Programme Content
Across four core modules, you’ll learn new and enhanced techniques and tools for financial planning, analysis and valuation. You’ll explore theoretical, conceptual and practice-oriented insights. And you’ll leap back into your role with a toolkit of ready-to-use approaches to help you make decisions at local and international levels.
The Excellence in Corporate Finance programme comprises four modules:
Module 1: Making financial decisions
Learn to interpret financial statements and reports to evaluate a firm’s financial performance and risk
Know how to assess the cash conversion cycle to develop performance optimisation strategies
Understand financial planning and capital budgeting concepts
Estimate a firm’s free cash flows
Learn to critically analyse the financial press
Take part in the Working Capital Management Interactive Simulation Game
Module 2: Financing Strategies –a deeper dive
Discover how to calculate the current WACC of a firm
Learn to design the optimal capital structure of a firm
Understand how smart debt management creates value
Understand the CAPM model
Explore leverage – and know how much to borrow, versus raising equity
Module 3: Accounting for financial decision making
Develop your financial accounting literacy skills
Grasp the sociology of accounting
Understand the difference between historical cost and fair value accounting
Understand the key principles of accounting for financial instruments
Explore non-GAAP financial measures, and their potential to mislead
Discover AI For the Finance Leader – trends and challenges
Module 4: Capital budgeting and valuation
Apply advanced company valuation methodologies, including Real Option models
Evaluate, compare, and construct real-life capital budgeting valuation models
Explore managerial flexibility and making decisions under uncertainty
Discover sensitivity analysis, crystal ball and Monte Carlo simulations
