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Developing Financial & Commercial Awareness

3 hours eLearning
What you are going to learn

Course Outline:

Intended audience:
PSC and SQE Trainees

Format:
eLearning

Duration:
3 Hours

Objective:
On completion of this course, delegates will be better able to:

  • Review their knowledge and understanding of the importance of and relationship between the financial statements (the income statement, the statement of financial position and the statement of cash flow)

  • Understand the form, content and legal requirements of the annual report and accounts 

  • Understand the role of the directors

  • Appreciate the need to increase their knowledge and understanding of financial information and awareness to support the aims and objectives of their commercial clients.
Topics:

Accounting Principles and Accounting Standards
  • Principles and Accounting Policies
  • Development of Accounting Standards.

The Principal Financial Statements and Shareholder Return
  • The Financial Statements – the Income Statement, the Balance Sheet and the Cash Flow Statement
  • Shareholder Return.

The Key Responsibilities of the Board of Directors

The Form, Types and Requirements of Corporate Accounts
  • Legislative requirements for Annual Company Reports and Accounts
  • An introduction to the Next PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2020
  • Management Accounts and Sources of Other Financial and Contextual Information.

Taxation and Business Valuation
  • Company Taxation
  • Business Valuation.
COURSE CREDITS

The Fresh Team

Andrew Dines
Subject Matter Leader
Andrew is a Fresh Trainer, Coach and Course Designer. He created this course as an Instructor Lead Training (ILT) course. Andrew is a qualified lawyer and has an MBA in legal practice.
Bill Cooper
Course Designer
Bill is the MD of Fresh, a Coach and Digital Learning Expert.  He converted this course to  eLearning. He designed the Fresh Unity system.  He has an MBA and post graduate diplomas in Finance, Digital Marketing and Learning Technologies.
Colin Harrison
Design & Production 
Colin is the Head of Graphic Design and Media Production.  He  produces our eLearning courses.    After qualifying as an architectural draftsman, he has combined a career of teaching graphic design with producing commercial design projects.