Business Transformation Training and Consultancy
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A training event to help professional and technical staff to understand the business environment that they work within in order to add appropriate additional value.
Course Overview
This course tackles the key business issues which today’s professional has to confront, within an increasingly competitive commercial environment. It will provide thorough instruction on critical business skills, which the professional will be able to draw on throughout their careers.
Course Content
- Government legislation and its affect on businesses and how they are run.
- The different of types of organisation, including private sector, public sector and
not-
for- profit organisations (the third sector). - Financing a start-
up company covering why capital is needed and the legal processes of - setting up a business, including; the business plan and sources of business finance.
- How to manage finance by fully understanding the balance sheet, the profit and loss account
- and the cash flow statement.
- The use of financial ratios to better interpret business performance.
- The importance of working capital and liquidity within any organisation.
- The best approaches towards costing and the principles of budgeting.
- How to manage cash flow and the importance of cash flow forecasting.
- Investment appraisal techniques, including break even or payback, discounted cash flow
- (including Net Present Value) and Internal Rate of Return.
- Organisational structure, with examples of and the effectiveness of different types of structure
- using various organisational models, including the issue of centralisation versus
- decentralisation.
- Span of control and its relationship with the scalar levels of structure and the appropriateness
- within different types of business are discussed.
- The roles of traditional functions: Sales, Marketing, Operations, Procurement, Finance and
- Human Resources and how new business models are challenging these traditional roles.
- Plain English review of various legal issues pertinent to the professional scope of attendees.
