CSFM COURSES

Single Subjects Certificates
1. Financial Accounting - International Accounting Standards

• Explain and evaluate the regulatory framework governing the preparation of financial statements and corporate reports
• Prepare financial statements for non-group enterprises;
• Identify and apply the correct treatment for transactions in accordance with International Accounting Standards (IASs);
• Analyze the position and performance disclosed by the financial statement of a non-group enterprise

2. Financial Reporting – International Accounting Standards

• Prepare financial statements for groups of undertakings for publications in accordance with International Accounting Standards (IASs).
• Evaluate accounting practice with particular reference to capital maintenance theory, as set valuation and disclosure, and the expression of economic substance over legal form.
• Evaluate recent developments under discussion to improve the regulation of financial reporting.
• Analyze and interpret financial statement in an international context.

3. Audit and Internal Review

• Framework
• Audit Planning
• Internal Controls
• Balance Sheet Audit
• Reporting
• Not for Profit Organizations

4. Audit and Assurance Services

• Audit Framework
• Audit Process
• Assurance and Audit Related Services
• Internal Audit and Out sourcing
• Social and Environmental Audits
• Reporting

5. Performance Management

• General Issues of Performance Management
• Planning and Decision Making
• Performance Measurement
• Performance Management

6. Business Information Management

• Information Systems and the Organization
• Business Systems, Systems Analysis and Business Case Development
• Using Information Competitively
• The Impact of Information Technology

7. Strategic Business Planning & Development

• Models of Strategic Management
• Strategic Analysis and Options
• Implementing Strategy
• Global Strategy

8. Forensic Accounting

• Introduction
• The Engagement
• Fraud Investigations and Fraudulent Financial Reporting
• Additional Services of the Forensic Accountant
• Valuation Issues

9. Finance

• The Finance Function
• Sources of Long Term Finance
• Sources of Short Term Finance
• Working Capital Management

10. Decision Making

• Decision Making Process
• Costing & Accounting System
• Investment Appraisal
• New Developments

11. International Marketing Strategy

• International Strategic Analysis
• International Strategic Planning
• International Strategy implementation & Control

12. Business Analysis

• The Strategic Framework & Environment
• Analyzing Competitors & Products
• Analyzing the Internal Organization
• Strategic Development Paths
• Evaluating Strategic Development Paths
• Formulating the Strategic Plan
• Strategy Implementation – Structure
• Strategy Implementation Culture & Change
• Corporate Governance and Organizational Control

Single Subjects Certificates
13. Risk Management

• General Risk Management
• Management of Financial Risk
• Corporate Governance

14. Systems and Project Management

• Contribute to the management of projects:
• Evaluate an organization’s information systems and recommend appropriate solutions;
• Recommend improvements to the control of organizational activities and resources;
• Advise management on the audit of systems and activities;
• Evaluate and recommend improvements in the management of quality.

15. Organizational Management

• Evaluate and recommend improvements to the management of organizations in an international context;
• Evaluate and recommend alternative structures for organizations;
• Apply human resource management techniques in the management of a finance department;
• Advise on the management of working relationships;
• Advise on the management of change.

16. Business Strategy

• Evaluate different approaches to strategy formulation;
• Evaluate the environmental influences on the organization and evaluate its position;
• Evaluate the role of management accounting techniques in a changing business environment;
• Evaluate strategic options and make appropriate recommendations;
• Evaluate performance measurement systems for an organization.

17. Information Strategy

• Identify how information supports business strategy;
• Evaluate the use of IS/IT to improve the competitiveness of an organization;
• Prepare a coherent plan to manage information;
• Identify the ways in which IS/IT is changing the nature and structure of the working environment.

18. Financial Strategy

• Evaluate and interpret the financial implications of strategies;
• Calculate, evaluate and recommend the value of an organization;
• Interpret the risks facing an organization and recommend risk-management strategies;
• Evaluate advanced investment proposals.

19. Managing Organizational Change

• Organizations in dynamic environments
• Planned change
• Change agents and their tool kits
  

Change management processes : -

• Entering and contracting
• Organizational Diagnosis and data collection
• Designing and implementing interventions
• Feedback and evaluation of change intervention
  

Developing a learning organization : -

• Strategy as a learning process
• Learning structures and systems
• Leadership, teams and the learning process
• Self-reflection and learning

20. Financial Information Analysis

• The capital market content
• Returns and valuation models
• Accounting-based valuation
• Financial statement analysis
• Analysis of profitability and growth
• Forecasting and valuation
• Risk analysis

21. Leadership Fundamentals

• The nature and importance of leadership
• Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
• Effective leadership behaviours and attitudes
• Leadership Style
• Contingency and Situational Leadership
• Power, politics and leadership
• Influence tactics of leadership
• Developing Teamwork
• Motivational and Coaching Skills
• Creative Problems Solving and Leadership
• Communication and conflict resolution skills
• Strategic leadership and knowledge management
• International and culturally diverse aspects of leadership
• Leadership development, succession and fellowship