Finance & Accounting
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Course
A five-day programme on advanced accounting and finance management, covering complex IFRS reporting, group consolidation and business combinations, advanced financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure and investment appraisal, budgeting, cost management, and financial control.
Introduction
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Training Course deepens the technical and managerial capability that senior finance roles require. Reporting standards keep changing, capital is scarcer, and boards expect finance to explain performance rather than just record it. This course builds that capability on solid ground. It covers advanced financial reporting under IFRS, consolidation, and group accounting. Furthermore, it applies financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure decisions, and investment appraisal. In addition, it develops budgeting, forecasting, cost management, financial risk, and control frameworks. As a result, participants manage finance functions with technical depth and commercial judgement.
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Course Objectives
- Apply advanced IFRS recognition, measurement, and disclosure requirements.
- Prepare consolidated financial statements for group structures.
- Account for business combinations, goodwill, and non-controlling interests.
- Analyse financial statements using advanced ratio and trend techniques.
- Optimise working capital across receivables, payables, and inventory.
- Evaluate capital structure, gearing, and cost of capital decisions.
- Appraise investments using NPV, IRR, and risk-adjusted methods.
- Build rolling forecasts and driver-based budget models.
- Apply cost management and activity-based techniques.
- Design financial risk and internal control frameworks.
Course Methodology
- Interactive lectures with advanced accounting and finance case studies.
- Consolidation and group accounting worked examples.
- Financial analysis and valuation modelling workshops.
- Capital structure and investment appraisal exercises.
- Structured peer review with facilitator feedback on financial recommendations.
Who Should Take This Course
- Finance managers and financial controllers.
- Senior accountants and reporting specialists.
- Group accounting and consolidation staff.
- Financial analysts and business partners.
- Treasury and corporate finance professionals.
- Internal auditors reviewing financial reporting and controls.
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Course Outlines
Advanced Financial Reporting
- • IFRS framework and recent standard developments.
- • Revenue recognition under IFRS 15 and contract analysis.
- • Leases under IFRS 16 and balance sheet effects.
- • Financial instruments under IFRS 9: classification and impairment.
- • Provisions, contingencies, and measurement uncertainty.
- • Deferred tax calculation and recognition.
- • Case study: applying IFRS to a complex transaction.
Group Accounting and Consolidation
- • Consolidation principles and the control concept.
- • Business combinations and acquisition accounting under IFRS 3.
- • Goodwill calculation, impairment, and non-controlling interests.
- • Intercompany eliminations and unrealised profit.
- • Equity method and joint arrangements.
- • Foreign currency translation of group entities.
- • Workshop: preparing a consolidated statement of financial position.
Financial Analysis and Working Capital
- • Advanced ratio analysis and financial modelling techniques.
- • Quality of earnings and earnings manipulation indicators.
- • Cash flow analysis and free cash flow computation.
- • Working capital cycle analysis and cash conversion metrics.
- • Receivables, payables, and inventory optimisation levers.
- • Segment, product, and customer profitability analysis.
- • Workshop: building a financial analysis model.
Capital Structure and Investment Decisions
- • Cost of capital: WACC, cost of equity, and cost of debt.
- • Capital structure theory and optimal gearing.
- • Dividend policy and shareholder return decisions.
- • Investment appraisal using NPV, IRR, and payback.
- • Risk-adjusted appraisal and real options basics.
- • Financing options: debt, equity, leases, and hybrids.
- • Workshop: appraising a capital investment and funding mix.
Planning, Cost Management, and Control
- • Driver-based budgeting and rolling forecast design.
- • Zero-based budgeting and cost optimisation programmes.
- • Activity-based costing and overhead allocation.
- • Variance analysis and performance reporting.
- • Financial risk management: currency, interest, and liquidity.
- • Internal control framework design and segregation of duties.
- • Course review, assessment, and action planning.
Conclusion
By successfully completing Advanced Accounting & Finance Management, participants will gain a thorough understanding of advanced IFRS reporting, group consolidation, financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure decisions, investment appraisal, budgeting, cost management, and financial control. They will also acquire practical skills in advanced financial reporting and consolidation, financial analysis and modelling, capital structure and investment appraisal, and budgeting, cost management and control design. In addition, the course prepares them to lead finance functions with technical authority and commercial insight. Gentex Training Center delivers this programme with a strong focus on applied finance technique and defensible financial decisions.
FAQs for Advanced Accounting & Finance Management course
— What is the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course about?
It is a five-day programme on advanced accounting and financial management practice. It covers IFRS reporting for complex transactions, group consolidation and business combinations, advanced financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure and cost of capital, investment appraisal, budgeting and forecasting, cost management, and financial control design.
— What are the key benefits of the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course?
Participants raise both reporting quality and commercial judgement, which improves board confidence and decision speed. The course reduces restatement and audit risk in complex areas, strengthens consolidation accuracy, sharpens capital and funding decisions, improves working capital and cash generation, tightens forecasting, and builds control frameworks that hold up under review.
— What skills will I gain from the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course?
Participants gain advanced financial reporting and group consolidation, financial analysis and modelling, capital structure evaluation and investment appraisal, and budgeting, cost management and financial control design. These four skills cover the practical core of senior finance work.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course?
The course covers the IFRS framework, IFRS 15 revenue recognition and contract analysis, IFRS 16 lease accounting, IFRS 9 financial instrument classification and impairment, provisions and measurement uncertainty, deferred tax calculation, consolidation principles and the control concept, IFRS 3 acquisition accounting, goodwill and non-controlling interests, intercompany eliminations and unrealised profit, the equity method and joint arrangements, foreign currency translation, advanced ratio analysis, quality of earnings review, earnings manipulation indicators, free cash flow computation, cash conversion cycle analysis, working capital optimisation levers, segment and customer profitability analysis, weighted average cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt estimation, capital structure theory and optimal gearing, dividend policy analysis, net present value, internal rate of return and payback appraisal, risk-adjusted appraisal and real options, debt, equity, lease and hybrid financing, driver-based budgeting and rolling forecasts, zero-based budgeting, activity-based costing, variance analysis, currency, interest rate and liquidity risk management, and internal control framework design with segregation of duties.
— How is the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply the methods to their own reporting and planning cycles. They prepare or review consolidated accounts, apply IFRS treatments to complex transactions, compute deferred tax, run financial analysis models, release cash from working capital, calculate cost of capital, appraise investments, build driver-based budgets and rolling forecasts, apply activity-based costing, and strengthen financial controls. Many leave with a consolidation checklist, a financial analysis model, and an investment appraisal template ready to use.
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Introduction
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Training Course deepens the technical and managerial capability that senior finance roles require. Reporting standards keep changing, capital is scarcer, and boards expect finance to explain performance rather than just record it. This course builds that capability on solid ground. It covers advanced financial reporting under IFRS, consolidation, and group accounting. Furthermore, it applies financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure decisions, and investment appraisal. In addition, it develops budgeting, forecasting, cost management, financial risk, and control frameworks. As a result, participants manage finance functions with technical depth and commercial judgement.
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Course Objectives
- Apply advanced IFRS recognition, measurement, and disclosure requirements.
- Prepare consolidated financial statements for group structures.
- Account for business combinations, goodwill, and non-controlling interests.
- Analyse financial statements using advanced ratio and trend techniques.
- Optimise working capital across receivables, payables, and inventory.
- Evaluate capital structure, gearing, and cost of capital decisions.
- Appraise investments using NPV, IRR, and risk-adjusted methods.
- Build rolling forecasts and driver-based budget models.
- Apply cost management and activity-based techniques.
- Design financial risk and internal control frameworks.
Course Methodology
- Interactive lectures with advanced accounting and finance case studies.
- Consolidation and group accounting worked examples.
- Financial analysis and valuation modelling workshops.
- Capital structure and investment appraisal exercises.
- Structured peer review with facilitator feedback on financial recommendations.
Who Should Take This Course
- Finance managers and financial controllers.
- Senior accountants and reporting specialists.
- Group accounting and consolidation staff.
- Financial analysts and business partners.
- Treasury and corporate finance professionals.
- Internal auditors reviewing financial reporting and controls.
Advanced Accounting & Finance Management Course Outlines
Advanced Financial Reporting
- • IFRS framework and recent standard developments.
- • Revenue recognition under IFRS 15 and contract analysis.
- • Leases under IFRS 16 and balance sheet effects.
- • Financial instruments under IFRS 9: classification and impairment.
- • Provisions, contingencies, and measurement uncertainty.
- • Deferred tax calculation and recognition.
- • Case study: applying IFRS to a complex transaction.
Group Accounting and Consolidation
- • Consolidation principles and the control concept.
- • Business combinations and acquisition accounting under IFRS 3.
- • Goodwill calculation, impairment, and non-controlling interests.
- • Intercompany eliminations and unrealised profit.
- • Equity method and joint arrangements.
- • Foreign currency translation of group entities.
- • Workshop: preparing a consolidated statement of financial position.
Financial Analysis and Working Capital
- • Advanced ratio analysis and financial modelling techniques.
- • Quality of earnings and earnings manipulation indicators.
- • Cash flow analysis and free cash flow computation.
- • Working capital cycle analysis and cash conversion metrics.
- • Receivables, payables, and inventory optimisation levers.
- • Segment, product, and customer profitability analysis.
- • Workshop: building a financial analysis model.
Capital Structure and Investment Decisions
- • Cost of capital: WACC, cost of equity, and cost of debt.
- • Capital structure theory and optimal gearing.
- • Dividend policy and shareholder return decisions.
- • Investment appraisal using NPV, IRR, and payback.
- • Risk-adjusted appraisal and real options basics.
- • Financing options: debt, equity, leases, and hybrids.
- • Workshop: appraising a capital investment and funding mix.
Planning, Cost Management, and Control
- • Driver-based budgeting and rolling forecast design.
- • Zero-based budgeting and cost optimisation programmes.
- • Activity-based costing and overhead allocation.
- • Variance analysis and performance reporting.
- • Financial risk management: currency, interest, and liquidity.
- • Internal control framework design and segregation of duties.
- • Course review, assessment, and action planning.
Conclusion
By successfully completing Advanced Accounting & Finance Management, participants will gain a thorough understanding of advanced IFRS reporting, group consolidation, financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure decisions, investment appraisal, budgeting, cost management, and financial control. They will also acquire practical skills in advanced financial reporting and consolidation, financial analysis and modelling, capital structure and investment appraisal, and budgeting, cost management and control design. In addition, the course prepares them to lead finance functions with technical authority and commercial insight. Gentex Training Center delivers this programme with a strong focus on applied finance technique and defensible financial decisions.
FAQs for Advanced Accounting & Finance Management course
— What is the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course about?
It is a five-day programme on advanced accounting and financial management practice. It covers IFRS reporting for complex transactions, group consolidation and business combinations, advanced financial analysis, working capital optimisation, capital structure and cost of capital, investment appraisal, budgeting and forecasting, cost management, and financial control design.
— What are the key benefits of the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course?
Participants raise both reporting quality and commercial judgement, which improves board confidence and decision speed. The course reduces restatement and audit risk in complex areas, strengthens consolidation accuracy, sharpens capital and funding decisions, improves working capital and cash generation, tightens forecasting, and builds control frameworks that hold up under review.
— What skills will I gain from the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course?
Participants gain advanced financial reporting and group consolidation, financial analysis and modelling, capital structure evaluation and investment appraisal, and budgeting, cost management and financial control design. These four skills cover the practical core of senior finance work.
— What tools, methods, or standards are covered in the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course?
The course covers the IFRS framework, IFRS 15 revenue recognition and contract analysis, IFRS 16 lease accounting, IFRS 9 financial instrument classification and impairment, provisions and measurement uncertainty, deferred tax calculation, consolidation principles and the control concept, IFRS 3 acquisition accounting, goodwill and non-controlling interests, intercompany eliminations and unrealised profit, the equity method and joint arrangements, foreign currency translation, advanced ratio analysis, quality of earnings review, earnings manipulation indicators, free cash flow computation, cash conversion cycle analysis, working capital optimisation levers, segment and customer profitability analysis, weighted average cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt estimation, capital structure theory and optimal gearing, dividend policy analysis, net present value, internal rate of return and payback appraisal, risk-adjusted appraisal and real options, debt, equity, lease and hybrid financing, driver-based budgeting and rolling forecasts, zero-based budgeting, activity-based costing, variance analysis, currency, interest rate and liquidity risk management, and internal control framework design with segregation of duties.
— How is the "Advanced Accounting & Finance Management" course applied in real-world practice?
Participants apply the methods to their own reporting and planning cycles. They prepare or review consolidated accounts, apply IFRS treatments to complex transactions, compute deferred tax, run financial analysis models, release cash from working capital, calculate cost of capital, appraise investments, build driver-based budgets and rolling forecasts, apply activity-based costing, and strengthen financial controls. Many leave with a consolidation checklist, a financial analysis model, and an investment appraisal template ready to use.
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