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课程名称：财务预测与报告 课程概述：本课程讨论了如何通过成本效益分析评估公共项目。学习者将了解利率和股票、债券价格的确定方式。课程还介绍了如何为工程成本中心制定部门预算以及为盈利中心编制预计财务报表。学习者将分析企业财务报表，以评估公司的财务健康状况，包括近期的环境、社会及公司治理（ESG）指标。 课程大纲： 1. **理解财务报表** 描述：投资决策往往基于公司财务表现，而这一表现通过财务报表进行反映。课程将研究三种财务报表：损益表、资产负债表和现金流量表，这三者共同提供了公司盈利能力、净值及现金管理的清晰图像。 2. **财务报表分析：比率分析** 描述：财务报表以绝对数字（如美元）向管理层和投资者传达公司财务表现，但相对表现（如毛利润与收入的比率）更加重要。比率分析是一种方法，可以帮助管理层进行年度比较及投资者公司间的对比，涉及流动性、盈利能力、债务管理和投资潜力等多个类别的比率。 3. **预算编制与预测** 描述：技术经理经常需要为项目团队、部门或产品线准备年度预算。这涉及未来成本的估算，在盈利中心的情况下，还需要预测未来收入。通过定性和定量技术的结合，可以使这些预测更为可靠。 4. **风险管理技术** 描述：对项目未来收入和成本的预测不可避免地涉及不确定性，而这种不确定性等同于财务风险——不确定性越大，风险越大。风险管理旨在通过在不同条件下评估项目估值，识别对风险贡献最大的变量，并制定计划来减少财务下行的可能性，从而减轻财务风险。 5. **可持续性报告** 描述：可持续性已成为企业运营和治理的重要考虑因素。现今，管理者关注公司的三重底线：同时衡量环境和社会影响以及财政表现。投资者对此也很感兴趣，因此，设定可持续性战略目标的公司现在报告其非财务表现，使投资者能够评估其在可持续性目标上的进展。
Name:Understanding Financial Statements
Description:Investment decisions are often based on a company’s financial performance, and such performance is captured in its financial statements. The three examined in this course are the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows. Collectively, these provide a clear picture of a company’s profitability, its net worth, and how it manages its cash.
Name:Analyzing Financial Statements: Ratio Analysis
Description:Financial statements inform management and investors about a company’s financial performance in absolute terms – dollars and cents. But it is often more valuable to understand performance in relative terms, such as gross profit relative to revenues, measured as a percentage. This makes it easier for management to compare one year to another and for investors to compare one company to another. Ratio analysis is the way this is done, and there are several categories of ratios that measure a company's liquidity, profitability, debt management, and investment potential.
Name:Budgeting and Forecasting
Description:Technical Managers are often tasked with preparing an annual budget for their project team, department, or product line. This involves estimating future costs, and in the case of a profit center, forecasting future revenues. Such forecasts can be made more reliable through a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques.
Name:Risk Management Techniques
Description:Forecasting future revenues and costs for a project invariably involves uncertainty, and such uncertainty equates to financial risk - the greater the uncertainty, the greater the risk. Risk management is about mitigating financial risk by assessing a project’s valuation under a range of different conditions, identifying the variables that most contribute to risk, and creating a plan to minimize the likelihood of any financial downside.
Name:Sustainability Reporting
Description:Sustainability has become an important consideration in how businesses operate and govern themselves. Managers today focus on their company’s Triple Bottom Line: measuring environmental and social impacts along with their financial performance. Investors are interested in this too, and in response, companies with sustainability as a strategic objective now report their non-financial performance – enabling investors to assess progress toward sustainability goals.
This course discusses how public projects are evaluated using cost-benefit analysis. Learners discover how interest rates and prices for stocks and bonds are determined. Techniques are presented on how to create departmental budgets for engineering cost centers and pro forma statements for profit centers. Learners then work with corporate financial statements to assess a company’s financial health, including recent measures of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). This course c
