Business Owners Financial Self-Study Package
Take Control of Your Business Finances – On Your Terms
Running a business means making smart financial decisions, but that does not require a degree in finance. The Business Owner’s Financial Self-Study Package is designed to give you the essential knowledge and tools to understand, manage, and grow your business’s financial health with confidence.
This self-paced learning bundle includes six focused, easy-to-follow courses created for business owners who want practical financial skills without the jargon.
The following self-study courses are included in this package:
Basic Understanding of Financial Statements
- Introduction to Financial Statements and the importance thereof
- Statement of Comprehensive Income
- Statement of Financial Position – Balance Sheet
- Cash Flow Statement
- How to read Financial Statements
- Practical Examples and Calculations
Company Compliance
- Department of Labour – When and How to register and for what
- UI-8 – What this form is for and what to do with it
- UI-19 – What this form is for and what to do with it
- Staff Files – Relevant documents needed to keep in a staff file
- Staff Payslips – When to supply an employee with a payslip and what information is needed to include
- Salaries & Wages – How to calculate pro rata salary, bonus, leave and sick leave
- Staff Leave – How staff leave works and how to calculate unpaid leave
- Leave – How annual leave works and how to calculate to pay out
- CIPC – Annual return requirements and how to ensure that the company does not get deregistered because of failure to renew
- Personal Income Tax – The company’s responsibility in terms of staff personal income tax as well as informing staff of their responsibility to submit their own income tax
- Workmen’s Compensation – When to register for Workmen’s compensation, and how it works.
- PAYE, UIF & SDL – Relevant deductions from staff salaries and submissions to SARS. (EMP201 Submissions)
- IRP5’s and IT3’s – Issuing of IRP5’s and IT3’s and when required (EMP501)
Finance for Non-Finance Individuals: Budgeting and Cashflow Forecasting
- What time horizon to consider when budgeting and time value of money considerations
- What goes into a budget and what shouldn’t (incl. tax liabilities, VAT, PAYE, provisional tax)
- How to track the effectiveness of a budget and how to update it
- What to do if things don’t go as planned
- Financial risk
- How to raise alternative financing (sale-and-leaseback)
- Rearrangements on financial obligations
Financial Statements Ratio Analysis
- Easy to follow Video Presented Modules by an experienced practicing Accountant
- Comprehensive Downloadable Notes for each Module
- Powerful Business Health Analyser Workbook
- Online Self-tests and Assignments
- Technical Support for all online Access Queries
- Email Support for all Content Queries from a professional accountant
- Also a Powerful Business Health Analyzer Workbook to easily calculate:
- Profitability
- Cash Flow Generation
- Asset & Working Capital Management
- Operational Efficiencies and Productivity of Employees & Assets
- Ratio analysis, including EBITDA
- Operational ratios
- Financial ratios
Loans and Their Consequences
- An overview of each of the new sections that have been added to the Income Tax Act
- A refresher on the Interest Withholding Tax
- A reminder of some of the pitfalls for Trusts with regards to interest
Manage Cash Flow and Profit
Part 1: Introduction to profit and cash flow - why they are so important
Part 2: Converting sales into profits
Part 3: Converting profits into cash
Part 4: Summary and exercise
All Included:
- Video presented courses
- Downloadable course material
- Certificate of training
- Optional assessments
- SAICA, SAIBA, ACCA, IACSA, IRBA, SAIT Accredited - 24 verifiable CPD hours (4 per session)

