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Accounting Entries, Prepare financial statements, Anlayse results, Make Budget and Forecasts, Business Plans, Valuation

What you will learn

Accounting Rules

Accounting Entries

Journal Entries

Prepare Financial Statements

Anlayse Financial Statements

Ratio Analysis

Accounting Policies and how they impact

how to Detect manipulations in financial statements

How to forecast revenue and expenses

make a budget for your business

business model canvas

how business model canvas is converted into a business plan

valuation of business

how to raise money in business

Description

A Complete Course for Startup founders, Business Owners, Executives, Accounting professionals to give them a complete understanding of accounting and financial concepts.

Understanding accounting and financial concepts are essential for understanding company performance and diagnose any problems you may have. Even though you may not do any accounting or financial management yourself, this course will help you understand everything you need to gain confidence in this subject.

Program Goals

● To equip the startup Founders with financial skills to project, plan and execute

● To support the founders to really dig down into the details of the financial models and projections which will be helpful for conversation with investors

●To receive customized feedback from the instructors to build in the financial consideration of the company

Course Topics and Outlines
● Understanding the fundamentals of Accounting & financial statements and how to draw them.

1. Fundamentals of accounting practices.

2. Types of Accounts and Financial Statements

3. Accounting Entries

4. Relationship between Profit & Loss / Balance Sheet and Cash Flow

5. Key Accounting Policies

a. Inventory

b. Fixed Assets

c. Capital vs operating expenses.

d. Revenue Recognition

e. Expenses Accounting

6. Accounting Control Practices

a. Receivable from customers

b. Advance / pre payments

c. Accruals and Provisions

d. Fixed Assets

e. Supplier Payments

7. Working Capital

8. Analysis Steps and Methods

● Analyzing financial numbers for making business decisions

A. Analyzing Financial Statements in Details.

B. Ratio Analysis

a. Why Ratio – Usefulness and Limitations

b. Profitability Ratio

c. Liquidity Ratios


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d. Working Capital

e. Asset Utilization

f. Return Ratios

g. Special Purpose

C. How to use Ratio analysis to understand ground reality in operations.

D. How operational decisions affect financial results.

E. Working Capital Management

F. Pricing Decisions

G. Capital Expenditure planning decisions

H. Using Financial Analytics Metrics for KPI management

I. Using financial numbers together with operational metrics

● Budgeting and forecasting and financial plan.

A. Why Budgeting / Forecasting / Planning is needed for business

B. Is it just a paper exercise?

C. How to make use of budgeting & forecasting.

D. Components of Budgets.

E. How to forecast and defend unforeseen future and able to defend it

● Deriving financial plan and blending with business models

· Business Model – Components

· how each business model component is represented in financial plan

· Interwind different components to make a complete business plan.

● Understanding the business value and do self-valuations

· What is Value??

· Value from different prospective.

· Different Methods of Valuation.

o Income Approach

o Cost Approach

o Comparable

· Inherent limitations and uncertainties of valuation models.

· How can we enhance value of our business?

· Share your experiences with valuation and how inventors value your startup

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Content

Introduction to Accounting (Fundamental Accounting of small business)

Accounting Fundamentals (Lecture-1.What is Financial Accounting)
Accounting Double Entry System and Fundamental Accounting Rules
Financial Accounting Process and Financial Statements Generates
Basic Accounting Equation and Four Financial Statements
Define Chart of Accounts and Classify the accounts
External and Internal Transactions with companies
Short Exercise to Confirm what we learned in this section

Accounting Policies

What are Major Accounting Policies need to be decided by companies
Depreciation Policies
Operational Fixed Asset Controls
Inventory Accounting and Controls
Revenue Accounting and Controls
Expenses Accounting and Working Capital

Master Concepts of Finance and Accounting

Financial Statement Analysis Objectives
Financial Analysis Methods in Brief
Ratio Analysis

Profitability

Gross Profit & Operating Margin Ratios
Net Profit & Expense Control Ratios
ClassRoom Discussion for some other expenses
use of Profitability Ratio to understand Copetitive advantage and business mode

Return Ratio

Return on Assets and FIxed Assets
Return on Capital Employed
Case Study Analysis of three telecom companies
Cautions for using return ratios on face value
Ratios which help to understand how efficiently assets are used
How we measure utlisation of assets not recorded in Balance Sheet

Liqudity Ratio

Liquidity Ratio to understand Risk inherent in companies
Long Term Liquidity Ratios

Operational Analysis

Financial Analysis Measure meant to understand efficiency in other operations
Summarise – Ratios use for operational analysis
Dupont Analysis to understand opportunities in optimising return on equity

Detecting Manipulation

Detecting Manipulation in accounts – Fake Sales
Detecting Manipulation – Wrong Depreciation and others
Pricing Decisions
How to make Capex Decisions

Financial and Operation Budgeting Business Plan for growth

Why Budget and Forecasts
Is budget planning a paper excercise
Operational and Financial Budget

Detail Budget Requirement

Components – Revenue Budgets
Components – Cost Budget-
Qualititative Aspects

Process of Making Budget

Process of Budgeting – Logical Steps
Revenue Budget – What Information we need to make revenue budgets
Example we used in Class to demonstrate a broad process in budget and planning
Cost Budget Process – Link from revenue and operational plan
Cost Budget Process – Other aspects

Understanding Business Model

Business Model Canvas – Brief Introduction
How does it begin and starts
Problems Solving Opportunities

Conponent of Business Model, Explaning Details

Customers and Value Proposition
Channels of Distribution and Customer Relationships
Revenue Streams and Key Resources
Key Activities, Partners and Cost

Case Study

Business Model of ALIBABA to explain different components
Business Model of IKEA Explained-
An Practical Example to Demonstrate how different compoents work in business mod

Basic of Business Plan

Business Plan Component – Exec Summary
Business Plan Component – Exec Summary-Key things
Maket Sizing Concepts and Financial Model to Calculate Market Access
Marketing Sizing Method
Rest of Financial Model and B Plan

Raising Money & Valuations

Recap of Previous classes
Traditional Capital Rasing
Startup Financing and Stages
Early Stage Financing – Own capital, crowdfunding and leasing
Early Stage FInancing – Angel Investing, VC Capital

Valuation Concepts

Why we need valuation and is it objective
Business Valuation Concepts
process of valuations and factors that affect valuations
Valuation Methods and Market Approach
Income Valuation Approach
Discounting rate and how we determine it
Other Methods of valuation and Consclusion