Every major decision inside a company — whether to fund a new project, how much debt to take on, which markets to enter — eventually comes down to a financial management judgment call. Get that judgment wrong and even a technically sound business idea can drain capital instead of building it.

This course, delivered by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, builds that judgment from the ground up: understanding risk and return, managing capital and its costs, running feasibility studies, and reading how financial markets and cross-border financial operations affect a company's choices, with practical applications throughout.

• Read the relationship between risk and return in financial decision-making.
• Manage capital budgeting, capital structure, and financial leverage.
• Run feasibility studies for new projects before committing capital.
• Make long-term financing decisions, including debt and equity choices.
• Understand how financial markets, investment banks, and money creation affect firms.
• Apply financial management principles across cross-border operations.

Target Audience

• Financial department managers and finance staff.
• Business owners and executives.
• Anyone involved in capital, investment, or financing decisions.

Module 1: Financial Management Foundations

• An integrated approach to financial management
• Market, facilities, prices, costs, and taxes
• Key financial statements and terminology

Module 2: Risk, Return, and Time Value of Money

• The relationship between risk and return
• Time value of funds
• Stocks, bonds, and their evaluation

Module 3: Capital Management and Cost of Capital

• Ways of managing capital and distributing profits
• Methods of balancing capital and calculating its cost
• Financial leverage and capital formation

Module 4: Feasibility Studies and Long-Term Financing

• Conducting feasibility studies for projects
• Making decisions on long-term financing and long-term debt
• Alternative finance planning

Module 5: Capital Markets and Investment Banking

• Ordinary stocks and operations of investment banks
• Benefiting from financial market operations
• Money creation and its link to financial markets

Module 6: Financial Management Across Borders

• Financial management processes among countries
• Analysis, planning, financial control, and forecasting
• Practical applications and exercises