Skills for Financial Analyst Course
Monday, February 23, 2026
Category:Accounting & Finance
3
Days
Dubai
9:00am – 4:00pm
Introduction
How do I become a certified financial analyst? A sound public sector financial management is essential for good governance, macro-economic stability, effective use of available funds. It includes mobilizing revenue, allocating public fund, and undertake public spending to ensure that necessary amenities are available to its citizens. The government must have the confidence of the people that they will get the necessary return for the money they have paid and there is no pilferage or waste.
The role of financial analysts in commercial organisations is equally important. Financial reports give a deep insight into the financial health of the company. They forecast future revenues and expenditures to establish cost structures and help develop the organisations budgets and projections. Financial analysts leverage strong accounting and compliance knowledge to analyse financial statements, historical financial information and market trends. With the increasing use of technology, one of the most common requirements for financial analysts is an understanding of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Objectives
Objectives of this course are to ensure that the participants:
- Understand the effectiveness of financial planning, its importance and impact on profitability
- Understand various sources of finance with their utilisation, based on cost of capital
- Based on a full appraisal, make sound investment decisions
- Obtain an overview of the financial statements and management reports to evaluate company’s performance
- Recognize concepts of analyses (horizontal/vertical)
- Understand how financial planning is affected by cost behaviour
- Provide an analytical results of single business units
- Identify which type of budget will suit the organization best
- Reduce the operating cycle by understanding the components of working capital
- Are equipped to manage and control budgets and forward plans
- Discover the advantages of an efficient E.R.P. system
- Recognize the best practices in financial management
Training Methodology
Solid State Training collaborative Certified Financial Analyst Course, will comprise the following training methods: Lectures, Seminars & Presentations, Group Discussions, Assignments, Case Studies & Functional Exercises. Like all our acclaimed courses, this program also follows the ‘Do-Review-Learn-Apply’ model, which is a unique way of training by Solid State Training.
Organizational Impact
Companies who nominate their employees to participate in this Skills for Financial Analyst Course can benefit the organisation in the following ways:
- Identify the merits of the corporate financial planning process in detail
- Align the planning process with the overall strategic plan and fiscal policy
- Plan development/capital expenditure with sound assumptions and funding needs
- Perform a good end-to-end investment evaluation to improve return on investment
- Understand how to calculate cost of capital as well as approximate fund requirements
- Ensure an inflow and outflow balance to preserve a strong liquidity position
- Assess financial statements and track performance in comparison with trends in the marketplace
Personal Impact
Upon completion of this course, individuals attending the course will be able to:
- Understand and apply key accounting concepts for financial planning
- Evaluate capital structure, understand equity and debt capital and calculate cost of capital
- Create sensitivity analysis after conducting investment appraisals
- Measure net cash flow for projects
- Formulate an Integrated Financial Model to prepare budgets
- Gain thorough understanding of cost behaviour and learn to prepare variance analyses
Managing Directors, Financial Controllers and CFO’s, Members of the Revenue Board, Internal auditors, Senior executives and members of finance department, Professionals aspiring to be Financial Analysts, Data analysts, Risk Officers.
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