Finance, Accounting & Budgeting training courses
Read the numbers with confidence, from budgeting and reporting to financial strategy.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Financial Accounting Fundamentals
A solid grasp of accounting principles underpins every finance role. This programme covers the double entry system, the main financial statements, and the concepts needed to record and interpret financial transactions accurately.
Budgeting, Forecasting and Cost Control
Good budgets turn strategy into a financial plan and give managers a tool to control spending. This course covers how to build realistic budgets, forecast performance, and keep costs under control through the year.
Financial Statement Analysis
Financial statements tell a story to those who know how to read them. This course teaches how to analyse accounts using ratios and trends to assess the health, performance, and prospects of an organisation.
Management Accounting for Decision Making
Management accounting supplies the numbers that guide day-to-day and strategic decisions. This programme covers costing, budgeting, and analysis techniques that help managers choose between options with confidence.
Corporate Finance and Investment Appraisal
Deciding where to invest scarce capital is one of the most important tasks in finance. This course covers the tools used to value projects and companies and to make sound financing and investment decisions.
Cash Flow and Working Capital Management
Profitable businesses can still fail if they run out of cash. This course focuses on managing cash flow and working capital so that the organisation can meet its obligations and fund its operations reliably.
International Financial Reporting Standards
IFRS governs how listed and many other organisations report their results. This course explains the main standards and how to apply them, giving finance staff the confidence to prepare and interpret compliant accounts.
Fundamentals of Taxation
Tax affects almost every business decision and mistakes can be expensive. This course provides a working knowledge of the main taxes, how they are calculated, and the obligations businesses must meet.
Fraud Detection and Financial Controls
Strong internal controls deter fraud and protect organisational assets. This course helps finance and audit staff recognise fraud risks, spot warning signs, and design controls that reduce the chance of loss.
Financial Modelling in Excel
A well built model turns assumptions into insight and supports better decisions. This hands-on course teaches how to design clear, reliable financial models in Excel that others can trust and use.
Public Sector Financial Management
Managing public money carries particular rules and expectations around accountability. This course covers budgeting, reporting, and control in the public sector, with emphasis on transparency and value for money.
Credit Risk and Debt Management
Extending credit fuels sales but also creates risk of non payment. This course covers how to assess credit risk, set sensible terms, and manage collections so the business protects cash without losing customers.
Cost and Value Engineering
Cutting cost without harming quality requires structured analysis, not guesswork. This course teaches methods to understand where cost comes from and how to remove waste while protecting the value customers care about.
Treasury and Risk Management
The treasury function manages the money the business relies on and the financial risks it faces. This course covers liquidity, funding, and the management of interest rate, currency, and other financial risks.
Finance for Non Financial Managers
Managers outside finance make decisions with financial consequences every day. This course removes the mystery from financial statements and budgets so that non specialists can read the numbers and manage their area profitably.
Advanced Financial Reporting and Consolidation
Groups of companies face complex reporting requirements that go well beyond single entity accounts. This course covers consolidation, business combinations, and the advanced reporting issues that senior finance staff must handle.
Financial Controls and Segregation of Duties
Most losses inside finance teams happen where one person could complete a transaction from start to finish. This course covers designing controls that hold in a small team as well as a large one.
Accounts Payable and Receivable Management
The efficiency of the payables and receivables functions has a direct effect on cash and relationships. This course covers how to run both processes accurately, control risk, and keep suppliers and customers satisfied.
Zero Based Budgeting and Cost Optimisation
Building a budget from the ground up forces managers to justify every cost rather than roll forward the past. This course teaches the zero based approach and how to use it to challenge spending and free up resources.
Financial Planning and Analysis
The planning and analysis function turns raw numbers into forward looking insight for leaders. This programme develops the forecasting, analysis, and communication skills needed to guide business performance.
Grant and Donor Fund Accounting
Managing grant and donor money brings strict rules on how funds are used and reported. This course covers the accounting, budgeting, and reporting practices that keep organisations compliant and donors confident.
Revenue Assurance and Billing Integrity
Organisations routinely deliver services they never bill for, or bill at the wrong rate, and never discover it. This course covers how revenue leaks between delivery and collection, and the controls and reconciliations that find the money already earned.
Cost Accounting and Product Costing
Pricing and product decisions are only as good as the costing behind them. This course covers how costs are captured, allocated and absorbed, and where conventional costing quietly misleads decision makers.
Deferred Tax Computation and Disclosure
Deferred tax is the adjustment most often got wrong, because it is prepared once a year by whoever is free and rarely reconciled to anything. This course covers computing it properly.
Fraud Detection and Forensic Accounting
Occupational fraud is usually discovered by accident rather than by control. This course covers the schemes that actually occur, the data patterns that expose them and how to investigate without destroying evidence or exposing the organisation.
Tax Compliance for Business
Tax errors are expensive and usually procedural rather than technical. This course covers the returns, deadlines and record keeping a business must manage, and the common mistakes that lead to assessments and penalties.
Impairment Testing of Assets
Impairment is where optimism meets the accounts, and a test built to produce the answer management wants will not survive an auditor or a downturn. This course covers doing it defensibly.
Capital Budgeting and Investment Decisions
Capital decisions commit money for years and are often made on payback alone. This course covers cash flow forecasting for projects, discounting techniques and the risk analysis that should sit behind a capital decision.
Bookkeeping to Trial Balance
Reliable accounts start with correctly recorded transactions. This course takes participants from source documents through the ledgers to a balanced trial balance, with the reconciliations that catch errors early.
Financial Governance for Non Profit Organisations
Donor funded organisations must show that money went where it was promised. This course covers fund accounting, donor conditions and the reporting and controls that keep an organisation fundable.
Working with External Auditors
Audits run long and cost more when the finance team is unprepared. This course covers what auditors need, how to prepare the file and how to handle findings and adjustments constructively.
Capital Expenditure Control and Reporting
Capital budgets are approved annually and then spent against decisions made months earlier. This course covers controlling capital expenditure through the year, tracking commitments and reporting the true position rather than the invoiced one.
Payroll Accounting and Reconciliation
Payroll errors damage trust immediately and create tax exposure quietly. This course covers processing payroll correctly, reconciling it to the ledger and meeting statutory submission duties.
Activity Based Costing Implementation
Conventional overhead allocation quietly cross subsidises products and customers, hiding which ones actually make money. This course covers implementing activity based costing without building something too complex to maintain.
Financial Analysis of Business Proposals
Managers are asked to approve proposals whose numbers they cannot test. This course covers interrogating the financial case behind a proposal and finding the assumption that carries the whole thing.
Lease Accounting under IFRS 16
Leases that once sat in a note now sit on the balance sheet, which moved gearing and covenants for organisations that had not read the contracts carefully. This course covers getting the numbers right.
Interpreting Management Accounts
Managers receive monthly accounts they skim and rarely question. This course covers reading a management pack properly, testing the numbers and asking the questions that change decisions.
Transfer Pricing and Intercompany Transactions
Transactions between related companies attract scrutiny because they can move profit between jurisdictions. This course covers setting and documenting intercompany prices defensibly.
Financial Controls for Small Organisations
Small organisations cannot segregate duties the way textbooks assume, which is why they lose money quietly. This course covers building workable controls with very few people.
Budget Preparation and Negotiation
Budget rounds reward whoever argues best rather than whoever needs the money most. This course covers building a budget case that is credible and defending it in the negotiation.
Cash Handling and Treasury Operations
Physical cash creates loss and safety risk that electronic payment does not. This course covers handling, moving and reconciling cash with controls that protect both money and staff.
Grant Application and Proposal Budgeting
Grant budgets are scrutinised line by line and later audited against actual spend. This course covers building a budget that wins funding and can be delivered without breaching conditions.
Fixed Asset Accounting and Depreciation
Fixed asset registers drift from reality and depreciation policies get applied without thought. This course covers accounting for assets from acquisition through revaluation to disposal.
Cost Estimating for Manufacturing
Quoting below cost wins work that loses money, and quoting blind loses work that would have been profitable. This course covers estimating manufacturing cost from drawings and specifications.
Financial Close and Month End Discipline
Month end runs long because the same problems recur and tasks depend on each other in ways nobody mapped. This course covers shortening the close without weakening control.