Course overview

This course will provide you and your team with the tools you need to analyse financial data and understand business accounts.

Both the published statutory accounts and internal management accounts can give valuable information about the financial performance of a business. The danger is that if you take these financial reports at face value, it can give a misleading impression.

An objective, well-considered understanding of the financial statements is crucial when it comes to making important decisions about which direction your business moves in. This could be deciding which supplier to work with, determining what the financial position of potential customers looks like or recommending who to lend money to and much more. Our Understanding and Analysing Company Accounts course covers a comprehensive review and analysis of the financial statements. It also provides essential guidance on what to look out for in the annual report and which Notes to the Accounts are important to review.

During this course, you will dig deeper into the numbers using robust ratio analysis, identifying and assessing the financial strengths and weaknesses of the business. Your team will consider how accounting policies and procedures may have been carefully selected by the company to create a particular impression as well as learning the limitations of published accounts that it’s vital to be aware of. Through trend analysis, benchmarking and applying the results to the way the business operates, you will have the tools and confidence to make sound business decisions and recommendations.

All of your people who attend our practical Understanding and Analysing Company Accounts course will be encouraged to create a personal action plan at the end. This will guide them in applying everything learned during the course to their own work environment, resulting in robust, hands-on application.

You can find more details of how we do this on our bespoke learning page.

Who this course is aimed at

Our Understanding and Analysing Company Accounts course is hugely beneficial for anyone who needs to assess company performance to drive business decisions and recommendations. This could be people working outside of finance as well as those within your Finance team. The level this course is pitched at and the content that is included can be easily tailored to suit your people and their roles.

Course objective

This course will provide the practical tools and techniques that are vital in gaining a robust analysis of an organisation’s financial accounts, assessing the financial strengths and weaknesses. Through guided practice, your team will gain the confidence to apply these to their own roles and business decisions.

Practical information

This course can be tailored to your own organisation and your specific requirements in terms of content, learning objectives and the method of learning facilitation. Please contact us or visit our bespoke learning page to find out how we can do this.

Steve was brilliant and made light work of what could have been very challenging. I will most definitely be using my learnings going forward in my role.

PARTICIPANT, MICHELDEVER GROUP LTD

The real-life examples used made me understand this so much more easily than I had expected. The trainer was engaging, positive and I found it very easy to ask plenty of questions.

PARTICIPANT, LANDSEC PLC

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