# Certificate in Financial Analysis

Course Content

• Corporate reporting and audit
• Corporate reporting 
• Information risk and audit
• International accounting standards
• Roles of accounting standards
• Impact of compliance and differing standards
• Creative accounting
• Understanding creative accounting
• Scope and areas of creative accounting

• Profitability analysis
• Returns on investment – the indicators 
  
• Financial stability
• Business sustainability 
• Margin analysis – gross and net margins
• Working capital and liquidity
• Solvency and insolvency risk
• quality and management
  

• Construction of financial forecasts
• Developing financial forecast for financial decisions
• Bases of financial forecasting and key issues
• Tools and techniques for assessing forecasts
• Capital expenditure analysis
• Understanding return on investments
• Discounted cash flow methodology and its application 
• Assessment of financial forecasts
• Testing financial forecasts
  

• Management assessment
• Management impact on business results
• KPI of business management and effectiveness
• Cash flow analysis
• Cash flow generation and utilization
• Focus of cash flow analysis

Course Description

This course is designed for financial services industry executives in credit, lending and investment review roles to equip them with essential skills to further enhance their financial analytical skills to advance their careers.  In the course of fulfilling their responsibilities and roles, they make read, understand and analyze financial reports and conduct financial analysis of financial statement and business forecasts before they can make any recommendations.