Mastering Leadership, Team Management, and Financial Excellence
26 - 30 May 2025
Sandton
Johannesburg South Africa
Cost per Delegate
R19,999.00
Overview:
The Mastering Leadership, Team Management, and Financial Excellence course provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of effective leadership, team dynamics, and financial management principles. Through a combination of theoretical knowledge, practical applications, and case studies, participants will gain insights into various leadership styles, learn strategies for building high-performance teams, and develop proficiency in financial analysis and decision-making.
This seminar brings together two of the most critical areas of financial management: understanding finance to influence strategic decisions and financial analysis, planning, and control.
Through interactive sessions and real-life simulations, participants will have the opportunity to apply learned concepts, analyze case studies, and develop action plans for professional development. By the end of the course, participants will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to effectively lead teams, make informed financial decisions, and contribute to the overall success of their organizations.
Course Objectives:
• Equip participants with comprehensive leadership skills applicable in various organizational contexts.
• Provide strategies and techniques for effective team management and collaboration.
• Enhance participants' understanding of financial concepts and their application in decision-making processes.
• Integrate leadership principles with financial management practices to drive organizational success.
• Develop practical skills through case studies and real-life simulations.
targeted Groups:
• Financial analysts.
• Financial controllers.
• Accountants.
• Treasurers.
• Corporate planning professionals.
• Business development professionals.
• Middle and junior management is a valuable element in their career advancement.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this mastering leadership and financial skills course, the participants will be able to:
• Identify the role of financial management in strategic decision-making.
• Use the financial techniques of planning and control.
• Improve performance from the use of the tools of economic financial analysis.
• Develop business strategies.
• Understand how financial management supports strategic development.
• Broaden their financial knowledge.
• Develop and manage the financial aspects of their role more effectively and enhance their
• performance.
• Increase their self-confidence in dealing with economic and financial issues and financial
• professionals.
• Appreciate how such decisions may affect their departments, business units, and companies.
• Acquire the ability, when involved in decisions about investment, operations, or financing, to
• choose the most appropriate tools from the wide variety of financial techniques available to
• provide a quantitative analysis.
• Understand the exact nature and scope of the business problems to be analyzed.
• Obtain quick 'ballpark' estimates of likely outcomes of decisions.
• Understand the implications and relative importance of cash flow distinct from accounting
• profit in economic and financial analysis.
Targeted Competencies
• Strategic planning and thinking.
• Financial statements.
• Budgeting.
• Financial risk management.
• Business performance management.
• Financial, economic decision-making.
• Investment decision-making.
• Course Content
Unit 1: Fundamentals of Strategic Planning
• What is strategy?
• Strategic management.
• Strategic analysis.
• Mission.
• Objectives.
• Strategic decision-making.
• The strategic planning process.
• Environmental analysis.
• Resources analysis.
• Strategic choice and strategic decision-making.
• Strategic implementation.
• Corporate objectives and accountability.
• Forecasting financial data.
Unit 2: Fundamentals of Financial Statements
• Financial statements.
• Balance sheet.
• Income statement.
• Alternative asset valuation methods.
• Cash flow statement.
• Standard size or horizontal trend analysis of financial statements.
• Vertical trend analysis of financial statements.
• Segmental analysis of financial statements.
• Value-added analysis of financial statements.
• Understanding the cash flow cycle and the operating cycle.
• Break-even and multiple product break-even analysis.
Unit 3: Capital Structure and Leverage
• Sources of funds.
• Capital cost models.
• Cost of equity.
• Cost of debt.
• Weighted average cost of capital WACC.
• Can we determine a company's optimal capital structure?
• Capital structure models.
• Preparing projections to assess financing needs.
Unit 4: Capital Budgeting
• Future values, present values, and DCF.
• Capital budgeting principles.
• Methods of evaluating capital investment projects.
• Accounting rate of return ARR and payback.
• Net current value NPV versus internal rate of return IRR.
• How do you choose which method to use?
• Equivalent annual cost EAC method.
• Capital budgeting methods.
• Capital asset pricing model CAPM versus arbitrage pricing theory APT.
• Does it make a difference whether we lease or buy?
Unit 5: Managing Financial Risks
• The value of perfect information VOPI
• Types of risk.
• Risk management principles.
• Talking to your bankers about managing risk.
• How do you develop the tools for your company?
• How to minimize risk?
• Insurance and hedging.
• Interest rate and foreign currency exchange rate risk.
Unit 6: The Challenge of Financial Economic Decision-Making
• The practice of financial-economic analysis.
• Corporate value and shareholder value.
• A dynamic perspective of business Benchmarking your own strategic position/competitor
• analysis.
• The agency problem and corporate governance.
• What information and data to use?
• The nature of financial statements.
• The context of financial analysis and decision-making.
Unit 7: Assessment of Business Performance
• Ratio analysis and business performance.
• Management's point of view.
• Owners' point of view.
• Lenders' point of view.
• Ratios as a system - pyramids of ratios.
• Integration of financial performance analysis - the "Dupont" system.
• Economic value added EVA.
• Predicting financial distress.
Unit 8: Projection of Financial Requirements
• Interrelationship of financial projections.
• Operating budgets.
• Standard costing and variance analysis.
• Cash forecasts and cash budgets.
• Sensitivity analysis.
• Dynamics and growth of the business system.
• Operating leverage.
• Financial growth plans.
• Financial modeling.
Unit 9: Analysis of Investment Decisions
• Applying time-adjusted measures.
• Net present value NPV and internal rate of return IRR.
• Strategic perspective.
• EVA and NPV.
• Refinements of investment analysis.
• Equivalent annual cost EAC.
• Modified internal rate of return MIRR.
• Sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, simulation, and NPV break-even.
• Dealing with risk and changing circumstances.
Unit 10: Valuation and Business Performance
• Managing shareholder value.
• Shareholder value creation in perspective.
• Evolution of value-based methodologies.
• Creating value in restructuring and combinations.
• Financial strategy in acquisitions.
• Business valuation.
• Business restructuring and reorganizations.
• Management buyouts MBOs and management buy-ins MBIs
End of the Workshop
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