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Module Widgets MBA "Finance and Budgeting"

10:00 - 11:30

Topic 1. Financial Statements as a Source of Information for Business Decision-Making

  • Financial Statements Types: Structure, Users, Relationship & Links between different Financial Statements.
  • Company Budget Structure and Budget Management.
  • What Is the Key Information in a Financial Statements?
  • Reading the Balance Sheet as the One of the Primary Financial Statements.
  • Profit and Loss Statement (P&L): What is the difference between EBITDA, EBIT, EBT?
  • Cash Flow Statements: Two Methods for Calculating Cash Flows.
 

11:30 - 11:40

Coffee Break

11:40 - 13:15

Topic 2. Financial Analysis: Modern Tools & Techniques

  • Liquidity and Solvency Analysis & Ratios (types of solvency; liquidity of assets, liquidity of balance sheet, business' liquidity; top causes of business insolvency; liquidity and solvency ratios).
  • Assets Analysis & Ratios (classification and structure of assets, fixed and current assets).
  • Capital Analysis & Ratios (capital structure; financial and operational cycle; raising capital).
  • Financial Stability Analysis: Identifying the Key Indicators of Financial Stability.
  • Profitability Analysis & Ratios (accounting and economic profit, profitability ratios ROA, ROE, ROI and others).
  • BCG (Boston Consulting Group) Matrix in Financial Analysis.
 

13:15 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30

Topic 3. Financial Planning and Budgeting in the Era of Turbulence: New Trends and Trends

  • The Role of Finance in the Business Model Optimization.
  • Incoming and Outgoing Financial Flows: approaches to the formation.
  • Sources of Financing Business: Advantages and Disadvantages. Sponsoring and Fundraising. What do Investors Want and What are They Afraid of? What and Whom are They Looking for?
  • Financial Planning: Theory and Practice.
  • Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB): Myths and Reality.
 

15:30 - 15:40

Coffee Break

15:40 - 16:20

Topic 4. Budgeting as a tool for managing the process of promoting innovative products to the market.

  • Financial Results of the Company & Competitiveness: Dependence.
  • Budgeting for the Process of Promoting Innovative Products to the Market.
  • Hierarchy Analysis Method (Saati Method) in Evaluating the Competitiveness of Innovative Products.
  • Management Decisions based on Evaluation Results.
 

16:20 - 17:15

Topic 5. How Does Financial Information Help Improve Decision-Making?

  • Psychological Traps in managerial Decision-Making.
  • How to Determine Business Success with a Financial Ratio? What are the Key Financial Risk Factors that a company could encounter?
  • Practical Application of Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis (CVP Analysis). Calculation of Break-even Point and Margin of Safety.
  • Business Valuation: Approaches and Methods in preparing to Buying and Selling Companies Negotiation