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12 Hour MBA
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9 – 11 February 2015, Manila
27 – 29 May 2015, Singapore
í Understand and communicate the numbers behind your
business
í Identify business opportunities and become more
commercially aware
í Understand the impact of your decisions on the bottom
line of your organisation
Comprehensive training for those who seek
true business advantage
Finance
16 – 18 November 2015, Bangkok
14 – 16 December 2015, Singapore

2. Register now: www.terrapinntraining.com or call (+65) 6322 2333
Your trainer
David Silipo worked for 8 years as a chartered
accountant in PricewaterhouseCoopers, rising
to the level of Senior Manager, responsible for
the design, authoring and delivery of corporate
education and internal staff training across
Australasia on a variety of accounting, auditing,
tax and professional development topics.
David then moved to Macquarie Bank and
spent 4 years as Senior Manager of Training
and Staff Development at Macquarie Bank,
where he was responsible for the design,
authoring and delivery of staff training in
financial markets and treasury accounting.
True business advantage
Together, the 3 Day MBA in Finance and the
12 Hour MBA in Finance enable you to:
• Introduce core principles before the course
• Be fully engaged with your peers and trainer
• Reinforce key learning after the course
Understand your financial statements
Analyse financial statements by using ratios to determine, business
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Improve your decision making
Understand the importance of costing techniques to strategic
decision making.
Learn how to value companies
Determine the value of a company and its key value levers.
Discover how to read annual reports
Analyse an annual report to appreciate the story behind the
numbers.
Learn how to manage the performance of your
organisation
Find out how financial data converted into information can start to
reveal a business situation and prospects.
Understand the differences between accounting
and economic return
Discover how to link finance and strategy and drive corporate value.
Learn about investment appraisal
Review techniques for project evaluation and understand the nature
of risk.
Find out how to drive long-term corporate value
Learn how to use valuation techniques to understand long-term
business unit and corporate value.
The 12 Hour MBA delivers courses online,
through video, quizzes and exercises.
Get to grips with the fundamentals of the
finance at your own pace. You will cover:
• Understand the fundamentals
• Master the terminologies
• Understand the impact of decisions to
the bottom line
• Identify business opportunities and
become more commercially aware
• And much more...
Find out more at www.12hourmba.com
FREE
when you
book your
place on
the three-day
training
course
• Airbus
• Asia Steel & Metals Ltd
• BHP Billiton
• Cadbury
• Chevron
• Cisco Systems
• Danareksa
• Energy Market Authority of
Singapore
• Epson
• Malaysian Communications
and Multimedia
Commission
• Maybank
• Ministry of Finance Brunei
• National Australia Bank
• Novartis
• PETRONAS
• Saudi Arabian Oil Company
• Shell
• Zenith Investment Partners
Past attendees include:
“David is crystal clear
in his definitions and
explanations of financial
concepts.”
Past attendee | DSM Nutritional
Products
“The course was very
good and presented in
a step-by-step manner,
which allowed me to
gain an understanding
of financial statements
and ratios.”
Past attendee | 3 Day MBA in
Finance
Who attends?

3. To view the full training programme and register: www.terrapinntraining.com
Fundamentals & foundations
of finance
Introduction to Finance and
Accounting
• Seminar overview
• 3 financial statements game
• The 3 financial statements
– how they link, how they differ
The Accounting Process
• The accounting process – source
documents, ledger and reports
Case Study: You will work on
“ExcelloGroceries” financial reports
The Forecasting Process
• The master budget
• The revenue budget
• Expenditure budgets
• Zero base budgeting
• Profit budgets
• Cash budgets
• Infrastructure budget
Costing and the Cost Allocation
Process
• Accountant’s concept of cost
• Costing terms
• Allocate costs to products and
services
Managing Working Capital
• Accounting for prepayments
• Plan inventory production, costing and
valuation, recognise problem inventory
• Monitor debtors, recognise bad and
doubtful debts and collection
• Manage creditors and recognise
accruals
Manage cash flows,
financing investment and risk
management
Cash Flow
• The cash flow cycles – operating,
investing and financing
• Evidence of self-generation and
warning signals
• Assess cash flow performance
Evaluating Sources of Finance
• Equity vs. borrowing vs. self
generation
• Types of equity, rights issues
• Types of borrowings – debentures,
corporate bonds, installment-sale
agreements, leasing, lease or buy
decisions, bank overdrafts, factoring,
commercial papers, financing through
shippers, overseas borrowings
• Other – sale and lease back, venture
capital, business partners, project
finance
Risk Management
• Forward contracts to hedge exchange
rates
• Futures contracts to hedge interest
rates
• Forward rate agreements (FRAs)
to protect against rises and falls in
interest rates
• Swap contracts to reduce exposure to
increases in interest rates
• Futures options (using gilts/bonds) to
hedge interest rates
Production Capacity
• Invest in production capacity
• Production capacity life cycle
• Concepts of cost and depreciation
Evaluating Investment Proposals
• Break-even analysis
• Cash flows evaluation – payback
period, net present value, internal rate
of return and accounting rate of return
Performance appraisal and
ratio analysis
Regular Performance Review
• Reliability and timeliness of
management accounts
• Compare actual with budget
• Take remedial action to stay on track
• Consider implications for remainder of
year
Analyse Financial Performance
• Review annual reports and using
spreadsheets
• Review the three financial statements
over time
Financial and Ratio Analysis
• Liquidity, management efficiency,
financing and profitability ratios
• Asset utilisation
• Share performance, e.g. earnings per
share (EPS) and price/earnings (P/E)
ratio
• Economic value added (EVA)
• Use analysis to improve performance
Case Study: Practical Application
You’ll review two companies’ annual
reports and their performance through a
spreadsheet over at least 5 years
Techniques for Valuing Businesses
and Assets
• Investigation – research and
documentation, interviewing key
personnel and external parties
• Net asset values (with and without
goodwill)
• Capitalisation of earnings methods
• Discounted cash flow (DCF)
• Valuation of trademarks, name
registrations, copyrights, designs,
patents etc.

4. This is something different in management and
professional training courses. We specialise in big
ideas and fundamentals so you can master complex
subjects, at speed.
Receive the essence of an MBA without, of course,
actually doing one.
Our curriculum is presented across the world and
covers the most important markets and disciplines.
We offer public, online and in-house courses. All of our
courses are certified by an independent body, the CPD
Certification Service, and can be counted toward CPD
credits.
Visit www.terrapinntraining.com for more details.
Business Reg No: 198902388R
*NOTE: This is not a postgraduate course and completion will not
entitle delegates to the conferral of any degree or postgraduate award.
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