Advanced Understanding of Financial Statements Course
This comprehensive self-study course is designed to show the entrepreneur, managers, professionals, bookkeepers and other uses of financial statements, how to read and use key data from the financial statements, to understand profitability and cash flow of a business.
The course teaches the three main statements, Income Statement, Statement of Financial Position and Cash Flow Statement, to manage the cash flow cycle from purchases to banking the cash.
By completion of this course, you will be able to efficiently read the main financial statements, and using a number of key figures, develop a story line of the effectiveness of the business in generating sales revenue through to cash flow.
Topics Discussed:
- Introduction and definitions
- Statement of financial position
- Non-current assets
- Inventory
- Receivables & payables
- Taxation
- Equity & debt
- Income statement
- Cash flow statement
- How to read financial statements
- The Two Step Tango model
Presented by: Mr. Gavin Beretta (FCG (Acc), MBA - Group Financial Director)
Gavin has over 30 years’ experience (local and international) in both medium and large organisations, in which he provided financial leadership to various management teams and served on a number of boards, and currently over 10 years’ experience within the SME environment of South Africa. With strong experience in company valuations and operational finance, Gavin now manages financial and taxation services to business and professionals, both nationally and internationally, as Financial Director of the FinSolve Group of companies.
- Video presented course
- Downloadable course material
- Certificate of training
- Assessment (optional)
- SAIT Accredited (2 Verifiable CPD hours)

