Accounting Tools and Metrics for the CFO (AADP)

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Major Topics:

• Financial statements, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and Corporate governance
• How to evaluate and improve a company's financial performance
• Internal accounting applications for your company
• Cost-volume-profit analysis, operating leverage, and discounting analysis
• Capital budgeting
• Assets management, financing techniques, and portfolio theory
• Long-term debt and equity financing
• Decision making with forecasting
• The new world of accounting

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the objectives of financial reporting and the key elements contained within different financial statements.
• Recognize the purpose and content of the statement of cash flows.
• Identify key sections contained with the annual report.
• Recognize issues addressed by the Sarbanes-Oxley (sox) act and the groups impacted by it.
• Recognize key financial ratios and how they can be used.
• Calculate the value for different financial ratios.
• Recognize the relationship between margin and turnover.
• Compute ROI and recognize how it can be improved.
• Recognize the concept of Economic Value Added (EVA) and how it can be improved.
• Recognize major elements of budgeting process.
• Identify different attributes and uses of variance analysis as a control device.
• Recognize how accounting systems work, including activity-based costing, life-cycle costing and target costing.
• Recognize the value of a balanced scorecard approach.
• Recognize the value of cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis in solving business problems.
• Identify some applications of present (discounting) and future (compound) values.
• Recognize the uses of capital budgeting.
• Identify the different techniques used to evaluate business investments and their applications.
• Recognize key elements that affect working capital and cash management.
• Identify how different investment criteria affect managing assets, such as expected returns, risk and diversification.
• Recognize the Capital Asset Pricing Model(CAPM) and the Arbitrage Pricing Model (APM).
• Identify the process of investment banking.
• Recognize issues for venture capital financing.
• Recognize examples of types of long-term debt and their usefulness.
• Identify examples of equity securities.
• Recognize the components of a forecasts and what it predicts.
• Identify various forecasting methods.
• Identify components of an accounting information system.
• Recognize the purpose of extensible business reporting language (XBRL).
• Identify the impact of the emerging technologies on the accounting processes

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