Business financing - Tools and techniques

Prerequisites

You must have completed the “Financial Analysis – Level 1 – Reading and Understanding Financial Statements” [FHANFI] course .

Objectives

◗ Identify the company's financing needs.

◗ Compare the various existing financing methods, their terms, the parties involved, and the associated risks.

◗ Assess the impact on the financial statements to make decisions in this area.

Training program

◗ Understanding the challenges of financing and the causes of failure

– Default Risks and Economic Consequences
✔ UNDERSTAND | Illustration: Calculating the Impacts of a Late Payment and a Default
✔ UNDERSTAND | Illustration: The Chain of Impacts of a Payment Incident
– Preventing and Resolving Business Difficulties
✔ EVALUATE | Quiz: In your opinion… Who can trigger an early warning procedure?

◗ Choosing the right financing options

– Tailor financing to the company’s life cycle and risks
– Understand financing instruments: debt, equity, hybrid financing, crowdfunding
– Choose between cost, dilution, autonomy, and leverage
– Understand the key players in financing
✔ APPLY | Case study: Match financing instruments to the needs of a typical company
✔ UNDERSTAND | Illustration: Financing model based on life cycle stages
✔ UNDERSTAND | Illustration: Structure of Euronext

◗ Managing bank relations

– Understanding the banker’s perspective and constraints
– Prudential constraints, Basel ratios, banker’s risks
– Balance sheet equilibrium, banking margins, yield curve
– Managing the banking relationship: transparency, alerts, negotiation
✔ UNDERSTANDING | Brainstorming: the role of banks in financing and default

◗ Finance investments

– Financing an Investment Project and the Logic of Profitability
– Traditional Loans, Term Loans, Leasing, Sale and Leaseback
✔ APPLY | Case Study: The Relationship Between a Financing Repayment Profile and an Investment Project

◗ Finance the operating cycle

– Assignment of receivables: discounting, Dailly assignment, factoring
– Factoring and reverse factoring
– Revolving Credit Facility
– Export credit financing
✔ EVALUATE | Quiz: In your opinion… what is the real cost of factoring?
✔ UNDERSTAND | Brainstorm: What are the benefits of reverse factoring?

◗ Optimize cash flow

– Banking Competitions
– Physical or Notional Cash Pooling?
– Offsetting Intra-Group Receivables and Payables

Why choose this course?

This training program will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively contribute to an appropriate corporate financing strategy, monitor its effectiveness, and manage financial communications.

Teaching and assessment methods

Before the training: Submit your expectations via your online portal 15 days before the training begins and complete a self-assessment of your skills.

Teaching Methods: A variety of teaching methods to cater to different learning styles, encourage active participation, and reinforce learning through experimentation and practice.

Educational materials: presentation materials, reference materials (summary sheets, tables, etc.), and other resources available in your account.

During the training: theoretical concepts are alternated with examples drawn from real-life cases. Participants are given the opportunity to engage in role-playing exercises. Numerous practical exercises allow participants to demonstrate their mastery of the skills as the training progresses.

Training monitoring and evaluation: attendance sheet and certificate of completion. Immediate and post-training evaluations conducted using the LearnEval platform.

Price

1,860 EXCL.

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Corporate financing

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