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Accounting and Financial Analysis
Deconstruct the numbers to unlock insights into company and competitor performance
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Use financial analysis to understand your business
Gain the skills and knowledge to measure a company's profitability, assess its strengths and weaknesses and understand the main drivers of value.
- Good for you
- Good for your organisation
Become an expert user of financial statements. Practice your skills on real and up-to-date company data and case studies.
Explore the current business landscape. Gain an in-depth understanding of accounting tools and advanced-level economic analysis.
Understand how the GAAP accounting rules, and company accounting choices, affect the measures we use when analysing and comparing firms.
Learn to tell a company’s economic story by measuring its company performance and financial strength.
Examine the major governance and regulatory issues, including those that arising from current concerns about sustainability.
10
of professional experience
on average
13
industries
on average per cohort
Recent attendees include:
Company board members
Financial analysts
Private equity investors and venture capitalists
Government officials
Strategy consultants
Lawyers
Financial planners
Risk managers
Who attends
Who attends
- By nationality
- By industry
The data above displays the top nationalities and top 10 industries across a three year average of participants on this programme.
Programme Content
Extract more value from financial statements
Deconstruct return on capital to reveal the economics of the business, and the drivers of return and value.
- What you learn
- How you learn
- Your learning experience
- FAQs
Understand the income statement and balance sheet, and key financial concepts such as earnings, economic profit, EBITDA, capital, equity, leverage.
Measure, and analyse, return on capital to reveal the economics of the business and the drivers of return and value.
Explore GAAP accounting standards, and the accounting policy choices that companies make, and their impact on the financial measures we use in analysis.
Understand the current issues in company reporting, these include amongst others: intangibles, impact and ESG reporting, the resilience of banks.
Develop your understanding of assets and liabilities, and how M&A impacts the financial statements.
Understand the nature of income, including measurement strategies, analysis of cashflow and prediction of financial distress.
Develop skills in financial modelling. Forecast and strategise for the future of a business by projecting its financial statements.
Learn how companies are evolving their balance sheet models in pursuit of economic value.
Chris Higson
Associate Professor of Accounting Practice
Academic Focus
Chris Higson’s serves as an expert witness in the areas of financial statements, financial performance and valuation, taxation, governance and regulation. He comments on financial matters on television, radio and in the international press.
Experience
Chris Higson has advised on financial performance in many of the world’s leading industrial and financial companies. He is a member of the oversight board of a UK investment company and has been involved in creating several new businesses, including a consultancy advising governments and financial institutions on the value of their information assets, and a media start-up. He has had several non-executive roles for the UK Government, as a member of the UK’s Industrial Development Advisory Board, the Regional Growth Fund panel, in the UK Green Investment Bank and the British Business Bank.
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Certificate in Finance
This programme can also be taken as part of the Certificate in Finance. Gain the knowledge and tools to build expertise in finance. Customise your learning by selecting four courses from our extensive, world-class portfolio.
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The fee for the programme is £8,500.*
The programme fee covers all required study materials, programme activities, as well as refreshments and most meals. It also includes access to a well-appointed gym with a swimming pool. It does not include accommodation.
We offer a 25% discount for London Business School Alumni and for those who complete four eligible Certificate in Management or Finance programmes.
For more information on what the programme fee covers, please speak to our Client Relationship Manager.
*Fees are subject to change
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