Career Gates

Objective
This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts and fundamentals of business finance to the participants. The quality and reliability of finance information will be examined. The analysis and interpretation of financial statements will be discussed for purpose of guiding decisions.

Content Accounting as a basis for business decisions.
 Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
 International Accounting requirements in the preparation and presentation of financial information
 Format & classification of general-purpose financial statements:
    o The Balance Sheet
    o The Income statement
    o Statements of changes in stockholders Equity
    o Cash flow statement
    o Notes accompanying financial statements
    o Analysis &Interpretation of financial Statements
 Preparing and analyzing Financial Ratios.
 Sources of finance

Who Should Attend
This course targets middle managers that are at a crossroads in their careers and need to succeed in increasing their responsibilities. It gives a great value added to all attendees, providing a foundation for continuing career development. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in preparing and using financial information.

Duration : 20 Hours

Objective
This course is designed to enhance the participants understanding of the concepts of capital structure cost of capital and time value of money. Participants will become familiar with risk analysis, capital budgeting and maximization of the company value and of its stock.

Content
 The concept of time value of money
 Business risk & operating leverage
 Finance Risk & Leverage
 Cash flow Statements and cash budgets
     o Operating Cash flows
     o Investments Cash Flows
     o Financing Cash Flows
     o Free Cash flow
 Maximization of the value of the company and of its stock
 Preparing and analyzing Financial Ratios.
 Sources of finance

Who Should Attend
This course targets top-level managers, executives and directors who want to improve and develop their skills and get acquainted with the latest development in their field today. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in understanding corporate finance fundamentals.

Duration : 20 Hours

Objective
This course aims to introduce the participants to the analysis of financial ratios, performance of cross sectional and time series analysis. Participants will be able to identify the economic / industry aspects that affect the performance of the firm under analysis.

Content
 Economic analysis
 Break-even analysis and pay back period
 Time value of money (VPV-NFV-IRR-ROI)
 Industry analysis and industry life cycle
 Ratio/Cross Sectional Analysis
 Trend/Time series analysis
 Common size income statements and balance sheers
 Horizontal vs. vertical analysis
 Evaluating financial risk
 Case study

Who Should Attend
This course targets middle managers that are at a crossroads in their careers and need to succeed in increasing their responsibilities. It gives a great value added to all attendees, providing a foundation for continuing career development. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in economic industries and financial statement analysis.

Duration : 20 Hours

Objective
This course is designed to enhance the participants understanding of fundamentals of project analysis & finance and to evaluate projects in terms of risk and return. The course will also explore the most common financing instruments and sources.

Content
 What is money
 Traditional services provided by financial institutions
 Recent innovation in banking
 Effective credit management
 Project Financing (Investments Requirements)
    o Equity finance
    o Dept finance
    o Bond Issue
    o Long and medium term Bank loans.
    o Leasing
    o BOT
    o Risk assessment
 Operating & Trade Finance
    o The operating cycle
    o JIT technique
    o Short term financing Requirements all alternative methods of finance:
 Bank Facilities and bank overdrafts
 Credit facilities
 Factoring
 Securitization

Who Should Attend
This course targets top-level managers, executives and directors who want to improve and develop their skills and get acquainted with the latest development in their field today. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in banking and credit.

Duration : 20 Hours

Objective
This course is designed to enhance the participants’ skills of applying cost accounting techniques and concepts, for decision-making purposes.

Content
 Basic cost accounting concepts and objectives
 The concepts of different costs for different purposes
 The concept of variable versus fixed costs
 The concept of direct versus indirect costs
 Job-order costing system
 Process costing system
 Joint products and by-products costing
 Activity based costing
 Value base costing
 Responsibility accounting and transfer pricing
 The relevant cost concept – Case Study

Who Should Attend
This course targets middle managers that are at a crossroads in their careers and need to succeed in increasing their responsibilities. It gives a great value added to all attendees, providing a foundation for continuing career development. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in project and cost accounting.

Duration : 20 Hours

Objective
This course is designed to enhance the participants understanding of fundamentals of feasibility analysis and to evaluate new projects and or products in terms of risk and return. The course will also explore the most common tools and techniques of feasibility studies.

Content
 Feasibility studies versus business plan
 Opportunities analysis and choice among alternatives
 Pre-investment studies
 Pre-feasibility studies
 Technical feasibility analysis
 Marketing feasibility analysis
 Economic feasibility analysis
 Socio-economic feasibility analysis
 Financial feasibility analysis
 Environmental impact assessment
 Developing a small business feasibility study
 Function of a feasibility plan – proof of
 Feasibility study (proof of business concept) outline

Who Should Attend
This course targets top level managers, executives and directors who want to improve and develop their skills and get acquainted with the latest development in their field today. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in conducting feasibility studies for new products and products.

Duration : 25 Hours

Objective
This course is designed to enhance the participants’ understanding of financial statements and the use of these statements for performance evaluation and for purposes of investments analysis. Participants will become familiar with the balance sheet, accounts and financial statements, and their impact on the profitability and liquidity of the company.

Content
 Accounting as a basis for business decisions
 What accounting information is important
 Who uses accounting information
 The accounting process
 The income statement
 Cash flow statements
 Reading Financial Statements
 Analysis and interpretations of financial statements
 Preparing and analyzing financial ratios
 Sources of finance and leverage
 Short –term debt financing
 Equity financing
 Long-term debt financing

Who Should Attend
This course targets middle managers who are at a crossroads in their careers and need to succeed in increasing their responsibilities. It gives a great value added to all attendees, providing a foundation for continuing career development. It helps you to succeed in your goal of increasing proficiency in handling accounting and financial issues.

Duration : 25 Hours