Cash Forecasting & Financing, Investment, Business Valuation, and Risk
Creating Business Value from Appropriate Financing & Investment in Conditions of Uncertainty
Course Overview
Many professionals assume their financial knowledge is current and sufficient; however, the rapid evolution of global markets, regulation, and risk means this is rarely the case.
The Cash Forecasting & Financing, Investment, Business Valuation, and Risk training course is designed to strengthen and modernise participants’ financial analysis capabilities. It provides a structured and practical approach to cash forecasting, identifying and evaluating financing alternatives, assessing investment opportunities, and applying robust business valuation techniques. The course also addresses the key financial risks arising from today’s volatile economic, political, and global business environment.
Throughout this HighPoint Center training programme, participants will connect theory with real-world applications, enhancing their ability to improve cash flow, profitability, and value creation through sound financial decision-making and advanced analytical skills.
Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, will be able to:
- Integrate the working capital cash operating cycle into the development of robust cash flow forecasting models
- Evaluate alternative sources of long-term financing, their costs, and the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Apply discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques for capital investment appraisal, including NPV, IRR, MIRR, and EAC
- Assess the various purposes of business valuation and apply appropriate valuation models
- Analyse business and financial risks, including interest rate and foreign exchange exposure, and apply suitable risk management techniques
Course Audience
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals and is particularly beneficial for:
- Project managers and technical professionals
- Finance directors, chief financial officers (CFOs), financial controllers, and treasury professionals
- Financial and non-financial managers seeking to enhance their financial analysis and decision-making capabilities
Course Methodology
Course Outline
- Role and scope of financial management
- Financial statements: structure, use, and interpretation
- Financial statement analysis and evaluation
- Cash flow statement analysis
- Time series analysis, correlation, and regression
- Forecasting future cash flows and cash budgeting
- Cash versus profit: liquidity considerations
- Determining optimal cash levels (Baumol and Miller-Orr models)
- Cash conversion cycle analysis
- Working capital management strategies
- Internal and external sources of finance
- Cost of equity, cost of debt, and WACC
- Capital structure decisions
- Capital budgeting techniques
- ARR and payback methods
- DCF methods: NPV, IRR, MIRR, and EAC
- Investment risk analysis: sensitivity, scenario, and simulation
- Overview and applications of business valuation
- Mergers and acquisitions
- MBOs, MBIs, and LBOs
- Restructuring and reorganisation
- Valuation techniques:
- Discounted cash flow (DCF)
- Comparable companies analysis
- Practical case studies
- Business risk and financial risk
- Predicting financial distress and corporate failure
- Financial risk management strategies and hedging
- Derivatives: forwards, futures, options, and swaps
- Managing interest rate and foreign exchange risk
Certificates
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a HighPoint Center Certificate of Completion.