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Certified Management Accountant Preparation - CMA2 AL Mawred Speciality Training

Certified Management Accountant Preparation - CMA2

Why Attend

This course is designed to give an overview of the main concepts covered under the CMA 2 exam. Relatively difficult topics are explained in simple terms and summarized in a way that makes the information easy to retain.

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Overview
Course Methodology

This course uses the Gleim learning system which includes the material in a hard copy book, loaded with hundreds of questions and their explanations, online questions and answers and an online exam rehearsal.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze financial statements using different performance metrics and financial ratios
  • Apply advanced profitability analysis including DuPont analysis
  • Define financial risk and return and calculate cost of capital
  • Explain current assets management and the different alternatives in raising capital
  • Demonstrate cost volume profit analysis, breakeven and marginal analysis, and pricing strategies
  • Calculate and apply the different techniques in evaluating capital and investing decisions, e.g. net present value, internal rate of return, payback period, etc.
Target Audience

All employees who wish to pursue the CMA certification and prepare for the exam. Also, all managers and staff who are involved in accounting and finance function in their organizations who wish to sharpen their skills in the field of financial decision making.

Target Competencies
  • Financial analysis
  • Capital budgeting
  • Cost volume profit analysis
  • Marginal analysis
  • Risk management
  • Investment decisions
Course Outline
  • Financial statement analysis
    • Basic financial statement analysis
    • Financial ratios
      • Liquidity, leverage, activity, profitability and market
    • Profitability analysis
      • Income measurement analysis
      • Revenue analysis
      • Cost of sales, and expense analysis
      • Variation analysis
    • Special issues
      • Foreign operations, inflation, and off-balance sheet financing
      • Impact of changes in accounting treatment
      • Accounting and economic concepts of value and income
      • Earnings quality
  • Corporate finance
    • Risk and return
      • Calculating return and types of risk
      • Relationship between risk and return
    • Long term financial management
      • Term structure of interest rates and types of financial instruments
      • Cost of capital and valuation of financial instruments
    • Raising capital
      • Financial markets and regulation
      • Market efficiency and financial institutions
      • Initial and secondary public offerings
      • Dividend policy and share repurchases
      • Lease financing
    • Working capital management
      • Working capital terminology and cash management
      • Marketable securities management
      • Accounts receivable management
      • Inventory management
      • Types of short-term credit and management
    • Corporate restructuring
      • Mergers and acquisitions
      • Bankruptcy and other forms of restructuring
    • International finance
      • Fixed, flexible, and floating exchange rates
      • Managing transaction exposure
      • Financing international trade
      • Tax implications of transfer pricing
  • Decision analysis
    • Cost volume profit analysis
      • Breakeven analysis
      • Profit performance and alternative operating levels
      • Analysis of multiple products
    • Marginal analysis
      • Sunk costs, opportunity costs and other related concepts
      • Marginal costs and marginal revenue
      • Special orders and pricing
      • Make versus buy
      • Sell or process further
      • Add or drop a segment
      • Capacity considerations
    • Pricing
      • Pricing methodologies
      • Target costing
      • Elasticity of demand
      • Product life cycle and market structure considerations
  • Risk management
    • Enterprise risk
      • Types of risk
      • Risk identification and assessment
      • Risk mitigation strategies and managing risk
  • Investment decisions
    • Capital budgeting process
      • Stages of capital budgeting
      • Incremental cash flows
    • Discounted cash flow analysis
      • Net Present Value (NPV)
      • Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
      • Payback and discounted payback
        • Uses and limitations of payback method
        • Discounted payback
    • Risk analysis in capital investment
      • Sensitivity and scenario analysis
      • Real options
  • Professional ethics
    • Ethical considerations for management accounting and financial management professionals
    • Ethical considerations for the organization
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