Accounting & Finance for Business Analysis

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Chapter 1

•Identify the non-financial manager’s concern with financial planning; and

•Recognize the responsibilities of financial managers; and

•Distinguish between different business entities.

 

Chapter 2

•Identify the importance of cost data; and

•Define different types of costs and their allocation.

 

Chapter 3

•Recognize financial components critical to decision analysis; and

•Identify the concept of contribution margin; and

•Recognize the contribution margin ratio.

 

Chapter 4

•Recognize the relationships between costs, volume, and profit; and

•Identify the computation used for break-even sales; and

•Identify key financial ratio concepts.

 

Chapter 5

•Identify relevant costs in the manufacturing process; and

•Recognize components for making financial decisions; and

•Identify costs used in future business directions.

 

Chapter 6

•Identify the importance and value of sales forecasts; and

•Recognize how sales forecasts and budgets affect other operational budgets.

 

Chapter 7

•Identify variance analysis and its usefulness to financial analysis; and

•Recognize when variance analysis should be applied; and

•Identify cost variances.

 

Chapter 8

•Identify components of working capital; and

•Recognize methods to finance an asset; and

•Identify ways to improve cash management; and

•Recognize ways to accelerate cash receipts or delay cash payments.

 

Chapter 9

•Recognize ways to improve the rate of return with accounts receivable and credit; and

•Identify and analyze accounts receivable values.

 

 

Chapter 10

•Recognize inventory management considerations; and

•Identify ways to optimize the economic order quantity.

 

Chapter 11

•Recognize future values and different loan types; and

•Recognize the concept of the time value of money; and

•Identify capital rationing decisions.

 

Chapter 12

•Recognize each of the basic capital investment analysis techniques; and

•Recognize the various types of depreciation methods; and

•Compute the ROI on an investment.

 

Chapter 13

•Recognize effects on the rate of return on investments (ROI); and

•Identify the basic components of the Du Pont formula used to improve profit.

 

Chapter 14

•Recognize the types of responsibility centers; and

•Recognize the value of transfer pricing.

 

Chapter 15

•Identify sources of short-term financing; and

•Recognize the value and process of issuing commercial paper and other financing activities.

 

Chapter 16

•Identify intermediate-term bank loans; and

•Recognize the advantages of revolving credit.

 

Chapter 17

•Identify the process of investment banking; and

•Recognize issues for venture capital financing; and

•Recognize examples of types of long-term debt and their usefulness; and

•Identify examples of equity securities.

 

Chapter 18

•Recognize the different financial statements and their uses; and

•Identify the major components of the balance sheet.

 

Chapter 19

•Recognize the double-entry system and the accounting equation; and

•Recognize how to apply transaction analysis to simple business transactions in terms of the accounting model: Assets = Liabilities + Equity; and

•Identify the entries entered into the journal; and

•Recognize how certain transactions affect the balance sheet.

 

Chapter 20

•Identify different financial ratios and how they are used.