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This title was first published in 2002took their management team rather by surprise. Since their start-up, four years ago, everyone has been working hard to keep up with the increasing pace of new orders. At today's management meeting Sharon Bentley, the company's management accountant, drops a bombshell. The Bank has asked for a thorough review of the company's trading activities before they can sanction any further increase in the overdraft facility.' From the opening session, Training for Financial Awareness presents a scenario with which any manager can empathize. The manual provides the trainer with a rigorous, professional and yet fun resource to teach managers the basics of the financial processes. As the story of Creative Kitchens unfolds, so the accompanying exercises enable the participants to discover more of the financial jigsaw. The eight free-standing sessions, a total of 29 activities, include exercises both on compiling and using financial data.
Contents
Part I General Introductionsynopses; Glossary. Part II The Sessions: Session 1 What's This Business All About? Using a SWOT Analysis To Find Out: Creative Kitchens Ltd - its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Session 2 Finding Out Where The Money's Gone: How the money flows in and out; Last year's profit; What does the Profit and Loss Account show about our performance? Session 3 So You've Made a Profit? What Else Does The Profit and Loss Account Tell You? Which profit is the real profit?; More sales make us more money, don't they?; What does the Profit and Loss Account show about out costs?; What do we do now? Session 4 Have You Been Increasing Your Worth? What the Balance Sheet Tells You: What do we own and who paid for it?; What the last four years should have told them; How secure is the business? Session 5 What's Happened To The Flow of Money? Using Ratios To Find Out: Where has all the money gone?; Measuring the flow of money; How well are we using the money?; Using the pyramid of ratios. Session 6 Ratios Can Save Money and Make You More Profit: Where has all the profit gone?; Where have all the extra costs come from?; Where's the Work in Progress hiding?; Why so many Finished Goods?; Accounting policies need to be understood; Presentation of progress to the Managing Director. Session 7 Are Your Costs Behaving Themselves?: But surely a cost is just a cost?; The way costs behave; Labour costs should add value; Deviation isn't always a crime. Session 8 How The Figures Can Help You Make Better Marketing Decisions: How debtors dam up the cash flow; What should we do with the Overheads?; Prices, profits and breaking even; Sensitivity, or how break-even analysis can take away the pain.
