Accounting and Finance Training

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Accounting and Finance Training:

Finances are the lifeblood of any organization. The series includes lessons that provide the learner with an overview of accounting and finance that will raise their business acumen and increase their value to the organization. The accounting and finance training series is 8 hours of content.

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 Accounting Statements and Balance Sheets
  • The different types of assets and how they compare
  • How balance sheets work
  • How income statements work 
Accrual Accounting Part 1
  • Understand the difference between cash-basis and accrual accounting
Accrual Accounting Part 2
  • Understand the difference between cash-basis and accrual accounting
  • Know how to interpret financial statements to better understand your business
Analyzing Financial Leverage for a Business
  • What is a company's degree of financial leverage?
  • How do you calculate the degree of financial leverage of a company?
  • What is the price to earnings ratio?
  • How does the degree of financial leverage relate to the price to earnings ratio?
Applying Breakeven Analysis in the Workplace
  • What is breakeven analysis?
  • Why is breakeven analysis an important part of business finance?
Balancing the Books
  • How to manage accounts
  • Where accounts are recorded
  • What to do about payroll
Banking 101
  • How basic banking works for most businesses
Bookkeeping and Accounting
  • Know the purpose of accounting and why is it important for a business
  • Understand the difference between assets and liabilities
  • Explain the various types of proprietorship
Business and Financial Information for Small Businesses
  • Gain answers to some of the most frequently asked questions in business
  • Access important small business resources
  • Discover the growing world market of importing and exporting
Business Graphs, Charts and Other Calculations
  • Gain answers to some of the most frequently asked questions in business
  • Access important small business resources
  • Discover the growing world market of importing and exporting
Business Math
  • How to effectively use a calculator
  • How to use Excel to complete multiple calculations
Challenges Facing the Accounting Profession
  • Discuss the future of the profession
  • Learn about career opportunities in accounting
Cost of Capital: What does money cost?
  • Know what cost of capital is
  • Know how the weighted average cost of capital is calculated
  • Know how to compute the cost of debt and the cost of equity
Efficiency Indicators: Days Inventory
  • What is Days Inventory?
  • What is Inventory Turnover?
  • How do I calculate Days Inventory Outstanding and Inventory Turnover?
  • How do these concepts relate to a the efficiency of a business?
Efficiency Indicators: Days Payable
  • What is days payable?
  • What is payable turnover?
  • How do I calculate days payable and payable turnover?
  • How do these concepts relate to business efficiency?
Efficiency Indicators: Days Receivable
  • What is days receivable?
  • What is receivable turnover?
  • How do these concepts relate to business efficiency?
  • How do I interpret days receivable?
Efficiency Indicators: The Cash Conversion Cycle
  • What is the Cash Conversion Cycle?
  • How do I calculate a business's Cash Conversion Cycle?
  • Why is the Cash Conversion Cycle important?
Exploring Competition in Business
  • Describe perfect competition
  • Explain how supply and demand interact to set prices in a free market system
  • Describe monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly
Filing Business Taxes
  • In what situations one should file business taxes
  • When and where to file business taxes
Financial Statements: Introducing the Balance Sheet
  • Know what an asset is and learn the difference between current and fixed assets
  • Understand what counts as a liability and the difference between current and long-term liabilities
  • Learn what is meant by "liquidity" as it relates to accounting
  • Understand what counts as owner's equity and retained earnings
Financial Statements: Introducing the Income Statement
  • Learn how to recognize an income statement
  • Understand what needs to be present on an income statement
  • Learn the Matching Principle of accounting
  • Know what is meant by ''accrual accounting''
Financial Statements: Introducing the Statement of Cash Flows
  • Know what the three sections of a Statement of Cash Flows are
  • Know what types of cash flows are reported in each section
  • Know the difference between what's represented on the Statement of Cash Flows and the Income Statement
Financial Statements: Reading a Balance Sheet
  • Understand the basics of accounting
  • Learn how to read a Balance Sheet and know how it fits into a financial statement
Financial Statements: Reading a Statement of Cash Flows
  • Learn how to read a statement of cash flows
  • Understand how the statement of cash flows incorporates into a financial statement
Financial Statements: Reading an Income Statement
  • Know the items that will appear on any income statement
  • Know what's represented by the different subtotals on an income statement
Financing Solutions for Small Businesses
  • What the Small Business Administration (SBA) is
  • How to use the SBA to get bank loans for your business
Forecasting Demand and Breakeven Analysis
  • Forecast demand for a product
  • Understand how to find the breakeven point for a company
Government's Role in Managing the Economy
  • Discuss the role of the government in managing the economy
International Finance Considerations for Business
  • Know what exchange rates are
  • Know how changes in exchange rates affect trade and jobs
  • Know what forward rates are and how they're used to minimize risk
Intro to Financial Analysis: Assessing the Performance of Your Company
  • Know how to use the information from financial statements to learn about the financial health and performance of a company
Investing With the Time Value of Money
  • What is time value of money?
  • What is future value, and how do I calculate it?
  • What is present value, and how do I calculate it?
  • What is an annuity, and how do I calculate it?
Linking Risk and Return to Business
  • What is risk and return in finance?
  • How do I relate the concept of risk and return to financial investments?
  • What are some useful common finance terms?
Managing Deposits and Withdrawals
  • The ins and outs of deposits, withdrawals, and special banking situations
Measuring the Health of the Economy
  • How to understand the criteria used to assess the status of the economy
More SBA Loan Programs
  • How to use the Small Business Administration to help your business
Performance Drivers: Calculating Asset Efficiency
  • What is Asset Turnover and how do I calculate it?
  • How do I interpret this data at the firm level? At the industry level?
Performance Drivers: Calculating Margins
  • What are margins and how are they useful in calculating business profitability?
  • How do I calculate different margins using the income statement?
  • How do I interpret this data at the firm level? At the industry level?
Reviewing the Basics of Business Structures
  • What is the flow of business?
  • What are the different forms of ownership of a business?
ROI: Calculating Internal Rate of Return
  • Know what the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is
  • Know the difference between simple ROI and the IRR
  • Know how to do an IRR calculation using online tools
  • Know how to compare projects and investments to decide which ones are worthwhile for a company
ROI: Calculating Net Present Value
  • Know what a Net Present Value calculation is and what it's used for
  • Know what the Time Value of Money means to a financial accountant
  • Know how to calculate these values, and where to look for automated calculations of these values
  • Know how to assess the worth of a project or investment based on its Net Present Value
ROI: Calculating the Payback Method
  • What is ROI and why is it important to business financing?
  • What is the Payback Method?
  • What are some advantages and disadvantages to using the Payback Method?
The Many Forms of Money
  • How banking works for most businesses
  • The right situations to use ATM cards, cashier’s checks, and other sorts of currency
The Role of Accounting in Business
  • Define accounting and identify the different uses of accounting information
Travel and Automobile Expense Reports
  • What a travel expense record is
  • How to fill out a vehicle expense record
  • How to simplify the process of keeping expense records
Understanding Bonds and their Values
  • What is a bond?
  • How are bonds valued?
  • What changes a bond's valuation?
Using ROA and ROE as Performance Indicators
  • What is ROA and ROE?
  • Why are these figures important and how do they relate to business performance?
  • How do I interpret ROA and ROE?
What is Economics?
  • Define economics and identify factors of production
  • Explain how economists answer the three key economics questions
  • Compare and contrast economic systems