Corporate Finance

Objectives of the Corporate Finance Vertical

• Improve and strengthen overall financial position through credit enhancement recommendations.

  • Profits (underlying profitability)

  • Solvency (gearing)

  • Liquidity (cashflows)

  • Efficiency (capacity utilisation)

• Budgeting: determine and ensure sufficient funds for capital and working capital purposes

  • Short-term

  • Medium and long-term

• Identify drivers for increasing business valuation

  • Earnings approach (discounted cashflow of earnings)

  • Intangible assets

• Review the financial effects of selection of business model options

  • Market mix

  • Product mix

  • Client mix

  • Revenue model mix

• Identify funding gaps and design an appropriate funding structure to achieve optimal cost of capital.

MODULES COVERED

1. Financial Risk Profiling & Diagnosis: Identifying areas for improvement across the firm’s profitability, risk, liquidity and efficiency position – benchmarked against international standards.

2. Financial Modelling – Market mix, Client mix, Revenue mix & Product mix: Firms will have an overview of the business current mix and able to better strategise itself.

3. Periodic Budgeting: Mapping the firm’s resources against the different scenarios; best, base and worst case.

4. Fund Requirements & Design Analysis: Determining the types and duration of capital and working capital expenditure required.

5. Earnings Valuation (DCF) per company: CEO should know how much his/her firm is worth – just like valuing a property or self-worth!

6. Intangible Asset Valuation: CEO should know how much his/her firm is worth – just like valuing a property or self-worth!

7. Business Plan (Financial portion only or the whole sections): A business blueprint that the firm would be able to showcase to its stakeholders.