Are you looking to improve your skills to assess the financial strength of a company?  Are you a non-financial executive? We have the right program for you! The Finance for Non-finance Executives 3-day workshop is created for non-financial executives who want to have clear explanations, personal attention, and real-life examples on finance. It will be an exciting and fun way to help you be able to:

• Know how to read & understand financials very well: a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Financial Projections.
• Judge business plans, especially when a company is facing financial difficulties.
• Predict future cash flows and assessing a credit risk rating by hand.

This program is created for any non-financial executive who is striving to get a deeper understanding of the financials of a company. These onsite sessions will be held for up to 25 participants.

The first session of this 3-day workshop will be used to refresh knowledge, especially about cash flows. Thereafter, each morning and afternoon session will be spent on a case, applying a five-step learning process:

1. A classroom introduction to the case
2. Read and consider each case on your own
3. Share your ideas with your team (+/- 5 participants)
4. Discuss the case in class
5. Reflect on how your initial ideas changed

The goal is to be able to read & understand financials in a higher level. Therefore, you will benefit from the following subjects:

• Understanding the basics: balance sheet, income statement, cash flows
• Measuring the debt burden
• Judging liquidity
• Identifying warning signals in the cash flow statement
• Drafting an industry analysis
• Assessing management quality and reliability of financial information
• Preparing a financial projection to assess future cash flow quality
• The impact of the corporate strategy and business plans
• Assessing a risk rating by hand (=not by computer)

Erik de Jong has worked at ING Bank for 22 years in the area of international credit risk management as a full-time trainer, manager, and analyst. Since 2010, he has been a freelance trainer and has trained professionals worldwide.

• The toolbox
• Cash flow analysis
• Measuring the debt burden and liquidity
• Industry analysis and “Product Life Cycle ó Cash Flows”
• Financial projection “Back to the Future”
• Management’s Attitude & Reliability of financials
• Conclusions & Evaluation

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