Strategic Financial Management

by David Allen

Challenge your assumptions and think again about the role of accountancy in a constantly evolving world. Discover how the finance function can play a proactive role at a strategic level, focusing on the value of the business.

price £75+vat
cpd hours 4 CPD hours
access 120 days' access

This course will enable you to

  • Embrace the proactive role of a strategic financial manager
  • Consider the different drivers of change on the business environment
  • Explain how financial management differs from traditional accounting
  • Understand how financial management can help achieve your business objectives
  • Decide between alternative approaches to cash flows, and the likely impact on different stakeholders
  • Calculate net present values and explain the arithmetic of discounting and why its important for evaluating and monitoring investments
  • Understand how strategic financial management fits together in an integrative model

About the course

In a fast changing, dynamic and volatile world, accountants need to go beyond the accounting tradition of reporting on the past and become financial managers who can help organisations make sound business decisions that will influence the future. Do you have what it takes to make that shift?

Strategic Financial Management brings together financial management and strategic management and explains how good financial management can help both define and achieve business objectives. This course will challenge your assumptions and encourage you to think again about the role of accountancy in a constantly evolving world and help you play a proactive role at a strategic level.

We are proud to bring you a this updated version of a classic course from the original thinker who first defined the concept of Strategic Financial Management.

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Contents

  • Strategic management
    • The increasing rate of change
    • Management philosophy
    • Standing in the way of control
    • Control systems
  • Financial management
    • Financial management
    • Controlling financial management
    • Elements of control
    • Time and forecast relationships
    • Business objectives
    • Treasury and business aspects
  • Cash flow
    • Cash flow basics
    • Cash flow and stakeholders
    • Different viewpoints
    • Changing price levels
    • The flow of funds
  • Net present values
    • Academic unreality
    • The discount rate
    • Budgetary control
    • Pricing policy
    • Where do we start?

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Author

David Allen

Past President of CIMA and past Chairman of the Management Accounting Committee of IFAC.

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Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours4 unitshourshours
Access period120 days
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
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Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours21 units20 hours21 hours
Access period120 days
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
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Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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Keep your whole team up to date.

Access to this course
Total CPD unitshourshours800+ unitshourshours
Access period12+ months
Audit-proof CPD completion certificate
Immediate access to our entire CPD catalogue
Exclusive news and CPD every week plus monthly webinars, all year round
Account manager on hand to support your team's needs
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