Product Management Fundamentals
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Finance Fundamentals for Non Finance Managers
Master the Science of Raising, Allocating, Utilizing & Documenting Financial Resources
Foster and hone financial expertise to manage strategic business units
Course Length
5 weeks
Effort
7 Hours/Week
100% Online
With Continuous Learning Community support + Monthly Live Webinars
Learning Access
Resource Toolkit + Unlimited Networking Events + Practice Session with Coach (Optional)
What will you Learn?
- Communicate & collaborate with stakeholders & business/financial leaders using the right terminology and vocabulary
- Learn about fundamental finance concepts
- Develop skills in interpreting financial statements
- Analyze product P&L to identify trends
- Apply finance concepts learned in the last term to create bottom-up financial models for businesses
- Understand the basics of Enterprise Valuation, Pre & Post Money Equity valuation
- Gain proficiency in designing and presenting financial data
Key Topics Covered
- Understanding Financial Statements for business applications
- Documenting and reading Financial statements pertaining to business activities
- Analysing financial statements using relevant ratios to assess firm health
- Creating and assessing cash flows to arrive at resource allocation decision
Course Content
Chapter 1 - Finance & Accounting for Managers
Introduction
Additional Learning Resources
Additional Learning Resources
Chapter 2 - Accounting : Understanding Financial Statements
The Language of accounting
What is Capital? How does it increase?
What are the Primary Financial Statements, and what are their building blocks?s
Assets, Liabilities, Incomes & Expenses
Building a personal Balance Sheet
Building a Company Balance Sheet
What is the P&L Account?
The PL An introduction
Items in a PL statement
Format of PL Account
What happens during each transaction
A few initial entries
Some more entries
Entries for the end of the Year
Observations on Balance Sheet
Some accounting Concepts and Conventions
The key accounting concepts
Valuation of Assets shown in the Balance Sheet
Creating a template for PL and Balance Sheet
Making Accounting entries (Part-2)
Making Accounting entries (Part-3)
Additional Learning Resources
What is Capital? How does it increase?
What are the Primary Financial Statements, and what are their building blocks?s
Assets, Liabilities, Incomes & Expenses
Building a personal Balance Sheet
Building a Company Balance Sheet
What is the P&L Account?
The PL An introduction
Items in a PL statement
Format of PL Account
What happens during each transaction
A few initial entries
Some more entries
Entries for the end of the Year
Observations on Balance Sheet
Some accounting Concepts and Conventions
The key accounting concepts
Valuation of Assets shown in the Balance Sheet
Creating a template for PL and Balance Sheet
Making Accounting entries (Part-2)
Making Accounting entries (Part-3)
Additional Learning Resources
Chapter 3 - Basic of Investment Evaluation : The Tools
Compound Interest
Periodic Compounding
Compounding vs. Discounting
A = P*(1+r)^n and its derivations
The rule of 72
Applying the rule of 72
The impact of compounding
Arithmetic Mean vs Geometric Mean
Mean or Median which average to use
Periodic Compounding
Compounding vs. Discounting
A = P*(1+r)^n and its derivations
The rule of 72
Applying the rule of 72
The impact of compounding
Arithmetic Mean vs Geometric Mean
Mean or Median which average to use
Chapter 4 :The Basics of Investment Evaluation
Present Values and Future Values of A Cash flow
$100 now or $110 later?
The Required Rate of Return “r”
My expectation of “r” depends on risk perception
Two Projects: A and B
$100 now or $110 later?
The Required Rate of Return “r”
My expectation of “r” depends on risk perception
Two Projects: A and B
Chapter 5 - Investment Evaluation: How to deal with cash flows of Differing time periods
Given a series of cash flows, how to add them?
Present value of an annuity
Investing in a Bond – what happens when I buy a bond?
When I sell a bond, how do people value it?
Three requirements for a DCF
Why analyzing cash flows and not profits is important?
Spreadsheet conventions for DCF problems
DCF two methods – NPV & IRR
The Capital Budgeting Process
Investment Evaluation – A few key concepts and terms
Present value of a growing perpetual annuity
Present value of an annuity
Investing in a Bond – what happens when I buy a bond?
When I sell a bond, how do people value it?
Three requirements for a DCF
Why analyzing cash flows and not profits is important?
Spreadsheet conventions for DCF problems
DCF two methods – NPV & IRR
The Capital Budgeting Process
Investment Evaluation – A few key concepts and terms
Present value of a growing perpetual annuity
Chapter 6 - A Capital Budgeting problem
A Capital Budgeting Problem – ABC ltd
Additional Learning Resources
Additional Learning Resources
Conclusion
Conclusion
Resource Library
Resource Library
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