Week 1. The Basic Building Blocks
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Introduction & Course Navigation (5:46)
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Lessons Learned from 20 years driving strategic improvement projects (12:01)
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What is Shareholder Value (15:12)
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The Three Elements comprising The Financial Statements (6:28)
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The 3 Characters. Vanity, Sanity & The King (7:51)
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The Income Statement aka The Money Making Machine (6:04)
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The Balance Sheet aka The Wealth Creation Engine (9:36)
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The 5 Chapter Story Hidden in the Numbers (12:18)
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The 5 Chapter Improvement Analysis of a F100 company (15:55)
Week 2 Decoding the Numbers
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The Money Making Machine
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- Vertical and horizontal analysis (20:49)
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- Its time to build your project (6:23)
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- What your story telling you
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- Operating cost management - fixed and variable costs (23:55)
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- Business unit analysis (46:39)
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- Break Even and targeting tool
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The Wealth Creation Engine
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- Introduction to the balance sheet
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- The components to the balance sheet (17:10)
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- Transforming the balance sheet into the wealth creation engine (27:45)
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Building the Treasure Map
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Case Study of a Treasure Map in Action (15:55)
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Key Components of Working Capital
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The significance of having projects to improve working capital
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The Hunger Measure
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Funding & Structure
Week 3 Cash is King
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The distinction between Profit & Cash
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The cash at bank dilemma
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Depreciation & Amortization concepts
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The secret to calculating cash (36:33)
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The Easy Way to Calculate Cashflow
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Cash & Working Capital
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How Cash is Created & Destroyed
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Cash Gross Profit compared with Income Statement Gross Profit
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Good Debt versus Bad Debt
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The role of debt and how it impacts cash and risk
Week 4 Using The Business Health Test Insight Engine
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Loading Your Numbers into The Insight Engine (4:26)
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Creating the data loading template in the software (1:39)
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• Income statement data entry (8:04)
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• Balance sheet data entry (8:44)
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Preparing the 5 Chapters of the Financial Story (23:59)
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Communicating the Story
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What if Analysis
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Case Study --a Financial Interrogation
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Evaluating an Acquisition
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Evaluating a Business Unit (45:37)
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How to identify Strategic Improvement Projects
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Building an Improvement Agenda
Week 5 Documenting Your Own Story
Bonus material
