COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates:  03 – 14 Feb 2025 | 05 – 16 May 2025 | 04 – 15 Aug 2025 | 03 – 13 Nov 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

PREAMBLE

The CPM course is tailored to help you to succeed as a nonfinancial 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.

TARGET GROUP

Non-financial managers and anyone who wants to develop their knowledge of financial practices to improve their managerial skills.

COURSE OUTLINE

I. Introduction
1.1. Introduction to the Course
1.2. Financial Environment and Financial Activities of Public/Nonprofit Organizations

II. Basic Accounting and Budgeting Systems
2.1. Elements of Basic Accounting System
2.2. Elements of Basic Budgeting System

III. Analyzing Budgetary Documents
3.1. Variance Analysis
3.2. Case Study: TBA

IV. Analyzing Financial Statements
4.1. Structure and Elements of Financial Statements
4.2. Case Study: Balance Sheet Analysis

V. Financial Condition Analysis
 5.1. Conceptual Framework and Analytical Tools
 5.2. Case Study: Analyzing Financial Conditions of a Nonprofit Organization

VI. Financial Management in Broader Contexts
6.1. Fiscal Stress and Financial Management
6.2. Case Study: Managing Fiscal Stress in State and Local Governments

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 - Cancelletion 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 | 20 – 31 Oct 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

Preamble

This 2 weeks workshop provides an excellent introduction to Project Management and a fast track to understanding the roles and processes that ensure Project success.

Target Groups
• Business and Technical professionals who are required to understand the principles of accounting in project management.
• Administration staff that are required to understand the context of project management within the organization.
• Project team members
• Project accountants
• Senior managers
• Project managers and coordinators
• Project officers

Course Outline
• Design And Assessment Of Project Financial Management System
• Standards For International Project Finance
• Project Finance Report Format
• Project Accounting And Finance Reporting
• 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
• Internal Controls
• Monitoring And Evaluation Reports
• The Budgeting Process
• Types Of Budgets
• Effective Budgeting
• Asset Management
• Project Status Reporting

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.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 06 – 17 Jan 2025 | 07 – 18 Apr 2025 | 14 – 25 Jul 2025 | 13 – 24 Oct 2025

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

Preamble

The 2 weeks course is structured to help participants acquire skills and knowledge to enable the implementation of quality projects, in time and within budgetary constraints. A fundamental background on the project management key performance indicators, concepts and practice of implementation, monitoring and evaluation will be established, whereby participants will be asked to relate their training to actual issues and experiences at their place of work. 

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

This course builds knowledge and skills in the planning and management of development projects and programmes. It is designed to deepen critical understanding of the strategies, processes, techniques and issues involved in taking ideas for development and turning them into practical realities with identifiable outcomes and benefits.
The course provides an excellent basis for conversion for those with interest and experience in projects for development. The focus of the course is on IT and sales projects but the underlying principles are applicable to all types of project across all sectors of the economy.
On completion of your course, you should be able to understand and examine critically:
• The discipline of project management, within an overall appreciation of the nature and purpose of projects.
• The principles and practice of project planning, design, preparation, and implementation techniques for projects in a development context.
• The theory and practice of management skills for project management, focusing particularly on 'hard' and 'soft' skills for successful project implementation

COURSE OUTLINE

The overall objective of this course is to enhance the knowledge, understanding and skills of participants in the concepts of project management implementation. The following topics will be covered:

• The Concept of Project Management
• Participatory Project Planning (Including Logical Framework Approach)
• Project Implementation ( Including Resource Allocation, WBS And Scheduling)
• Project Activation & Operation
• Approaches to Project Implementation
• Project Implementation Plan
• Factors Affecting Project Implementation
• Project Management Defined
• Characteristic of a good Project Manager
• Project Completion, Closure And Handing Over
• Project Leadership And Team Building
• Project Proposal Writing And Reporting
• Project Planning And Management Software – Ms Project Overview

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.

COURSE INFORMATION

Scheduled Dates: 15 – 26 Jan '2024 | 15 – 26 Apr '2024 | 15 – 26 Jul '2024 | 14 – 25 Oct '2024

Duration: 2 Weeks

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

Preamble

This course is designed to help participants acquire in-depth knowledge of project financing requirements. The course examines various project financing options and lenders' mindsets.

With renewed interests in stimulating growth in critical sectors of the economy, project sponsors, credit committee members and corporate finance managers are under increasing pressure for sound financial decision making. They must thoroughly understand the financial considerations and risk elements involved in project economics and financing.

Participants will learn how to establish "project bankability", perform sound investment evaluations and select appropriate financing options.

Course Outline

1. Introduction: Key issues in project finance and risk management
• Activity in the project finance market
• Factors driving the demand for project finance

2. An overview of crucial issues in project finance
• Commercial motivations for project finance
• Project finance vs. the financing of projects
• The critical issue in all project financings
• Risk and return
• Factors influencing financing techniques and the syndication process

3. Qualitative risk evaluation in project financing
• Country and political risk
• Understanding the project finance process

4. Assessing qualitative risks in a variety of projects.
Identification and assessment of the key risks
• Feasibility studies and review of operating assumptions forselected projects, are the assumptions realistic?
• Review of the key aspects of a summarised feasibility study

5. Assessing the financial viability

6. Building and sensitising the operating cashflow
• Useful Excel sensitivity functions
• Assessing the financial sensitivity of the assigned projects to key risks
• Key factors influencing the project IRR

7. Sources of debt financing in projects

8. Financial yardsticks used by investors: uses and limitations
• Project investment appraisal techniques
• Corporate cost of capital as a basis for evaluating project returns
• How equity investors seek to mitigate risk in project finance
• The trade-off between leveraging equity returns and the need to provide credit support
• Assessing the impact of operating relationships between the project sponsors and the project company on equity returns
• Subordinated debt vs. equity and factors influencing the choice
• Determining an exit route, including IPOs
• Extracting cash from the project company

9. Commercial issues in project finance documentation
• Structure of loan documentation
• Key covenants and potential complications
• Concession agreements
• Structuring off-take agreements
• dealing with market risk
• Choice of construction contract
• Completion and cost overrun guarantees
• Shareholder lock-ins
• Banking security
• Intercreditor issues

10. Why projects face difficulty
• Lessons from experience
• Typical reasons for failure
• Options for equity investors in problem projects and practical problems

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.