Explain the importance of cash and working capital management, identify sources of short-term financing and use working capital ratios as performance indicators

Analyze financial statements to provide insights about financial performance and position

Advise on regulatory issues that may affect company strategy

This course prepares an apprentice for the requirements of participating in and completing their apprenticeship, including topics such as record keeping of related instruction classes and on-the-job learning experiences, professional communication, time management, goal setting, self-advocacy and emotional intelligence, supervisor interaction preparation, growth mindset and training plans, building strong relationships, feedback and tough conversations, workplace conflict, and workplace safety and ergonomics.

This course covers how technology and digitization continue to affect the role and transformation of the finance function. This segment covers such topics and prepares the apprentices to master skills in: • Finance function transformation • Finance business partnering • Data and analytics

This course covers the process of analyzing, planning and managing costs to support decision making and implementation of strategies. • Cost accounting • Budgeting and planning • Short-term decision-making

This course covers financial reporting considerations and related regulatory issues that provide the basis for preparing financial statements, methods to calculate taxation and explain its affects, usage of financial statements to gain understanding of short-term financing to improve the ability of the organization to create and preserve value. • Regulatory environment • Financial statements • Principles of taxation • Managing working capital

This course covers the process of developing organizational strategy to achieve competitive advantage, managing people performance to implement organizational goals, and implementing organizational goals through project management. • Organizational strategy • Leading and managing people • Project management

This course covers capital investment decisions to acquire the capacity to create value, how to manage costs using costing and cost driver analysis, how to manage and control the performance of organizational units along with considering risks and controls in the short, medium, and long term. • Cost competitiveness • Organizational performance • Pricing and capital investment decisions • Decision making and risk

This course covers financial reporting standards for preparing financial statements, financial statements analysis to provide insights along with other key concepts. • Advanced financial statements • Group reporting • Long-term financing • Finance statement analysis

This course covers the strategy process which includes analyzing the organizational ecosystem to diagnose opportunities and challenges to create value, as well as search for, develop and evaluate strategic options. • Competitive advantage • Strategy formulation • Strategic execution • Digital strategy

This course discusses ways to identify and evaluate organizational risks and their sources that can impede the implementation of strategy; it also evaluates the use of internal controls to manage organizational risks. • Risk oversight • Risk identification • Risk assessment • Internal control

This course covers financial objectives, investment, financing and regulatory issues that affect organizational decisions and strategies. • Financial objectives • Corporate finance • Regulatory compliance