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Advanced Financial Statements Analysis is an interactive five-day professional training course designed for finance managers and other professionals seeking to strengthen their ability to evaluate financial position, performance, risk, investment opportunities, and business value. Held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the course is particularly relevant to finance, accounting, costing, budgeting, planning, and project management professionals, as well as CFOs, controllers, treasurers, and managers who contribute to financial decision-making. It is intended for participants who want to refresh, update, or expand their understanding of financial information and apply it more effectively in organizational settings.The program introduces the structure and content of annual reports and accounts, the role of financial information users, and the three principal financial statements: income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Participants examine corporate governance, sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility reporting, creative accounting, financial scandals, and agency problems. The course develops practical skills in ratio analysis, profitability, cost-volume-profit analysis, liquidity, short- and long-term solvency, financial structure, working capital, cash flow, segmental analysis, value-added analysis, and the assessment of accounting policies. Excel-based trend analysis, common-size analysis, horizontal and vertical analysis, the DuPont system, statistical tools, graphical representations, and forecasting techniques are used to improve comparability and interpretation.
A substantial component focuses on financing decisions, capital investment, and valuation. Topics include asset valuation methods, cost of equity, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, cost of debt, weighted average cost of capital, capital structure, future and present values, discounted cash flow, net present value, internal and modified internal rates of return, and equivalent annual cost. Participants also explore business valuation, corporate failure prediction, financial distress, expected values, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, sensitivity analysis, simulation, scenario analysis, and break-even analysis.
The risk management content covers systematic, unsystematic, business, and financial risk, together with interest-rate and foreign-currency exposure. Insurance, hedging, and derivatives are considered as methods for mitigating risk. Learning is delivered through formal presentations, practical illustrations, worked examples, team-based exercises, case studies, group discussion, and instructor guidance grounded in real-world financial experience. Mathematical concepts are presented visually and accessibly, supporting an engaging and practical learning experience. Successful participants receive an Oxford Management Centre certificate, with eligible continuing professional education recognition where applicable.
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