bhd

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“..I have been in this industry for 20 years. I think this event is good exposure for non-financial people. The facilitator was quite comprehensive, not that difficult to understand. I like the content, it refreshed my memories. I would definitely recommend it to others..” 

Mohd Khiri Abd Wahab

Vice President
Sime Darby Plantation Sdn Bhd (Malaysia)

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“Clear and informative presentation. The strength of the event was the reputation of the facilitator.” 

Graeme Read

EVP Chief Strategy Officer (Asia Pacific)
McCann Health

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator gave very clear, good mix of examples, humor, as well as stories to bring ideas and principles to life. It has a good pace. The highlight of this event is the broad overview of financial principles and terminology, along with good handout materials.” 

Eileen Tan Seok Ling

Director
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singapore)

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator makes complicated concepts practical and simple to understand.”

Ng Cher Keng

Director
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator was able to put things across in a way that helped a non-finance person grasp the key essence of the subject.”

Alexander

CFO
Sarawak Energy (Malaysia)

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator made a complex financial subject simple and interesting. Efficient organizer.” 

Shafik Azlee Mashar

Head Internal Audit
Maxis Broadband

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“For me I learnt quite a number of things from this training, most of the terms used are familiar to me but hearing the facilitator explain the terms in a layman’s language, and has given me a better understanding. As I don’t have a finance background, this course helped me understand some of the terms that I use every day in my job. If your job requires you to look at figures and the health of the company then you should attend this course. I found the training good and the material provided very useful to me.”

Ahmad Fuad Bin Md Kasim

General Manager
Tenaga Nasional Berhad

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator was very clear and give out good example for easier understanding. He was able to translate finance into business centric focus. His knowledge in finance is the main strength of this event!” 

Raja Ahmad Shazli

Head Office of Strategic Initiatives
Mesiniaga

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator did a fantastic job of taking the complexities of understanding finance and made it simple & easily understood. Hence why I believe that the facilitator and the topic presented were the main strengths of the event.” 

Ahmad Nasri bin Mohamed

Vice President
Telekom Malaysia

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator was able to explain strategic finance in a very practical manner. He strives to find simplicity in giving us a fundamental understanding of the financial principles. He also showed us how to use the knowledge we have gained into practical situations. I think this is a great course and the trainer is fantastic.” 

Mohamed Azukarais Mohd Di

Head of Strategic Planning
Axiata Business Services

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“I came to this event to gain more knowledge. The training was a refresher course for myself. The knowledge I gained from this training can be applied in my career. I would encourage my colleagues to join this event, so they can gain more knowledge when it comes to making financial decisions. The facilitator is an amazing trainer."

Michael Chung Wing Kay

CCO
CCM Chemicals

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“Complexity made simple! It was easy to understand the financial concepts due to the practical articulation by the facilitator. I loved the content of the course as it is relevant to my work.”

Alexander

CFO
Sarawak Energy

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator made a complex financial subject simple and interesting.” 

Sharifah Noralina bt Syed Yassin

HR Director
Dutch Lady Milk Industries

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The facilitator was engaging and able to translate finance into very business-centric focus. He was the main strength of the event.” 

Khairil Azman Ismail

Chief Operating Officer
NUR Power

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“The training is a good refresher for finance professionals but also great for people from a technical background. Kexxel Group did a great job with the event set-up.”

Magdy Tadrous

General Manager
Petrochem Performance Chemicals Ltd (UAE)

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“Excellent flow of information! Kexxel was excellent and the exercises were the strength of the event.”

Khaidhir Elias

Vice President, Marketing
Telekom Malaysia

Strategic Finance for Decision Makers

“..Very good program, very nice, very informative speaker and presenter, very easy to under[1]stand the module presented for both beginners and advanced users. In terms of relevance to our business, yes for those who have great exposure to finance, this is very good program for them. I would like to recommend to every executive regardless they are in product develop[1]ment or engineers because one way or another they actually have to understand finance figures…Overall, very satisfying experience and exposure I got by attending this program. We actually see that it is very useful and we would recommend it to other staff within our organization..” 

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