Course Description
This course will develop your understanding of financial reporting in business and it’s importance. It will consider how a company’s annual report and accounts provide an opportunity for its management to account for their actions to shareholders. The course will consider the framework provided by accounting and financial reporting standards, corporate legislation, and the requirements of stock markets around the world.
What Do Participants Learn?
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
- How financial information is prepared and presented.
- Why the accounting is done in this way.
- What the resulting information actually means for users.
Who Should Attend?
- Accounting and financial specialists.
- Those who wish to understand how to interpret the financial statements of business entities.
- Those who wish to learn the mechanics of preparing financial statements under IFRS.
- Individuals charged with the responsibility of providing financial information about a reporting entity that is useful to users in making decisions.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: Introduction
- Financial reporting
- The difference between profit and cash flow
- Qualitative characteristics
- Financial accounting
- Limited companies’ financial statements
- Accruals principle
- Prudence
- Pulling everything together
Section Two: Financial Reporting in Context
- The financial reporting system
- Corporate governance, sustainability and ethics
- Published financial statements of companies
- Techniques for the interpretation of financial statements
Section Three: Statement of Profit or Loss Reporting Issues
- Reporting performance
- Revenue from contracts with customers
- Earnings per share
- Taxation
Section Four: Statement of Financial Position Reporting Issues
- Property, plant and equipment, and impairment
- Intangible assets
- Inventories
- Liabilities
- Financial instruments
- Leases
- Employee benefits and share-based payments
Section Five: Consolidated Financial Statements
- Subsidiaries
- Associates, joint arrangements and statements of cash flow