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Date: Mon 10 Jun 2013

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A2UK: Understand & Analyse Your Company's Financial Results
United Kingdom


Intermediate Level  (2 days)

This course offers you the opportunity to look at your company’s most recent results announcement and annual report through the eyes of your target audiences. Our experienced tutor will take you through your numbers and help you complete our analysis workbook in a group of no more than 6 people.

Download course program for Understand & Analyse Your Company's Financial Results

Outcomes

The course will help you to:
• Understand your company’s financial statements
• Find the key numbers quickly and efficiently
• Analyse the financial statements to determine company performance
• Use Key Performance Indicators to tell your financial story
• Anticipate likely market issues and questions around financial results

What you will learn

The Big Picture
 • How the market uses results
 • Measuring financial performance and the link to shareholder value
 • Financial statements reminder
 • Which numbers really matter

The Balance Sheet
 • Assets, capital intensity and working capital management
 • Gearing/leverage and its effect on results
 • Forecasting issues

The Cash Flow Statement
 • Reading cash flow statements
 • Defining operating free cash flow
 • Forecasting issues

The Income Statement
 • Analysing the income statement and segmental information
 • Earnings quality and adjusting profits
 • Understanding the impact of operational gearing
 • Forecasting issues

Summary and conclusion
 • Financial performance - how the ratios fit together
 • Communications issues - effective Q&A
 • Where to go from here

How you will learn

You will bring your own company’s results announcement and annual report with you or that of a client. Over the course of the two days you will complete our company analysis workbook, which will help you to analyse your company and highlight the questions that your audiences are likely to ask.