Duration: 1 dayInstructor: Fatih KURAN

Objective

Having comprehensive financial knowledge not only assists you in making more accurate and informed decisions but also enables you to clearly foresee the impact of your individual efforts on the company's financial performance. If your role occasionally requires generating financial solutions when offering various alternatives to your customers, financial literacy becomes an indispensable skill for accelerating your career, closely monitoring company performance, and better assessing your own performance, regardless of your department.

Through this program, you will acquire practical calculation methods to simplify your daily tasks and establish a robust foundation by better interpreting financial statements, thereby strengthening your decision-making processes.

Who Should Attend:

This training is specifically designed for professionals in managerial positions who wish to acquire skills in accurately interpreting financial statements and conducting numerical evaluations. It aims to clearly convey fundamental financial concepts and their practical application within business processes.

Who Should Attend:

·      All managers and specialists who are not directly responsible for financial management but need to understand and utilize financial information in their decision-making.

·      Anyone who seeks to make more accurate inferences when evaluating data related to the company's financial performance and aims to play an active role within the organization.

Content:

1.  Financial Statements

a.    Accounting and Financial Reporting Concepts (Example: Walmart)

b.   Purposes of Financial Statements

c.    Introduction to Financial Statements

·      Balance Sheet

·      Income Statement

·      Cash Flow Statement

d.   Concepts of Gross Profit, Operating Profit, and Net Profit

e.   Relationships Among Financial Statements

f.     Differences Between Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement

g.    Importance of Cash Flow: Is Cash King?

h.   What is EBITDA and How is it Calculated?

i.     Comparison of EBITDA and Cash Flow

j.     Factors Affecting Cash Flow

k.    Working Capital Cycle, Requirement, and Management

2.  Financial Analysis Methods

a.    Vertical and Horizontal Ratio Analysis

b.   Analysis of Financial Statements (Liquidity, Financial Structure, Turnover Rates, Profitability)

c.    Break-Even Point Analysis

d.   Operating Leverage

e.   Financial Leverage

f.     Tax Shield Effect of Debt

g.    ROE (Return on Equity) and ROA (Return on Assets)

h.   DuPont Analysis

3.  Interest Calculations/Time Value of Money

a.    Concepts of Interest and Interest Rates

b.   Concept of Future Value

c.    Concept of Present Value

d.   Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

4.  Evaluation of Investment Projects

a.    What is a Cash Flow Waterfall?

b.   Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR)

c.    Concept and Calculation of Internal Rate of Return

d.   Concept and Calculation of Net Present Value (NPV)

e.   Payback Period