Corporate Finance and Reporting Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Financial Accountants, Management Accountants and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-A-120

Before you join: Participants should understand the main financial statements, basic double-entry accounting, budgeting and common financial terms such as revenue, depreciation, receivables, debt and interest.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Corporate finance decisions depend on financial reports that are accurate, comparable and connected to cash and value. Finance professionals must explain why reported profit differs from cash generation, assess whether investments create value, forecast funding needs, and present defensible recommendations to executives, lenders and boards. Weak links between accounting records, forecasts and investment decisions can produce liquidity pressure, covenant breaches, poor capital allocation and unreliable performance reporting.

This course connects IFRS-based financial reporting with the corporate finance methods used to plan, analyse and fund business activity. Participants examine linked financial statements, revenue recognition, leases, impairment, deferred tax, cash flow reporting and working-capital management. They then build integrated forecasts, analyse financial performance, calculate WACC, assess projects using NPV and IRR, evaluate funding choices, and develop business valuations using discounted cash flow and market multiples. The course also addresses earnings quality, accounting estimates, covenant headroom and board-level financial communication.

Teaching combines short technical briefings with facilitated case work, spreadsheet-based calculations, group analysis and finance decision simulations. Participants work with realistic reporting and planning data resembling the issues faced by banks, corporates, public bodies and project-based organisations. They leave with a reusable corporate finance and reporting toolkit containing forecast structures, cash flow models, valuation templates, ratio analysis formats and reporting checklists.

The course is suited to finance and accounting professionals who already work with budgets, management accounts, financial statements or business cases and need stronger command of the connections between reporting, cash, investment and financing decisions.

What you will be able to do

  • Analyse linked financial statements to explain profit, cash flow and value drivers
  • Apply IFRS recognition, measurement and presentation requirements to common reporting issues
  • Construct rolling cash forecasts and assess working-capital funding requirements
  • Evaluate financial performance using ratio analysis, DuPont analysis and earnings-quality indicators
  • Build integrated profit, balance-sheet and cash-flow forecasts using operational drivers
  • Appraise investments using NPV, IRR, WACC, sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis
  • Assess funding structures, debt capacity, covenant headroom and shareholder return implications
  • Prepare valuation and financial reporting recommendations for management and board decisions

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Produce clearer explanations of profit, cash flow and financial position
  • Build more credible forecasts for budgets, funding requests and business plans
  • Assess investment proposals using recognised value-based decision methods
  • Identify reporting risks before they affect management decisions or lender discussions
  • Present financial recommendations with stronger evidence, assumptions and sensitivity analysis

For your organisation

  • Improved consistency between financial reporting, planning and treasury forecasts
  • Earlier identification of liquidity pressure, covenant risk and working-capital weaknesses
  • Better capital allocation through disciplined NPV, IRR and scenario analysis
  • More reliable management information for executive, board and lender reporting
  • Stronger challenge of accounting estimates, earnings quality and valuation assumptions

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can connect reporting outcomes to cash generation, financing requirements and value creation.

  • Link income statement, balance sheet and cash flow through transaction effects
  • Apply IFRS recognition and measurement principles to financing and operating decisions
  • Distinguish profit, cash generation and value creation using connected financial statements
  • Map management incentives, agency costs and governance controls affecting reported performance
  • Trace working-capital movements from revenue recognition to operating cash flows
  • Assess accounting policy choices for comparability, earnings quality and covenant implications

Participants can apply core IFRS requirements when reviewing and preparing financial statement information.

  • Apply the IFRS Conceptual Framework when resolving recognition and measurement issues
  • Classify financial assets and liabilities under IFRS 9 business models
  • Measure inventories, receivables and provisions using IAS 2, IFRS 9, IAS 37
  • Separate current and non-current items using IAS 1 presentation requirements
  • Prepare statements of changes in equity and note disclosure cross-references
  • Identify material misstatements through analytical review and disclosure checklist testing

Participants can assess major recognition and measurement issues affecting reported profit and financial position.

  • Apply IFRS 15 five-step model to complex customer contracts
  • Allocate transaction prices across performance obligations using stand-alone selling prices
  • Test impairment indicators and recoverable amounts under IAS 36
  • Capitalise development expenditure only when IAS 38 recognition criteria are met
  • Account for leases using IFRS 16 right-of-use asset and liability models
  • Reconcile deferred tax balances under IAS 12 temporary differences method

Participants can prepare cash flow information and assess short-term liquidity requirements.

  • Construct indirect-method operating cash flows from profit and balance-sheet movements
  • Classify interest, dividends, taxes and lease payments under IAS 7
  • Build a 13-week rolling cash forecast from operational receipts and payments
  • Calculate cash conversion cycle, operating cycle and working-capital funding requirements
  • Stress-test liquidity using downside scenarios, covenant headroom and payment timing
  • Prioritise receivables, inventory and payables actions from cash-driver analysis

Participants can evaluate performance, financial health and earnings quality from published financial information.

  • Standardise financial statements before ratio analysis and peer benchmarking
  • Calculate profitability, liquidity, efficiency and solvency ratios from published accounts
  • Interpret ROIC, operating margin and asset turnover using DuPont analysis
  • Identify earnings-management warning signs through accruals, cash conversion and disclosures
  • Compare recurring performance with one-off items and accounting estimate changes
  • Present an investment-grade financial analysis with assumptions, findings and limitations

Participants can build driver-based forecasts linking operations, financial statements and funding needs.

  • Translate strategic assumptions into integrated profit, balance-sheet and cash-flow forecasts
  • Build driver-based revenue, cost and headcount forecasts with explicit assumptions
  • Model depreciation, amortisation and capital expenditure schedules for forecast statements
  • Reconcile forecast financing needs with debt capacity and liquidity constraints
  • Run base, upside and downside scenarios using sensitised operating drivers
  • Document forecast assumptions, version control and management review checkpoints

Participants can evaluate investment proposals using cash-flow-based valuation methods and explicit risk assumptions.

  • Estimate free cash flow using NOPAT, non-cash charges and investment needs
  • Calculate weighted average cost of capital from market and financing inputs
  • Value projects using NPV, IRR, payback and profitability index methods
  • Adjust discount rates and cash flows for inflation, tax and risk
  • Perform sensitivity, scenario and break-even analysis on investment proposals
  • Rank competing projects where capital rationing constrains available investment funds

Participants can assess financing alternatives and their effects on risk, returns and financial flexibility.

  • Compare debt, equity and hybrid funding by cost, risk and control
  • Assess capital structure using interest cover, net debt and gearing ratios
  • Model loan amortisation, bullet repayment and refinancing risk profiles
  • Interpret financial covenants, cure rights and headroom reporting requirements
  • Evaluate dividend policy against cash needs, profitability and shareholder expectations
  • Measure financing effects on earnings per share and return metrics

Participants can develop and explain a defensible valuation range using multiple valuation methods.

  • Build enterprise value from operating cash flows and terminal value assumptions
  • Derive equity value by reconciling enterprise value, debt and cash
  • Use trading multiples with comparable-company selection and normalisation adjustments
  • Apply precedent transaction analysis while distinguishing control premiums and synergies
  • Reconcile DCF, multiples and asset-based values into a valuation range
  • Explain valuation assumptions, sensitivity ranges and decision-useful conclusions to executives

Participants can convert reporting and corporate finance analysis into clear management actions.

  • Integrate reporting, cash, investment and financing outputs into management recommendations
  • Diagnose inconsistencies between forecast statements, valuation outputs and funding plans
  • Prepare board-ready charts, variance commentary and decision requests
  • Challenge assumptions using materiality, evidence quality and downside exposure tests
  • Prioritise actions through ownership, milestones and measurable finance outcomes
  • Create a 90-day application plan for workplace reporting and finance decisions

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Integrated three-statement forecast template
  2. 13-week rolling cash forecast model
  3. Financial ratio and DuPont analysis worksheet
  4. Investment appraisal and sensitivity analysis template
  5. DCF valuation and comparable-multiples model
  6. IFRS reporting review checklist

Who should attend

  • Financial Accountants — need to connect IFRS reporting choices with cash and finance decisions
  • Management Accountants — need stronger models for forecasts, investment cases and performance analysis
  • Finance Managers — need to assess liquidity, funding, valuation and board reporting issues
  • Financial Analysts — need structured methods for analysing statements and valuing businesses
  • Treasury Professionals — need clearer links between cash forecasts, debt capacity and covenants
  • Business Partners — need to challenge operational plans using financial evidence and value measures

Skills and tools covered

Financial statement analysisIFRS reportingCash flow forecastingInvestment appraisalBusiness valuationCapital structure analysis

Tools and standards

IFRS Accounting Standards, IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows, IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers, IAS 36 Impairment of Assets

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish IFRS requirements and corporate finance methods, followed by facilitated case analysis, spreadsheet calculations, group exercises and decision simulations. Participants interpret financial statements, prepare forecast inputs, assess investment proposals and review funding scenarios using realistic business data. Discussion focuses on assumptions, evidence, reporting judgement and the consequences of finance decisions. Each participant develops an application plan that identifies reporting, forecasting or investment-analysis improvements relevant to their role.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should understand the main financial statements, basic double-entry accounting, budgeting and common financial terms such as revenue, depreciation, receivables, debt and interest. Experience preparing management accounts, supporting budgets, reviewing reports or contributing to business cases is helpful. Participants should be comfortable working with percentages, ratios and spreadsheet calculations. Prior IFRS specialist knowledge, audit experience, advanced valuation skills, investment banking experience or a finance qualification are not required. The course develops these methods from an intermediate professional starting point.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should understand basic financial statements, budgeting and common accounting terms. Advanced IFRS expertise, audit experience or formal valuation training is not required.

Bring a laptop with spreadsheet software if possible, as the course includes financial modelling calculations. Participants may also bring anonymised examples of reports, forecasts or business cases they want to improve.

It is designed for financial accountants, management accountants, finance managers, analysts, treasury professionals and finance business partners. It is most valuable for professionals moving from reporting responsibilities into broader finance decision support.

An IFRS-only course concentrates on accounting standards and disclosure requirements, while a modelling course may focus mainly on spreadsheet construction. This course connects reporting standards with cash forecasting, investment appraisal, financing decisions and business valuation.

Participants can apply the methods to management accounts, cash forecasts, capital expenditure requests, lender reporting and board papers. The templates and application plan provide a starting point for improving current finance processes.

The course runs for five days from 08:30 to 16:30, providing approximately 32.5 contact hours. Time is allocated across ten teaching modules, combining technical instruction, case work, calculations, group discussion and application planning.

Questions about this course?

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