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Understanding Financial Markets and Management

Benefits and Added Value

This module is designed to help the participants understand, use and apply the modern principles of the financial management tools in analyzing financial markets. The 1st part of this program aims to introduce the concepts of financial markets with concentration on securities market and stock exchange, the different type of mutual funds, securities market types of efficiency and the concept of technical analysis. The 2nd part is to introduce the financial reports and how balance sheets and income statements can be adjusted to prepare the cash flow statements.

Structure

This program will be conducted over five sessions, five hours per session, i.e. 25 hours. It will cover the following topics and issues:

  • 1st The concept of Financial Management
    • The difference between accounting and financial management
    • Financial Markets and their different types
    • Securities Markets
    • Stock exchange and its institutions
    • Mutual funds and its different types.
    • Securities market efficiency
    • Technical Analysis
  • 2nd The Published Financial reports
    • Balance sheet statement
    • Income statement
    • Cash flow statement
  • 3rd Cash flow statement
    • How balance sheet and income statements can be adjusted to prepare the cash flow statement.
    • Cases Studies to show how to prepare, read and analyze the cash flow statement.
Target Participants

This program is targeting junior executives working in financial departments in non financial corporations and also junior executives in credit department of banks and the financial institutions.

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