These interactive multimedia and internet based products boost on-the-job performance by teaching finance and business concepts and how they apply to the real world. Participants use simulated cases and ask questions of on-screen industry experts. Each program was developed in partnership with recognized industry experts who focus on what the user needs to know in order to be successful on the job. Continuing professional education credits (CPE's) are available.

Our courses include:

Introduction to Financial Accounting - The Language of Business
Provides practical, intuitive instruction on fundamental accounting concepts that help you:
• Understand fundamental accounting terminology
• Become an intelligent reader of financial statements
• Value, record and classify business transactions
• Assess how business decisions affect profits and liquidity


Financial Analysis and Decision-Making - Linking Business Decisions with Financial Results
Teaches users how to understand the consequences of business decisions as expressed in a firm's financial statements by:

• Analyzing corporate financial statements
• Reading between the lines to find out where the numbers come from and what they really mean
• Understanding how financial statements can be manipulated, misinterpreted and misused
• Applying fundamental financial and accounting concepts in a real-world business situation


Capital Raising Alternatives - A Comprehensive Guide to Debt and Equity Markets
Provides objective, comprehensive information on specific debt and equity instruments that will help you:

• Weigh the pros and cons of using specific capital raising products
• Prepare for meetings with board members, capital markets specialists and others
• Understand how deals in the market are structured and priced
• Understand the timing and sequence of activities involved in getting deals done
• Brush up on what's going on in the market


Foundations in Finance – Managing Capital to Create Value
Teaches how to estimate the value of proposed capital investments by using a capital expansion business case that helps you master the following core concepts:

• Projecting free cash flows
• Valuing an investment by choosing a discount rate, determining a project's ability to create value, and conducting sensitivity analyses
• Linking capital investment to company value by projecting a project's impact on capital structure and equity value, estimating debt capacity, and targeting a capital structure


Corporate Finance Advisor Provides in-depth coverage of applied corporate finance.

1. Operating Strategy - Valuing a Company
   Teaches users to analyze a firm's operating strategy, evaluate the impact of a strategic investment decision on company value, and the skills needed to:
   • Analyze and evaluate historical and projected operating cash flow
   • Use NPV and IRR methods to evaluate the financial merits of a proposed capital expansion
   • Identify the opportunity cost of capital and quantify debt and equity funding requirements
   • Estimate the pro forma effect of expansion on company value and shareholder value
   • Express the company's current and pro forma valuation in EBITDA
   • Anticipate how a revised operating strategy could attract the acquisition interest of a business buyer
2. Financial Strategy: Designing Capital Structure
   Teaches users to determine the appropriate capital structure and financing strategy, given a change in operating strategy and the skills needed to
   • Conduct a free cash flow projection within the context of a pro forma business combination
   • Estimate a base-case pro forma value of the combined business
   • Target a capital structure that corresponds well with the operating risk profile of the combined company
   • Choose a strategy for funding the debt portion of the capital structure
3. Ownership Strategy: Maximizing Shareholder Value
   Teaches users to evaluate business unit performance, develop strategies for under- performing operations, manage a firm's ownership profile and the skills needed to:
   • Evaluate the financial performance of business units by using an ROA–COC analysis
   • Evaluate the merits of divesting a poorly performing but vertically-integrated business unit
   • Evaluate how each business unit could be re-focused and re-positioned
   • Assess alternative strategies for divesting an integrated business unit
   • Asses how a revised operating strategy should affect ongoing financial and ownership strategies

Technical requirements:

CD-ROM
Windows 95 or NT 3.5x and 4.0
16MB RAM
16-bit Sound Blaster or compatible sound card with speakers