Project Management Finance for Non-Accountants

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 17 – 28 Mar 2025 | 16 – 27 Jun 2025 | 08 – 19 Sept 2025 | 15 – 26 Dec 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates for groups and one on one sessions can be organized. 

Preamble

To succeed as a financial manager, knowledge of basic financial principles and the budgeting process is critical. This course transforms financial and accounting concepts into decision-making tools you can use successfully every day. You learn to apply the fundamentals of finance to improve budget management, increase potential profits and assess the financial viability of projects.

Expected Outcome

• Integrate financial concepts and policies into the project management decision and budgeting process
• Evaluate the financial viability of projects and activities through income statements and balance sheets
• Employ cash flow to analyze project status
• Calculate the cost of project activities
• Control project operations through effective budget management
• Communicate effectively with financial executives and staff

Target Group

Project Financial managers and anyone who wants to develop their knowledge of financial practices to improve their project managerial skills.

Course Outline

• Design And Assessment Of Project Financial Management System
• Periodic Reporting Using PMR
• Standards For International Project Finance
• Project Finance Report Format
• Project Accounting And Finance Reporting
• Project Auditing And Auditors Report
• Accounting Policies And Standards
• Financial Policies And Procedures For Capital Projects
• Internal Co-Ordination And Communication
• What Is Cash Flow Management?
• Cash Flow Management Format
• Strategies of Managing Cash Flow
• What Is Financial Performance Management?
• Financial Project Appraisal
• Final Reports
• Contract Performance Guarantees
• Risk Identification and Analysis
• Risk Analysis Process
• Risk Management Strategies
• Internal Controls
• Role of Auditors
• Monitoring And Evaluation Reports
• The Budgeting Process
• Types Of Budgets
• Effective Budgeting
• Asset Management
• Project Status Reporting
  
  

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates:  03 – 14 Feb 2025 | 05 – 16 May 2025 | 04 – 15 Aug 2025 | 03 – 14 Nov 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

Preamble

It is estimated that one in three organizations suffer from the effect of fraudulent activity, and recent developments in regulation mean that fraud can have significant consequences for managers and senior executives. Fraud can damage an organization’s reputation as well as reduce its profit and value. Many organizations only think about fraud risk when they have already been affected, but a more proactive approach is needed to prevent and detect fraud.
This one-week course provides an insight to the main practicalities relating to preventing and detecting fraud. The course begins by exploring the main types of fraud and the implications of fraud for an organization and its managers and senior executives. The course then becomes practical - focusing on how to spot signs of fraud, the methods involved in forensic investigations to quantify the impact of fraud, and the policies and procedures that should be put in place to prevent the occurrence of fraud.

Target Audience

This course is suitable for anyone with an interest in the mechanisms that businesses should employ to reduce the risk of fraud within the organization. The course is relevant for employees, managers and senior executives and assumes no previous knowledge. It is suitable for anyone wishing to understand risk management issues, the role of corporate governance and risk assessment within an organization.

Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Understand the motivation for people to carry out fraud.
• Recognize the warning signs of different types of fraudulent activity.
• Appreciate the consequences of fraud for the organization and its managers and directors.
• Recommend policies and procedures to combat fraud.
• Appreciate the need for good governance, strong leadership and sound risk assessment within an organization.
• Understand the role of experts including forensic accountants.
• Consider the legal implications of fraudulent activity.

Course Outline

Types of Fraud and the Dynamics and Implications of Fraudulent Activity

• Examples of fraud including theft of assets, bribery, money laundering and fraudulent financial reporting
• The causes of fraud – motivation and opportunity
• The consequences of fraud – quantifying losses and legal implications
• The responsibilities of directors and managers

Recognizing Signs of Fraud and Investigating Fraud

• Indicators of fraudulent activity
• Identifying “red flags” for different types of fraud
• Performing a fraud risk assessment
• Forensic investigations into fraudulent activity

Preventing Fraud – Risk Management and Internal Controls

• Building a strong governance structure and risk management function
• Designing and performing appropriate internal controls
• Monitoring the control environment
• Reviewing financial information
• The role of internal audit

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 20 – 31 Jan 2025 | 14 – 25 Apr 2025 | 14 – 25 Jul 2025 | 13 – 24 Oct 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks.

Customized dates for groups and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

PREAMBLE

The CPM course is tailored to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency in the acquisition and utilization of donor funds to finance development projects through the applied accounting and finance principles and techniques.

TARGET GROUP

Managers/Officers responsible for the management and accounting for donor funds.

COURSE OUTLINE

• Project Challenges, frame work and Project strategic thinking.
• Capital budgeting, Financial control and Financial analysis
• Negotiation in project finance, Project sequencing and sourcing of  finance
• Project risk management
• Sovereign debt and projects
• Conflict, time and stress
• Management in projects
• NEPAD, MDGs  and Poverty Management
• Best Practice Project finance Management
  
  

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 17 – 28 Mar 2025 | 16 – 27 Jun 2025 | 08 – 19 Sept 2025 | 15 – 26 Dec 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

Customized dates and one-on-one sessions can be organized.

PREAMBLE

The CPM course is tailored to develop knowledge about influence of macro economy on the equity and other financial markets. Various aspects analyzed include the monetary and fiscal policies, the external sector; productivity, investments and profits.

TARGET GROUP

Professionals in the financial services industry

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Measuring Nation's income- GDP, components of GDP, measuring GDP, Real and nominal GDP, GDP at factor or market prices, GDP deflator
2. Measuring cost of living- CPI, How CPI is measured,
3. Inflation
4. Interest rates
5. International Trade
6. Micro foundations of Macroeconomics: Sonnenschein–Mantel–Debreu theorem.
7. Labour and Goods Markets: Labour, leisure and productivity, Employment cycles and taxes, Trade in labour and goods markets
8. Capital and Goods Markets: Savings and investment, Capital policy and business cycles, Trade in physical capital markets.
9. Modern As–Ad: Dynamic analysis and AS–AD, Employment, Dynamic AS–AD solution methodology
10. Growth, Human Capital and Business Cycles: Exogenous growth, Human capital and endogenous growth, Explaining cycles and trends and International trade.
11. Risk, Banking and Assets: Incomplete markets and banking, Investment and banking productivity, Asset prices and finance.
12. Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Public finance, Taxes and growth Monetary theory and policy

REGISTRATION

To register, kindly fill the Seminar Registration Form and send it to us through:
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT

1. Fees Payment - All fees are payable strictly in advance 2 working days before the course starting date.
2. Cancellation Fee - Cancellation of any participant 5 working days before the start day of a course will incur a 20% cancellation fee.
   We regret that no cancellations will be accepted within 2 working days of a course, but substitutions may be made.