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Corporate Financial Planning, Budgeting & Control

Venue : Doha
Start Date : 25/01/2026
End Date : 29/01/2026

Course Objectives:

• Evaluate the various methods of finance and make successful capital investment decisions
• Develop effective corporate financial plans aimed at maximising return and minimising risk
• Prepare, manage and control budgets to support the corporate financial plans
• Identify and manage financial risk effectively
• Measure and manage performance effectively
• Create opportunities for your personal development and increased financial awareness

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Financial Decision-makers
• Professionals acting upon the financial decisions of others
• Analysts
• Managers involved in planning and decision-making
• Financial Planner
• Individual with very basic financial knowledge.
• Individual with ambitions to work in finance related fields.
• Junior Managers involved in risk managements
• Managers and those with financial responsibilities

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

• Day 1
• Corporate Financial Planning

• Strategic Planning
• The Objective of the Firm – Meeting Shareholder & Stakeholder Objectives
• Agency Theory – The Relationship between Shareholders & Management
• Creative Accounting and the Case of Enron
• Financial Management & Financial Planning – The Scope, Role & Responsibilities of Financial Management
• Preparing a Financial Plan – The Master Budget
• Forecasting Future Cash-flows and Financial Modelling
• Time Series Analysis, Correlation & Regression

• Day 2
• Financing the Plan

• Sources of Finance – Long Term & Short Term
• Evaluation of the Types of Finance - Equity vs. Debt Finance
• Hybrid Finance & Financial Engineering
• The Dividend Decision
• The Cost of Capital and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
• Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
• Accounting Rate of Return (ARR)
• Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR) Capital Rationing & Payback

• Day 3
• Preparing & Managing Budgets to Support the Financial Plans

• Definition of Budgets, the Budgetary Process and Budgetary Control
• Types of Budgets-Fixed, Flexible, Incremental and Zero Based
• The Purpose / Benefits & Problems / Limitations of Budgets
• Setting / Implementing Effective Budgets - Eliminating the Problems
• Responsibility Accounting and Absorption Costing
• Activity-Based Budgeting / Costing (ABB, ABC)
• Variance Analysis, Cost Behaviour, Break Even Analysis & Sensitivity / What If Analysis
• What-If Analysis combined with Du-Pont Analysis

• Day 4
• Managing and Controlling Cash Flow to Support the Financial Plan

• Cash vs. Profit & The Cash Conversion Cycle
• Calculating and Managing the Cash flow Cycle
• Cash Flow Ratios
• Working Capital
• The Cost of Maintaining Working Capital
• Maintaining the Optimum Level of Working Capital
• Working Investment Ratios
• Preparing a Monthly Cash Flow Forecast

• Day 5
• Managing Financial Risk

• Risk Management & Types of Risk
• Identifying Risk – SWOT Analysis
• The Major Quantitative & Qualitative Risks Facing Companies
• Establishing a Risk Management Strategy
• Financial Risk Management & Hedging Techniques
• Managing Exchange Rate & Interest Rate Risk
• Derivatives-Forwards, Futures, Options & Swaps
• Risk Management Glossary of Terms