Professional Skills For Finance And Accounting
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INTRODUCTION
Learn the basics of finance and accounting. Build a foundation of core business skills in finance and accounting
This course relies on a variety of individual and team exercises supported with role plays as well as individual and group presentations and Excel workshops.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Explain the characteristics of ‘delegation’ and apply various personal organization management techniques
- Evaluate skills and attitudes of finance staff and identify their communication personality styles
- Practice some of the essential Excel skills to increase efficiency and productivity
- Apply finance policies and procedures to add value and communicate effectively with other department
- Discounting and compounding arbitrary cash flow streams in order to value different claims and make better financial decisions.
- Difference between NPV and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Classification of cash flows into operating, investing, and financing activities
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COURSE AUDIENCE
This course is made for
- Financial managers
- Financial controllers
- Finance department heads
- Chief financial officers
- Accounting managers
- Senior finance officers
- Accountants
- Finance staff
- Analysts
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COURSE OUTLINE
Day One
- Understanding the accounting cycle
- The income statement
- The balance sheet
- Changes in owners’ equity statements
- Cash flow statements
- The relationship of financial statements
- Functions of management
Day Two
- The new skills set
- Delegation and priorities
- Delegation characteristics
- Rules of delegation
- Handling meetings effectively
- Maintaining clean desk policy
Day Three
- Identifying recruitment criteria
- Developing interviewing skills
- Interpersonal communication
- Fundamentals of communication skills
- Personality communication styles
- The attitude and skills matrix
Day Four
- Consolidating multiple sets of data
- Applying control at the data entry through data validation
- Teamwork skills in finance and accounting
- Assessing the need for team building program
- Finance as a project
- Organizing by function
- Organizing by purpose
- Staff duties and responsibilities
- The need for review and authorization procedures
Day Five
- Purposes of the policies and procedures manual
- Documenting and communicating financial policies
- Staff involvement and responsibilities
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