Every financing choice a company makes — how it funds a new asset, whether it leases or buys, how it treats an intangible cost — echoes through its financial ratios for years afterward. The Financing Decisions and Long-Term Asset Management Training Course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy puts that link front and center, using interactive, "learning by doing" exercises to show how financing and asset decisions shape an organization's financial position.

Participants examine how accounting and reporting systems track long-term commitments day to day, working alongside academics from the accounting department who run applied sessions at the end of every module. The course also reinforces the double-entry fundamentals behind these decisions, making it a solid stepping stone toward advanced study in financial management.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Assess how financing and expenditure decisions move a company's financial statements and ratios.
• Handle the accounting treatment of intangible assets and know when their cost can be capitalized.
• Apply accounting concepts, the accounting equation, and accounting rules to record and adjust transactions.
• Prepare, analyze, and reconcile financial statements and account books.

Who Should Attend

Arab British Fellowship Training Academy designs this course for professionals working in or with:

• Central banks and supervisory agencies.
• Commercial and investment banks, plus housing and savings associations.
• Investment funds, brokerage firms, and stock exchanges.
• Insurance companies and multinational corporations.
• Accounting firms, consulting and law firms, and rating agencies.
• Multilateral financial institutions.

Module 1: Financing Decisions and Their Financial Impact

• How financing and expenditure decisions move a company's financial statements and ratios.

Module 2: Accounting for Intangible Assets

• Handling intangible assets from a cost-expenditure perspective.
• Conditions for capitalizing intangible assets.

Module 3: Core Accounting Building Blocks

• Accounting concepts and the accounting equation.
• Accounting rules for recording transactions.

Module 4: Adjusting, Reporting, and Reconciling

• Adjusting and correcting commercial books.
• Preparing and analyzing financial statements.
• Reconciling account books.