- Operating cash flow - Know how to calculate and analyze cash flow and free cash flow using direct and indirect methods. Know how to make forecasts. Cash and WCR management and optimization - Know how to calculate cash flows - Know how to establish cash positions - €/currencies - Calculate and interpret the main current asset turnover ratios (DSO, DPO, DII). - be able to draw up and reconcile cash flow forecasts - master methods for optimizing cash flow and WCR in conjunction with operational staff
- Project accounting - Earned value management - Understanding project accounting (cost accounting, earned value, performance measurement)
- Creation of value ROCE (ROIC), WACC - Creation of value: ROCE (ROIC) - WACC (WACC) - Return on capital employed - Rotation des actifs (assets turn) - Intensité capitalistique (capital intensity)
- Cost estimation, costing methods - Cost estimation, costing methods (target costing, analogical, parametric, analytical), level of precision, TCO, modes of evolution.
- Project management - Project management (tasks, PERT, GANTT, critical path)
- Forecasting methods - Construction of the forecast, forecast (reforecast or actual), budget, PMT and managing the forecasting cycle.
- Modeling, simulation, scenarios - Modeling, simulation, scenarios
- Project/program portfolio - Financial management of a project/program portfolio (PMO)
- Profitability and investment decisions - Building a business plan - Financial indicators of investment profitability (NPV, IRR, payback) - Risks and opportunities - Sensitivity - Reviewing and approving an investment file, model relevance, challenging assumptions
- Financial risks: counterparty, liquidity, interest rate, foreign exchange, equity - Analysis, valuation, risk mapping and hedging strategy: - Counterparty risk: financial analysis and mastering rating practices (internal, external) - Liquidity risk: ALM and group cash flow forecasts - Interest-rate risk: TF and TV loans, bond issues - Foreign exchange risk: exports, imports, hedging - Equity risk: dividends, share acquisitions and disposals, dealing room) - Project & (dis)investment risk Master the identification and valuation of financial and non-financial risks
- Securities and financial markets - Notions of cost of money, liquidity, inflation, capitalization, discounting, interest calculations, actuarial calculations
Understanding and implementing
Target audience
- Bankers / Account managers
- Project managers
- Management controllers
- Chartered accountants
- Financial, consolidation and accounting managers
2 day
Business Plan training
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge required
Objectives
◗ Acquire the approach and techniques for building a profitability study integrating the economic and financial specificities of the business sector.
◗ Acquire a systematic approach to assessing the consistency of assumptions and resources implemented in relation to strategic objectives.
◗ Use a few simple rules of communication to improve the impact of a business plan presentation.
Training program
◗ Define the objectives and logic of the Business Plan
- The business model at the service of a company project
- Project analysis: processes, players, components (business case and financial tables)
- Project value chain (major stages and milestones of a development project
development project, program)
✔ UNDERSTANDING | Illustration: boat model and navigation chart
(vision - impact - heading)
✔ ASSESS | Quiz: in your opinion... Is a BP useful only for raising funds?
◗ Building the forecast financial projection: identifying transactions and economic flows, information to collect and test
- From forecast margin to expected operating cash flow
- Investment flows
- Financing flows
✔ APPLIQUER | Case study: building a Canvas business model for a real project
or simulated project
✔ UNDERSTAND | Guided study: SWOT analysis and identification of critical variables
◗ Calculate project profitability and prepare for financing
- Cost of capital as a function of different financing sources,
leverage
- Cash curve and payback period
- Choice of discount rate and Net Present Value (NPV) of the project
- Project Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Criteria for financial decisions in an uncertain future
- Financing plan
✔ APPLY | Case study: construct the income statement and cash flow of a project
and calculate key performance indicators (IRR, NPV, payback, MCO).
✔ EVALUATE | Quiz: in your opinion... When do you break even?
◗ Forecast criticism
- Analytical review and systematic approach, making assumptions reliable and challenging them
- Sensitivity to assumptions
- Risk analysis
◗ Preparing your file for internal and external communication
- Content of the file according to the nature and scope of the project
- Building a structured, impactful sales pitch: message content, media and posture
✔ EXPERIMENTALIZING | Workshop: Preparing a synthetic pitch deck from the BP built
in the session
✔ EVALUATE | Group debrief: strengths of the pitch and suggestions for improvement
Why choose this course?
To validate a project, we need to draw up abusiness plan to ensure the coherence and viability of the project presented. The financial dimension of this exercise is particularly important.
However, thebusiness plan should not be limited to financial aspects. Whether you are a stakeholder in the development of the project, or a decision-maker validating its financing, this training course will give you the keys to the approach and techniques involved in drawing up abusiness plan.
Teaching and assessment methods
Before: self-assessment quiz
During the session: alternating theoretical developments and illustrations drawn from real-life situations. Gradual application of the lessons learned to a specific case and discussion during the session ensure that knowledge is acquired.
After the event: The trainer is available to answer any questions relating to the training.
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Price
1,860 EXCL.
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